The Mass. Medical Industry Council elected four new officers and added five directors to its board, taking its total board membership to 28 seats.
The new officers elected to one-year terms include:
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The Mass. Medical Industry Council elected four new officers and added five directors to its board, taking its total board membership to 28 seats.
The new officers elected to one-year terms include:
Companies in the medical device arena see three ways to deal with a looming tax on medical devices, slated to start in 2013: Lay off workers, raise prices and lower costs.
One plank of Gov. Deval Patrick’s 2006 campaign was his support of the life science industry in Massachusetts. It seems that in his bid for re-election in the looming 2010 race he’s looking to cast himself as the life science governor once again.
A survey of 47 medical device manufacturers, ranging from pre-revenue firms to those with sales topping $100 million, indicates a sense of cautious optimism when it comes to the economy.
The survey, conducted by executive services provider Tatum LLC for the Massachusetts Medical Device Industry Council (MassMEDIC), polled device makers during the fourth quarter on a variety of business indicators. Most — more than 58 percent — said they expected conditions to improve during the last 60 days of the quarter. Nearly 35 percent reported improvement during the 30 days preceding the survey.
The Mass. Medical Device Industry Council is asking Sen.-elect Scott Brown to put his money where his mouth was during the campaign for the late Sen. Ted Kennedy’s seat on Capital Hill.
During his successful run against Mass. Attorney General Martha Coakley, Brown visited Zoll Medical Corp.’s Chelmsford, Mass., headquarters, where he spoke about his opposition to a proposed tax on medical device makers to help pay for healthcare reform.
During the campaign stop at Zoll, the Republican then-candidate told MassDevice that he planned to vote against the healthcare reform bill if elected.
MassMEDIC is making inroads across the pond.
The Massachusetts Medical Device Industry Council and one of its British counterparts, the Golden Triangle Partnership, inked a cross-promotion deal aimed at boosting the medical device industry’s profile in their respective clusters.
The deal is designed to “facilitate transatlantic investment and partnering by encouraging collaborations between each groups’ member companies,” according to a press release. “GTP and MassMEDIC will promote each other’s investment and partnering events to their respective members, as well as offer their members significantly reduced rates to each other’s signature events.”