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Medtronic launches 7-day infusion set for diabetes in Europe

April 14, 2021 By Sean Whooley Leave a Comment

Medtronic (NYSE:MDT) announced today that it launched the Medtronic Extended infusion set for diabetes in select European countries. Fridley, Minn.–based Medtronic touts the Extended infusion set as the first and only infusion set that a diabetes patient can wear for up to seven days, as most typically infusion pumps that deliver insulin to the body require […]

Filed Under: Business/Financial News, Diabetes, Drug Pumps, Drug-Device Combinations, Featured Tagged With: Medtronic

Medtronic has a serious recall of ICDs and CRT-Ds

April 12, 2021 By Chris Newmarker Leave a Comment

FDA has issued a Class I designation of a Medtronic (NYSE: MDT) recall involving 239,171 ICDs and CRT-Ds with potential battery life problems. The agency reported 444 complaints regarding the devices: Evera, Viva, Brava, Claria, Amplia, Compia, and Visia implantable cardioverter defibrillators (ICDs) and cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT-Ds) distributed from Aug. 31, 2012, to May […]

Filed Under: Cardiovascular, Featured, Food & Drug Administration (FDA), Recalls, Regulatory/Compliance Tagged With: ICD, Medtronic

AI-aided colon cancer tech gets FDA nod

April 12, 2021 By Sean Whooley Leave a Comment

Cosmo Pharmaceuticals announced today that it received marketing authorization for its GI Genius AI-based lesion detecting system. GI Genius is an intelligent endoscopy system that uses AI/machine learning to detect lesions in the colon such as polyps or suspected tumors in real-time during a colonoscopy, according to a news release. The device, which received FDA […]

Filed Under: Endoscopic, Featured, Food & Drug Administration (FDA), Health Technology, Imaging, Regulatory/Compliance, Software / IT Tagged With: AI, artificial intelligence, Colonoscopy, Cosmo Pharmaceuticals, FDA, Medtronic

MedTech 100 roundup: Industry roars back

April 12, 2021 By Sean Whooley Leave a Comment

In the blink of an eye, the medtech industry exited its spring slump and neared its all-time best performance levels. MassDevice‘s MedTech 100 Index offered signs of a rebound last week and has built on that momentum, registering a final tally of 109.39 points on April 9. That represents a 2.9% increase from the 106.26-point mark […]

Filed Under: Business/Financial News, Featured, Funding Roundup, Initial Public Offering (IPO), MassDevice Earnings Roundup, Mergers & Acquisitions, Wall Street Beat Tagged With: Better Therapeutics, Google, Hologic, INSIGHTEC, LumiraDX, MedTech 100 Index, Medtronic, Olympus, Outset Medical, Pixium Vision, Second Sight, Varian

Medtronic stent graft recall is serious

April 9, 2021 By Sean Whooley Leave a Comment

The FDA has deemed the recall of the Medtronic (NYSE:MDT) Valiant Navion thoracic stent graft system as Class I, the most serious kind. Medtronic’s Valiant Navion is designed to repair lesions of the descending thoracic aorta, using a long catheter to place the stent graft inside the aorta before it expands to fit within the aorta to […]

Filed Under: Cardiovascular, Catheters, Featured, Food & Drug Administration (FDA), Recalls, Regulatory/Compliance, Stent Grafts, Stents, Structural Heart Tagged With: FDA, Medtronic

Medtronic commits to helping people of color with diabetes

April 7, 2021 By Sean Whooley Leave a Comment

Medtronic (NYSE:MDT) announced today that it entered multiple partnerships to improve health equity for people of color living with diabetes. Fridley, Minn.-based Medtronic committed investments in partnerships with the American Diabetes Association (ADA) and the T1D Exchange, along with additional research efforts, to better understand and address such disparities, according to a news release. The […]

Filed Under: Business/Financial News, Diabetes, Drug-Device Combinations, Featured, Funding Roundup Tagged With: American Diabetes Association, Medtronic

Medtronic kicks off newly expanded R&D center in India

April 7, 2021 By Chris Newmarker Leave a Comment

Medtronic (NYSE:MDT) today announced the inauguration of its newly expanded 150,000 ft2 Medtronic Engineering and Innovation Center (MEIC) in Hyderabad, India. The Fridley, Minn.–based medical device giant is spending $160 million over five years to turn Hyderabad into its largest R&D center outside the U.S. Medtronic expects the number of employees at the facility to […]

Filed Under: Business/Financial News, Featured, Research & Development Tagged With: India, Medtronic

Medtronic can’t shake suit over FDA clearance of spinal devices

April 6, 2021 By Nancy Crotti Leave a Comment

A federal appeals court has ruled that Medtronic must face a whistleblower lawsuit over FDA clearance of certain spinal fusion devices. The Dan Abrams Company sued Medtronic in 2015 claiming that Medtronic defrauded the FDA into granting 510(k) clearance to certain Verte-Stack cervical vertebral body replacement (VBR) devices used in spinal fusion surgeries. The lawsuit […]

Filed Under: 510(k), Food & Drug Administration (FDA), Legal News, Regulatory/Compliance, Spine Tagged With: FDA, Medtronic

MedTech 100 roundup: Heading back to previous heights?

April 5, 2021 By Sean Whooley Leave a Comment

Although March brought on tough times for top stocks in the medtech industry, April is already showing signs of a rebound. The year’s strong start, during which MassDevice‘s MedTech 100 index notched an all-time best of 110.96 points (Feb. 15) came to an end later that month and carried over into March, with the index hitting its lowest […]

Filed Under: Business/Financial News, Featured, Funding Roundup, Initial Public Offering (IPO), Mergers & Acquisitions, Wall Street Beat Tagged With: 3m, Abbott, BD, Corvida Medical, Fresenius Kabi, Grail, Illumina Inc., Medtronic, Merit Medical Systems, NeuroPace

DTW Podcast: Earnhardt shares how Abbott shifted gears to counter pandemic; Grail still looks to upend oncology

April 2, 2021 By Tom Salemi Leave a Comment

This week, we’ll talk with Abbott’s medical devices EVP Lisa Earnhardt about how the life sciences giant pivoted during the pandemic. Earnhardt shares what programs were given greater priority when the lockdown’s impact became clear and why the company performed so well in one of its key businesses. We also explore this week’s news that […]

Filed Under: Business/Financial News, Device Talks Podcasts, Featured, Special Content Tagged With: Abbott, BD, Corindus, Corindus Vascular Robotics, DeviceTalks, DeviceTalks Weekly, Evercore ISI, Grail, Illumina Inc., Medtronic, Zimmer Biomet

4 innovative devices delivered through catheters

March 30, 2021 By Danielle Kirsh

Physicians use catheters to deploy numerous life-saving devices across the healthcare realm, from cardiovascular to neurovascular. They typically insert the thin, flexible tubes in a process called catheterization to deploy devices such as left ventricular assist devices (LVADs), transcatheter aortic valve replacements (TAVRs) and occluders to stop bleeding. The catheter industry is regularly innovating to […]

Filed Under: Catheters, Featured, Implants Tagged With: Abbott, Boston Scientific, Edwards Lifesciences, Medtronic

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