Medtronic (NYSE:MDT) said today that the FDA approved a clinical trial of its Symplicity Spyral renal denervation device in patients who already take medication for their high blood pressure. Fridley, Minn.-based Medtronic said the three-year, 340-patient Spyral HTN-On Med sham-controlled study is designed to compare treatment with the Symplicity Spyral device and a sham procedure, randomized […]
Medtronic touts five-year data for In.Pact Admiral drug-coated balloon
Medtronic (NYSE:MDT) today touted five-year data for its In.Pact Admiral drug-coated balloon, highlighting the durability and efficacy of its device in people with peripheral artery disease in the superficial femoral and popliteal arteries. The company presented five-year results from its pivotal In.Pact SFA trial at the 2018 Vascular Interventional Advances conference. Get the full story at […]
Medtronic wins FDA nod for SynchroMedII myPTM drug therapy manager
Medtronic (NYSE:MDT) said today that the FDA approved its new SynchroMedII myPTM personal therapy manager intended for use in treating patients with chronic pain. The newly cleared device works with the company’s SynchroMedII intrathecal drug delivery system and is designed to handle delivering on-demand boluses within therapeutic limits set by physicians, the Fridley, Minn.-based company said. […]
From Frankenstein to Medical Alley: Earl Bakken remembered
Earl Bakken was eight years old when he saw the movie Frankenstein and became fascinated with the connection between electricity and life. He went on to invent the wearable external pacemaker and co-founded Medtronic in 1949. In 1967, he hired Manny Villafaña to head the company’s international sales division. In 1972, Villafaña started a competing pacemaker […]
FDA approves Medtronic’s Valiant Navion thoracic stent graft
Medtronic (NYSE:MDT) said today that it won FDA approval for its Valiant Navion thoracic stent graft system intended for use in the minimally invasive repair of lesions in the descending thoracic aorta. The Fridley, Minn.-based company said that the stent system is now cleared for use in procedures to repair thoracic aortic aneurysms, blunt thoracic […]
RIP Medtronic co-founder Earl Bakken
Earl Bakken, who along with a brother-in-law founded what grew to become the world’s largest medical device company, Medtronic (NYSE:MDT), died Oct. 21 at age 94. Bakken and Palmer Hermundslie founded the Minneapolis-area company in 1949, working in an unheated boxcar behind the Hermundslie home. His first innovation was a battery-powered pacemaker designed using transistors that was […]
Where medtech is putting its money this November
Republicans reaped nearly $3.3 million in federal political contributions from the medtech industry in the 2017-18 election cycle, compared with $1.85 million for Democrats, according to data collected by the Center for Responsive Politics, a nonprofit campaign finance watchdog group. Medtech has “historically been a little more Republican than the average industry,” said Andrew Mayersohn, committees researcher […]
Medtronic launches workflow system to help wean patients off oral opioids
Medtronic (NYSE:MDT) said today that it launched its Control Workflow system in the U.S. for use with its SynchroMed II intrathecal drug-delivery system. The medtech titan is hoping that, combined with its pain pump, the workflow system can help physicians in weaning patients off oral opioids. In a retrospective claims analysis, Medtronic found that 51% of […]
Report: Medtronic shuts down pacer programmer updates on hacking risk
Medtronic (NYSE:MDT) has disabled internet updates for approximately 34,000 CareLink devices designed for accessing and programming implanted pacemakers due to cybersecurity vulnerabilities with the systems, according to a Reuters report. The vulnerability, revealed this summer by cybersecurity firm researchers, could allow an outside agent to plant malware on the pacers that would allow them to […]
Canada clears Medtronic’s MiniMed 670G insulin pump
Medtronic‘s (NYSE:MDT) Canada subsidiary said today that it won a license from Health Canada for its MiniMed 670G insulin pump system. The insulin pump system is the first device in Canada that stabilizes glucose levels by automatically adjusting basal insulin delivery according to a user’s real-time needs, the medtech titan touted. Get the full story […]
NASS 2018: Robotic platforms take center stage
Here’s a roundup from the North American Spine Society’s annual meeting in Los Angeles Medtech companies in the spinal market are rushing to join the robotic revolution, with Medtronic (NYSE:MDT) and Globus Medical (NYSE:GMED) leading the pack, according to a Leerink Partner analyst’s note from the North American Spine Society’s 2018 annual meeting. In a letter to […]
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