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Abbott’s St. Jude Medical wins patent spat over catheterization method

March 25, 2021 By Nancy Crotti

St. Jude Medical, now part of Abbott, has won a patent dispute over a method for using a double catheter in heart failure patients. Niazi Licensing’s patent, issued in 2003 for the double catheter system, describes it as better suited for “use in the coronary sinus, especially in patients suffering from congestive heart failure,” according […]

Filed Under: Cardiovascular, Catheters, Featured, Legal News, Patent Infringement Tagged With: Abbott, stjudemedical

Miles White’s fearless strategy for growing Abbott

January 10, 2020 By Nancy Crotti

With strong leadership and a taste for risk-taking, outgoing CEO Miles White left no stone unturned as he grew Abbott into one of the world’s largest medical device companies. Few medical device companies have seen the growth and transformation that Abbott (NYSE:ABT) has seen under the leadership of Miles White. During his two decades as […]

Filed Under: Business/Financial News, Cardiovascular, Diabetes, Diagnostics, Featured, Implants, Neuromodulation/Neurostimulation, Pharmaceutical, Vascular, Wall Street Beat Tagged With: Abbott, AbbVie, Guidant Corp., Hospira Inc., stjudemedical

JAMA editorial slams FDA over adverse-event reporting

January 9, 2020 By Nancy Crotti

This article has been updated with comments from the FDA. A recent JAMA Internal Medicine editorial takes another swipe at the FDA for delays in improving its medical device adverse-event reporting. Journal editor Dr. Rita Redberg and Dr. James Salazar, both of Department of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, note several instances in which […]

Filed Under: Cardiovascular, Featured, Food & Drug Administration (FDA), Recalls, Regulatory/Compliance Tagged With: FDA, JAMA Internal Medicine, Medtronic, stjudemedical, Unique Device Identifier (UDI)

SEC settles insider trading cases

October 11, 2019 By Brad Perriello

The U.S. Securities & Exchange Commission said this week that it settled the case against the final five defendants in an insider trading scheme involving involving large corporate mergers. In August 2017, U.S. authorities accused seven individuals of reaping more than $5 million in illicit profits based on tips from Daniel Rivas, whose work at Bank […]

Filed Under: Featured, Mergers & Acquisitions, Wall Street Beat Tagged With: Abbott, Insider Trading, stjudemedical

Humana sues Abbott’s St. Jude Medical over CRM batteries

July 29, 2019 By Brad Perriello

Humana (NYSE:HUM) leveled a lawsuit against Abbott (NYSE:ABT) subsidiary St. Jude Medical seeking to recoup payments it made for cardiac rhythm management devices that were later recalled due to a battery issue. In October 2016 St. Jude publicly revealed the risk that the lithium-based batteries used in its implantable cardioverter defibrillators and cardiac resynchronization therapy […]

Filed Under: Cardiovascular, Featured, Legal News, Wall Street Beat Tagged With: Abbott, Cardiac Rhythm Management, Humana, stjudemedical

Innovative Health lands another catheter reprocessing clearance

July 1, 2019 By Nancy Crotti

Innovative Health said today that it has received FDA clearance to reprocess the Biosense Webster PentaRay Nav eco high-density mapping catheter for reuse. The clearance is the latest allowing Scottsdale, Ariz.-based Innovative Health to reprocess catheters. The FDA cleared it in 2018 to reprocess St. Jude Medical’s Advisor FL, Medtronic’s Torqr and Marinr and Biosense Webster’s […]

Filed Under: Cardiovascular, Catheters, Food & Drug Administration (FDA), News Well, Regulatory/Compliance Tagged With: Biosense Webster, FDA, Innovative Health, Medtronic, stjudemedical

Final defendant sentenced in insider trading case

April 8, 2019 By Nancy Crotti

Federal prosecutors have wrapped up an insider trading case based on alleged tips from a Bank of America consultant on pending corporate transactions, including Abbott‘s (NYSE:ABT) $25 billion acquisition of St. Jude Medical. Rodolfo Sablon, 39, of Miami, Fla., was sentenced Friday to six months in prison for his role in the insider trading scheme based […]

Filed Under: Business/Financial News, Featured, Legal News, Mergers & Acquisitions, News Well, Wall Street Beat Tagged With: Abbott, stjudemedical

Medtronic touts stroke data for HeartWare LVAD

April 5, 2019 By Brad Perriello

A retrospective analysis of two studies involved the HeartWare left-ventricular assist device Medtronic (NYSE:MDT) acquired in 2016 showed that managing blood pressure reduced the severity of strokes in patients implanted with the HVAD pump. The analysis, of “destination therapy” patients who are not candidates for a heart transplant, took data from the Endurance and Endurance […]

Filed Under: Clinical Trials, Featured, Structural Heart Tagged With: Abbott, HeartWare International Inc., Medtronic, stjudemedical, Thoratec Corp.

Study finds fault with ICD leads that Abbott inherited from St. Jude Medical

March 4, 2019 By Nancy Crotti

A review of FDA adverse event reports has revealed that some Abbott (NYSE:ABT) implantable cardioverter defibrillator (ICD) leads were much more likely than those made by Boston Scientific or Medtronic to fail due to internal insulation breaches (IBR). Researchers at the Minneapolis Heart Institute Foundation combed through the FDA MAUDE database from 2008 to 2018 for reports […]

Filed Under: Cardiac Implants, Featured, Food & Drug Administration (FDA), Implants, News Well, Structural Heart Tagged With: Abbott, Boston Scientific, FDA, Medtronic, stjudemedical

What should the Mann Foundation do next?

December 31, 2018 By Nancy Crotti

Dr. Robert Greenberg, the Mann Foundation’s new executive chairman, has ideas about where to take one of medtech’s top research and development outfits. He explained more at DeviceTalks West in December. The new executive chairman of the Alfred E. Mann Foundation for Scientific Research sees the foundation continuing its mission of developing devices for unmet medical needs. The foundation […]

Filed Under: Bioelectronic Medicine, Clinical Trials, Implants, Neuromodulation/Neurostimulation, News Well, Orthopedics, Prosthetics, Research & Development, Vision Tagged With: Advanced Bionics LLC, Alfred E. Mann Foundation, Axonics Modulation Technologies, bivacor, DeviceTalks West, Johns Hopkins University, Medtronic, Second Sight, stjudemedical, walterreednationalmilitarymedicalcenter

How Reggie Groves reinvented Medtronic’s atrial fibrillation biz

December 7, 2018 By Sarah Faulkner

Reva Medical (ASX:RVA) CEO Reggie Groves got her start in the medical device industry at medtech titan Medtronic. In her upcoming keynote interview at DeviceTalks West, Groves will discuss how that experience has shaped her as a leader and an innovator. Here’s a preview: When Reggie Groves joined Medtronic (NYSE:MDT) in 2002, she didn’t know very much […]

Filed Under: Business/Financial News, Cardiovascular, Featured, Vascular, Wall Street Beat Tagged With: DeviceTalks West, Johnson and Johnson, Medtronic, Reva Medical Inc., stjudemedical

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