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The Massachusetts Life Sciences Center (MLSC), a quasi-public agency created by the state’s legislature in June 2006, surprised 2011 Bio International Convention-goers with a sassy number to promote that the convention is taking place in Boston next year.
Convention attendees were treated to a Britney Spears song-and-dance flash mob featuring MLSC CEO Susan Windham-Bannister as well as the center’s VP of communications, Angus McQuilken, in matching shirts and nearly-matching dance steps.
Medtronic Inc. (NYSE:MDT) said that its Resolute drug-eluting stent could level the playing field for cardiac patients suffering from diabetes in a study of nearly 1,000 patients.
The results of the pooled clinical trial are important because diabetic patients with heart disease generally have an increased risk of heart attack or other major cardiovascular event, and they’re targets for repeat procedures, according to Sigmund Silber of the Heart Catheterization Centre in Munich, Germany.
ProPublica, the online investigative website, carried a revealing set of stories Thursday documenting the financial ties between the Heart Rhythm Society, which represents the nation’s 5,100 cardiologists who specialize in arrythmias, and the medical device industry, which manufactures the stents, pacemakers and other widgets designed to protect people with serious heart disease from fatal heart attacks.
Former President George W. Bush will address the annual conference of the country’s largest medical device industry council, in a meeting of two parties that probably wish it was still 2004.
The Advanced Medical Technology Assn. said today that the 43rd POTUS has accepted its invitation to provide the keynote address at AdvaMed 2011, the council’s annual fall gathering. He’ll join Bill Clinton and George H.W. Bush as former presidents who have addressed the conference.
CBS news anchor Katie Couric had the honor at last year’s event, which drew about 1,700 attendees, according to planners.
Most of the major players in the medical device arena — and a few from off the bench — are busy touting new products and results from a slew of clinical trials at the European Assn. of Percutaneous Cardiovascular Interventions annual conference, EuroPCR 2010:
Abbott (NYSE:ABT):
MassDevice.com is liveblogging the World Health Medical Technology Conference at Boston University.
MassDevice.com is liveblogging the World Health Medical Technology Conference at Boston University.
MassDevice.com is liveblogging the World Health Medical Technology Conference at Boston University.
MassDevice.com is blogging on the topic of building innovative medical technology for the developing world, featuring some of the leading minds in the field.
This feature will continue through May 17 and the first annual World Health Medical Technology Conference at Boston University.
MassDevice.com is blogging on the topic of building innovative medical technology for the developing world, featuring some of the leading minds in the field.
This feature will continue through May 17th and the first annual World Health Medical Technology Conference at Boston University.
