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The MassDevice Weekly Roundup brings you the latest medical device news and information.
The MassDevice Checkup
Our weekly checkup takes the temperature of the public medical device companies in the three largest markets in the U.S.: Massachusetts, Minnesota and California. In addition to the indices for each state, which track the overall movement of the sector, we compare Monday morning’s opening share prices with their value when the markets close Friday afternoon and calculate the biggest gainers and losers. Read More
News
Thermo Fisher joins the re-fi boom
Phase Forward founder headlines Humedica’s scientific advisory board
Exact Sciences CEO rules out a run for Wisconsin governorship
Bruker taps co-presidents for its BioSpin division
A roundup of medical device makers’ sales and earnings reports. This week’s list includes: AdvanSource Biomaterials, Cambridge Heart, Hologic, Oridion, PLC Systems, Pressure BioSciences, Psychemedics and Zoll. Read More
Hamburg looks to clean house at CDRH
Zoll releases iPhone CPR training app
Athenahealth wins patent for HIT software
Echo Therapeutics drums up $3 million
FDA to probe biphasic defibrillators
Zimmer Holdings retools $600 million in debt
Report: Medical device service provider market to near $27 billion in five years
DePuy Ortho to shutter British plant, lay off 280 workers
Quest Diagnostics is on the prowl for another acquisition
Some medical device makers acquiesce to healthcare reform tax
Cambridge Heart, Cardiac Science reveal OEM deal
Covidien launches first U.S. product from its Confluent Surgical acquisition
Positive studies pile up for GI Dynamics
Federal judge deals blow to Conceptus infringement suit against Hologic
Study shows increased risk of fracture in drug-eluting stents
Fidelity Investments buys a big stake in Abiomed
Stryker spends $103 million on a pair of acquisitions
FDA issues Class I recall of Edwards Lifesciences aortic catheter
Inverness Medical spikes distribution pact with Thermo Fisher
HeartWare releases clinical trial data
Medtronic launches heart leads study
BioTrove inks acquisition deal and announces spinout
Helicos takes itself off the market
St. Jude drops out of AdvaMed in device tax dispute
Facet Solutions enrolls 100 in lumbar spinal stenosis trial
Harvest Technologies completes clinical trial enrollment
Jobs
Featured Jobs:
Territory Manager (Southern Calif.) Haemonetics Corp. is looking for someone to deliver total value proposition and function as a Blood Management Adviser to customer. Effectively sell full line of Patient Division product portfolio focused on growing existing business as well as prospecting new business. Read More
Supply Chain Manager (Marlborough, Mass.) Biomedical Search Consultants is looking for a Supply Chain Manager to oversee multiple supply chain activities to include production planning, purchasing, inventory control, receiving, warehouse stock control, warehousing and distribution at a manufacturing services provider. Read More
Product Manager (Chelmsford, Mass.) Biomedical Search Consultants is looking for a product manager for its client, a manufacturer of medical devices for imaging in the surgical arena. Read More
Manufacturing positions (Hudson, N.H.) OPERON Resource Management is currently recruiting bright, hard-working and experienced employees to fill a wide range of important positions at major manufacturing and logistics companies located throughout New England. Read More
Assemblers, Packers & Inspectors (Clinton, Mass) OPERON Resource Management is filling positions for a clean room staffing team to make high-quality products for Life Science, High-Technology and Defense companies in a sophisticated manufacturing environment. Read More
Features
MassDevice Q&A: American Well CEO Roy Schoenberg
The web-enabled, on-demand healthcare service firm’s chief on why 2009 will be a watershed year and the similarities between fundraising and warfare. Read More
Blogs
MassDevice blog: Are EMRs “magical thinking” or the real thing?
A Kaiser Permanente executive warns of over-hyping the impact electronic medical records will have on the healthcare system. Read More
Dollars & Spence: Innovation in orthopedics
The state of innovation within the orthopedics industry, according to independent testing labs. Read More
MedGadget’s MedTech Monday: Google Flu
Google’s new tool to find flu vaccine; STAR Analytical Services’ cough detector; an LED-powered endoscope; and Medtronic’s Melody transcatheter cardiac valve replacement in children. Read More
Dollars & Spence: Soteira emerges from stealth mode
The Natick, Mass.-based vertebroplasty firm reveals its technology at the 24th annual meeting of the North American Spine Society in San Francisco. Read More
Weekly Wireless Roundup: Ten wireless health clinical trials
MobiHealthNews rounds up 10 mobile phone-equipped clinical trials; AllOne Mobile sends 5,000 texts to wounded service members; making the case for Bluetooth in healthcare; and November spawns wireless health momentum. Read More
Upcoming Events
Featured Events
Nov. 18, Newton, Mass. — MDG networking event: Preclinical Device Qualification: Keeping FDA Happy
Reforming FDA’s regulation of the management, focus, and support of clinical trials, and of the use of electronic clinical trials tools, so as to better enable general healthcare reform and massive U.S. and global innovation, both of which are essential to ending the U.S. and global recessions.
Other events
Nov. 17, Chelmsford, Mass. — ASQ NE Biomedical Discussion Group Roundtable: Medical Device Directive / CE Mark Practical Applications and Issues
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