MassDevice.com +5 | The top 5 medtech stories for September 20, 2017

Say hello to MassDevice +5, a bite-sized view of the top five medtech stories of the day. This feature of MassDevice.com’s coverage highlights our 5 biggest and most influential stories from the day’s news to make sure you’re up to date on the headlines that continue to shape the medical device industry. Get this in your inbox everyday by subscribing to our newsletters.   5. The 10 largest medical device companies in the world Mergers & acquisitions continue to change the medical device landscape, as reflected in Medical Design & Outsourcing’s new Big 100 list. We pulled financial regulatory filings and reached out to major companies in some cases to create a list of the 100 largest medical device companies in the world, ranked by annual revenue for their medical device operations. Yesterday, we counted down Nos. 20–11. Today, it’s the top 10. Read more 4. Reva Medical’s Fantom bioresorbable, drug-eluting vascular scaffold succeeds at 6 months As some companies have worked to improve drug-eluting stents by making them bioresorbable, some voices in the coronary intervention space have expressed concern over the rates of late stent thrombosis and repeat percutaneous coronary intervention seen with the devices. In a study published in the September issue of JACC: Cardiovascular Intervention, Reva Medical‘s Fantom coronary bioresorbable vascular scaffold succeeded after six months. The device was designed to address challenges li...
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