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MassDevice.com +3 | The top 3 medtech stories for December 15, 2015
Say hello to MassDevice +3, a bite-sized view of the top three medtech stories of the day. This feature of MassDevice.com’s coverage highlights our 3 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.
3. Study: Boston Scientific’s Watchman cheaper than drugs in reducing afib stroke risk
A study comparing the stroke risk for atrial fibrillation patients treated with Boston Scientific‘s Watchman device with the anticoagulant drug warfarin and non-warfarin oral anticoagulants found Watchman t...
Source: Mass Device - December 15, 2015 Category: Medical Equipment Authors: MassDevice Tags: News Well Plus 3 Source Type: news
MassDevice.com +5 | The top 5 medtech stories for September 1, 2016
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.
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5. Pivotal trial pits St. Jude Medical’s Amplatzer Amulet anti-stroke device against Boston Scientific’s Watchman
St. Jude Medical said today that it launched a U.S. pivotal trial for its Amplatzer Amulet cardiac implant, whic...
Source: Mass Device - September 1, 2016 Category: Medical Equipment Authors: MassDevice Tags: News Well Plus 5 Source Type: news
MassDevice.com +5 | The top 5 medtech stories for July 8, 2016
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.
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5. Nexstim wins CE Mark for brain therapy treatment for chronic neuropathic pain
Brain therapy system developer Nexstim said late last month it won expanded CE Mark approval in the European Union for its Navigated Brain Therapy sy...
Source: Mass Device - July 8, 2016 Category: Medical Equipment Authors: MassDevice Tags: News Well Plus 5 Source Type: news
Jury adds $70m in damages to $9.8m Ethicon stapler loss
A California state jury added $70 million in damages to the $9.8 million it awarded the plaintiff last week in a product liability lawsuit over Johnson & Johnson (NYSE:JNJ) subsidiary Ethicon‘s PPH 03 hemorrhoid stapler, the plaintiff’s attorney’s said.
Plaintiff Florence Kuhlmann alleged that during hemorrhoidoplexy surgery in January 2012, the defective stapler misfired, sealing her anal canal and leading to 21 days of emergency hospitalization, infection and abdominal surgeries including a full laparotomy and colostomy, according to Alexander Law Group, her counsel in the case.
The jury in th...
Source: Mass Device - December 15, 2015 Category: Medical Equipment Authors: Brad Perriello Tags: Legal News Product Liability Ethicon Inc. Johnson & Johnson Source Type: news
MassDevice.com +5 | The top 5 medtech stories for September 14, 2016
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.
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5. Light-based arrhythmia treatment skips the shocks
Researchers at Johns Hopkins University and Germany’s University of Bonn showed that light can restore a normal heartbeat and replace electric shocks in patients at risk for a...
Source: Mass Device - September 14, 2016 Category: Medical Equipment Authors: MassDevice Tags: News Well Plus 5 Source Type: news
Sotera Wireless adds tools to patient monitoring system
Sotera Wireless said it has upgraded its ViSi Mobile patient monitoring system to detect atrial fibrillation, ventricular fibrillation and ventricular tachycardia, and to provide asystole analysis.
Often asymptomatic, atrial fibrillation may remain undiagnosed until or even after the development of complications, such as stroke. Post-operative atrial fibrillation is the most common arrhythmia that occurs after both cardiac and noncardiac surgery and is associated with increased morbidity, longer hospital stays and higher hospital costs.
ViSi Mobile was previously FDA-cleared to monitor continuous noninvasive blood pressure...
Source: Mass Device - March 6, 2019 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Nancy Crotti Tags: 510(k) Blog Food & Drug Administration (FDA) Health Information Technology mHealth (Mobile Health) News Well Patient Monitoring Regulatory/Compliance Sotera Wireless Source Type: news
