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Cvrx closes additional $12 million under its Series F financing

CVRx, Inc., a privately held medical device company, has closed on an additional $12 million under its Series F financing. This brings the total raised in the Series F financing to $42 million.

30 Oct 2013

DJO Global and Olympic gold medalist team up to educate athletes on injury prevention

DJO Global, Inc. today announced that Megan Rapinoe, Olympic gold medalist for the U.S. Women's Soccer Team and member of the Seattle Reign FC, a part of the National Women's Soccer League, is partnering with the medical device company to help educate young athletes on the value of bracing in both injury prevention and returning to play.

30 Oct 2013

As mandate delay talk continues, examining what it means for insurers, larger health law

As talk continues over possibly putting off parts of the health law, news outlets look at what delaying the mandate that nearly all Americans have health insurance could do to insurers and just how smart the move really would be -- despite the seemingly good politics of a delay.

30 Oct 2013

Teleflex wins AARC Zenith Award for 2013

Teleflex Incorporated, a leading global provider of medical devices for critical care and surgery, announced that it has received the prestigious American Association for Respiratory Care Zenith Award for 2013.

28 Oct 2013

Middle Peak Medical raises additional $3M in Series A financing

Middle Peak Medical, a development-stage medical device company that will commercialize a novel technology for treating mitral valve disease, has raised an additional $3M in a second closing of its over-subscribed Series A financing, which now totals approximately $11M.

28 Oct 2013

Transcatheter Technologies reports first-in-human implantation of transapical TRINITY aortic valve

Transcatheter Technologies GmbH, a emerging medical device company that is developing a next-generation transcatheter aortic heart valve prosthesis, announced today the successful first-in-human implantation of its transapical TRINITY aortic valve designed to be the world's best repositionable heart valve.

25 Oct 2013

Johns Hopkins joins with imec to advance silicon applications in health care

Researchers and physicians at The Johns Hopkins University will collaborate with Belgian nanoelectronics research center imec to advance silicon applications in health care, beginning with development of a point-of-care device to enable a broad range of clinical tests to be performed outside the laboratory.

25 Oct 2013

Residents of Orange County, California nursing homes carry community-associated MRSA

More than one quarter of residents of 26 nursing homes in Orange County, California carry community-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, which spread more easily, and may cause more severe infection than MRSA traditionally associated with healthcare facilities, according to a paper published in the November 2013 issue of the Journal of Clinical Microbiology.

25 Oct 2013

ICON Q3 net revenues increase 19% to $339.8 million

ICON plc, a global provider of outsourced development services to the pharmaceutical, biotechnology and medical device industries, today reported its financial results for the third quarter ended September 30, 2013.

24 Oct 2013

Unique approach to help discover how cell changes shape in response to topographies

Cells in the human body change shape as they crawl, split, or cling to other surfaces, but while the scientific literature is filled with examples of how cell shapes shift in response to things they touch, little is known about the rules that govern these changes. And there has been no high-throughput way to systematically test different topologies against different types of cells to optimize the surface of something like a medical implant.

24 Oct 2013

Sanofi uses QUOSA's literature management tools to automate adverse event monitoring

Elsevier, a world-leading provider of scientific, technical and medical information products and services, today announced that Sanofi, one of the world's leading pharmaceutical organizations, has implemented QUOSA's literature management tools to automate adverse event monitoring.

22 Oct 2013

Thomson Reuters adds Cortellis Clinical Trials Intelligence for drug discovery and development

The Intellectual Property & Science business of Thomson Reuters, the world's leading provider of intelligent information for businesses and professionals, today announced the addition of Clinical Trials Intelligence to the Thomson Reuters CortellisTM suite, the industry's most comprehensive information solution for drug discovery and development.

19 Oct 2013

Motor neurone disease neck collars: an interview with Dr Christopher J McDermott, Clinical Senior Lecturer, University of Sheffield

The majority of the current neck support collars for MND patients were designed for a different purpose. So, if you think about when people are involved in a road traffic accident, the paramedics arrive and put a collar on to immobilize the neck and protect the spine. A lot of the collars that we give to our patients with MND were actually designed for that purpose - to immobilize the necks of people involved in trauma… and patients don't want that.

18 Oct 2013

Viewpoints: 'Surrender' by Republicans; 'myth' of income verification; 'this fight didn't end'

The health care reform law will not be defunded or delayed. No taxes will be cut, and the deal calls for no new cuts to federal spending or limits to social welfare programs. The only things Republicans achieved were billions of dollars in damage to the economy, harm to the nation's reputation and a rock-bottom public approval rating (10/16).

18 Oct 2013

Ceram hosts free webinar on ‘How Clean is Your Device?’

Ceram, the international materials technology company, will be hosting a free webinar, ‘How Clean is Your Device?’ on Thursday 21 November at 3pm (UK time).

17 Oct 2013

What's in? What's out? Tracking the course of health law changes included in budget talks

After playing a central role in the negotiations, two health law tax provisions -- one related to reinsurance and the other a levy on medical devices -- appear to be off the table as of Wednesday morning. News outlets explained both in stories filed Tuesday night.

17 Oct 2013

Medical Devices News and Research

Cvrx closes additional $12 million under its Series F financing

DJO Global and Olympic gold medalist team up to educate athletes on injury prevention

As mandate delay talk continues, examining what it means for insurers, larger health law

Teleflex wins AARC Zenith Award for 2013

Middle Peak Medical raises additional $3M in Series A financing

Transcatheter Technologies reports first-in-human implantation of transapical TRINITY aortic valve

Johns Hopkins joins with imec to advance silicon applications in health care

Residents of Orange County, California nursing homes carry community-associated MRSA

ICON Q3 net revenues increase 19% to $339.8 million

Unique approach to help discover how cell changes shape in response to topographies

Sanofi uses QUOSA's literature management tools to automate adverse event monitoring

Thomson Reuters adds Cortellis Clinical Trials Intelligence for drug discovery and development

Motor neurone disease neck collars: an interview with Dr Christopher J McDermott, Clinical Senior Lecturer, University of Sheffield

Viewpoints: 'Surrender' by Republicans; 'myth' of income verification; 'this fight didn't end'

Ceram hosts free webinar on ‘How Clean is Your Device?’

What's in? What's out? Tracking the course of health law changes included in budget talks

First Edition: October 16, 2013

Brain damage treatment could be as close as the wardrobe

Shutdown commentaries: Compromise may take nick out of health law; 'The Party of Gimme'

Senate leaders close in on deal that leaves health law intact

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Evaluating new approaches for rare disease genomics

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