Medical Device Week articles from October 2007

Medical Device Week archives from October 2007

Conference tackles pandemic fueled by diabetes and aging.(Conference news)
October 1, 2007... PAD: New treatments, better awareness needed Conference tackles pandemic fueled by diabetes and aging By LARRY HAIMOVITCH Medical Device Daily Contributing Writer LAS VEGAS -- The fifth annual Vascular Interventional Advances...

Calcification attack, but adjacent tissue safety via Diamondback.
October 1, 2007... PAD: New treatments, better awareness needed Calcification attack, but adjacent tissue safety via Diamondback By OMAR FORD A Medical Device Daily Staff Writer Calcified plaque buildup has often been a difficult road block for...

ASM's Materials for Devices database aids product push.
October 1, 2007... Materials and Processes for Medical Devices meeting ASM's Materials for Devices database aids product push By JIM STOMMEN Medical Device Daily National Editor PALM DESERT, California -- There's little question that we live in...

Court report.
October 1, 2007... Court report Immucor president/CEO to pay $30,000; class action settled A Medical Device Daily Staff Report Dr. Gioacchino De Chirico, president/CEO of Immucor (Norcross, Georgia) has agreed to pay a civil penalty of $30,000 in a...

Today's MDD food for med-tech thought.(Medical Device Daily, medical technology)(Brief article)
October 1, 2007... Today's MDD food for med-tech thought Survey respondents' awareness of PAD was 25%, compared to that for stroke (74%), coronary artery disease (67%) and heart failure (67%). -- The results of a poll conducted by the PAD Coalition,...

Deals roundup.
October 1, 2007... Deals roundup Matritech parts ways with Sysmex, sells assets to IMI for $36 million A Medical Device Daily Staff Report Matritech (Newton, Massachusetts) reported that Sysmex America (Mundelein, Illinois)and Matritech have...

Patent watch.
October 1, 2007... Patent watch Innovative seeking invalidation of five KCI wound care patents A Medical Device Daily Staff Report Wound care products developer Kinetic Concepts (KCI; San Antonio) is being sued by Innovative Therapies (Hunt Valley,...

New ventures.
October 1, 2007... New ventures Companies to co-develop a $100 genome project via $8.8M grant A Medical Device Daily Staff Report BioNanomatrix (Philadelphia), a company developing nanoscale whole genome imaging and analytic platforms, and Complete...

Grants/Contracts.(Disease/Disorder overview)
October 1, 2007... Grants/Contracts NATT gives $1.35M to programs working to prevent blood clots A Medical Device Daily Staff Report The National Alliance for Thrombosis and Thrombophilia (NATT; Tarrytown New York) reported yesterday the award of two...

Briefly Noted.
October 1, 2007... Briefly Noted Concentra completes Georgia facility Concentra (Addison, Texas) recently completed construction on a new Concentra Medical Center at 860 Duluth Highway, Lawrenceville, Georgia. This new medical center officially opened on...

Product Briefs.
October 1, 2007... Product Briefs * Biolog (Hayward, California) reported the expansion of its Phenotype MicroArray (PM) product line to enable nearly 1,500 simultaneous phenotypic assays of human and other mammalian cells. PM technology is a powerful assay...

People in Places.
October 1, 2007... People in Places * Patrick Sullivan has been named VP of R&D for the research biotech unit of Sigma-Aldrich (St. Louis). Previously Sullivan was VP of global operations for Incyte Genomics. Sigma-Aldrich is a life science and high...

International report.
October 1, 2007... International report CALM Patterns software aims at improving health of fetus A Medical Device Daily Staff Report LMS Medical Systems (Montreal), developer of the CALM clinical information system and risk management software tools...

Spotlight again on cardio sector at Cleveland Clinic's gathering.
October 2, 2007... 2007 Medical Innovation Summit Spotlight again on cardio sector at Cleveland Clinic's gathering By HOLLAND JOHNSON Medical Device Daily Managing Editor CLEVELAND -- The 2007 edition of the always interesting Cleveland Clinic...

Financings roundup.(brief)
October 2, 2007... Financings roundup Bioheart IPO will seek $46.9M to back cell therapy for heart By DON LONG Medical Device Daily Executive Editor Bioheart (Sunrise, Florida), a company hoping to commercialize cell therapy for regeneration of...

Report from Europe.
October 2, 2007... Report from Europe Air Liquide grows Brit 'footprint' via Allied Respiratory purchase A Medical Device Daily Staff Report After entering the UK homecare and medical gases market in May with the acquisition of Linde UK, Air Liquide...

Deals roundup.(Lingualcare)(acquisitions)
October 2, 2007... Deals roundup Software of Excellence acquired by Henry Schein for $51.4 million A Medical Device Daily Staff Report Henry Schein (Melville, New York), a large provider of healthcare products and services to office-based...

Patent watch.
October 2, 2007... Patent watch ISTO wins patent for cell-based cartilage repair technology A Medical Device Daily Staff Report ISTO Technologies (St. Louis), a private orthobiologics company, reported that the U.S. Patent and Trade Office granted it...

Today's MDD food for med-tech thought.
October 2, 2007... Today's MDD food for med-tech thought The next 12 months "are going to be the most important months in healthcare policy in the last 15 years." -- Chris Coburn, executive director of CCF Innovations, "Spotlight again on cardio sector...

Grants.
October 2, 2007... Grants Covidien, MU win funds, partner to make hernia surgeries safer A Medical Device Daily Staff Report Scientists at the University of Missouri-Columbia School of Medicine (MU; Columbia, Missouri) reported that they will use a...

Briefly Noted.
October 2, 2007... Briefly Noted New UCLA center dedicated The UCLA Biomedical Sciences Research Building and Orthopaedic Hospital Research Center (Los Angeles), a research hub located on the UCLA campus, was officially dedicated late September. UCLA and...

Product Briefs.(MDS Analytical Technologies )(VisiTech International)(Medical Acoustics )
October 2, 2007... Product Briefs * Cordis (Warren, New Jersey) has introduced the Fire Star Rx PTCA dilatation catheter and the Dura Star Rx PTCA dilatation catheter. Both balloons, indicated for expansion in the narrowed area of a coronary artery or bypass...

People in Places.(Cardio3 BioSciences SA)(Eclipsys Corp.)(Brief article)
October 2, 2007... People in Places * Assay Designs (Ann Arbor, Michigan) reported two additions to its senior leadership team: Michael Mullenix, PhD, was named VP of R&D. Mullenix comes to Assay Designs from Amgen. Gabriella Szekely-Klepser, PhD, was named...

Panel: Innovation is lifeblood, not bane of healthcare in U.S.
October 3, 2007... 2007 Medical Innovation Summit Panel: Innovation is lifeblood, not bane of healthcare in U.S. By HOLLAND JOHNSON Medical Device Daily Managing Editor CLEVELAND -- New healthcare technologies generally cost more than older,...

'Scenario planning' critical in a world with some other ideas.
October 3, 2007... AdvaMed 2007: The MedTech Conference 'Scenario planning' critical in a world with some other ideas By MARK McCARTY Medical Device Daily Washington Editor WASHINGTON -- The Advanced Medical Technology Association (AdvaMed;...

International report.(Siemens Medical Solutions, Kameda Healthinformatics Institute, Abzil Industria e Comercio and Firstsource Solutions)
October 3, 2007... International report Siemens forms HIT joint venture with Kameda Healthinformatics A Medical Device Daily Staff Report Siemens Medical Solutions (SMS; Malvern, Pennsylvania) and Kameda Healthinformatics Institute (Tokyo) reported...

Spectranetics launches PATENT trial for SFA instent restenosis.
October 3, 2007... Spectranetics launches PATENT trial for SFA instent restenosis By OMAR Ford A Medical Device Daily Staff Writer In-stent restenosis is a major issue when it comes to percutaneous coronary intervention of coronary vessels, often...

Court Report.(Brief article)
October 3, 2007... Court Report LCA hit with class action charging false, misrepresented statements A Medical Device Daily Staff Report The law firm of Schiffrin Barroway Topaz & Kessler reported that it has filed a class action lawsuit on behalf of...

Today's MDD food for med-tech thought.(Brief article)
October 3, 2007... Today's MDD food for med-tech thought ... "forget about the past" and "start from the outside in," -- Jim Austin, of Decision Strategies International, describing the first steps in planning a company's future business strategies,...

Audio conference explores new FDA reauthorization powers.(Conference news)
October 3, 2007... Audio conference explores new FDA reauthorization powers New FDA legislation just enacted by Congress reauthorizes and amends the Medical Device User Fee, the Prescription Drug User Fee, and also provides other wide-ranging changes in the...

Deals roundup.(Medisystems)
October 3, 2007... Deals roundup NxStage Medical completes buy of Medisystems for $78.7 million A Medical Device Daily Staff Report NxStage Medical (Lawrence, Massachusetts), maker of the NxStage System One portable kidney dialysis machine, said it...

Agreements.
October 3, 2007... Agreements Sanarus teams up with centers to offer its Visica 2 treatments A Medical Device Daily Staff Report Sanarus Medical (Pleasanton, California) reported a partnership with breast care physicians from centers across the...

Contracts/Grants.
October 3, 2007... Contracts/Grants Digital Angel teams with USDA for animal identification deal A Medical Device Daily Staff Report Digital Angel, (ST. Paul, Minnesota), a devleoper of rapid and accurate identification, location tracking and...

Briefly Noted.
October 3, 2007... Briefly Noted NAS receives NASDAQ notice North American Scientific (Chatsworth, California) said that it received a notice from the NASDAQ stock market indicating that the company does not comply with the minimum $10 million...

Product Briefs.
October 3, 2007... Product Briefs * Smith & Nephew Endoscopy (S&N Endoscopy; Andover, Massachusetts) reported the launch of the Kinsa RC 5.5 suture anchor, designed to provide secure repair of shoulder injuries stemming from tears to the rotator cuff, the...

People in Places.
October 3, 2007... People in Places * BioInformatics (Arlington, Virginia), a provider of market research and consulting services to the life sciences, reported three additions to its management team: Robin Rothrock, PhD, was promoted from director of market...

Coleman: 'health should not be turned over to government'.(Norm Coleman)
October 3, 2007... Coleman: 'health should not be turned over to government' A luncheon speaker at the inaugural AdvaMed med-tech conference was Norm Coleman, Republication senator from Minnesota -- home of several giants in the med-tech industry. And he...

Panel says DES are here to stay - at least for another five years.
October 4, 2007... 2007 Medical Device Innovation Summit Panel says DES are here to stay -- at least for another five years By HOLLAND JOHNSON Medical Device Daily Managing Editor CLEVELAND -- Against the background of recent debate surrounding...

Panel: vascular therapy poses difficulties but then 'reinvents'.(Discussion)
October 4, 2007... AdvaMed 2007: The MedTech Conference Panel: vascular therapy poses difficulties but then 'reinvents' By MARK McCARTY Medical Device Daily Washington Editor WASHINGTON -- The second day of the inaugural med-tech conference...

Report from Europe.
October 4, 2007... Report from Europe Gilde Healthcare Partners closes second fund of C150 million A Medical Device Daily Staff Report Venture capital firm Gilde Healthcare Partners (Utrecht, the Netherlands) reported the close of its €150...

Adlyfe reports publication of study in journal "Transfusion".
October 4, 2007... Adlyfe reports publication of study in journal Transfusion By KAREN YOUNG Medical Device Daily Staff Writer Adlyfe's (Rockville, Maryland) top executive believes that the company's technology to detect misfolded proteins in prion...

Court Report.
October 4, 2007... Court report Class action vs. Micrus charges misrepresentation of operations A Medical Device Daily Staff Report Coughlin Stoia Geller Rudman & Robbins reported that it has filed a class action versus Micrus Endovascular (San Jose,...

Today's MDD food for med-tech thought.(Medical Device Daily, medical technology)(Brief article)
October 4, 2007... Today's MDD food for med-tech thought "I don't think we'll be as exuberant." -- Donald Baim, MD, chief medical officer at Boston Scientific, commenting on the future promotion of drug-eluting stent systems in future applications of...

Financings roundup.
October 4, 2007... Financings roundup $10M in venture debt to Diomed; Certified Diabetic adds $2.75M A Medical Device Daily Staff Report Diomed Holding (Andeover, Massachusetts), specializing in developing products for the treatment of varicose...

Briefly Noted.
October 4, 2007... Briefly Noted Kindred Healthcare opens new centers Kindred Healthcare (Louisville, Kentucky) reported the opening of Kindred Hospital Philadelphia -- Havertown (Havertown, Pennsylvania,) and Kindred Hospital Richmond (Richmond,...

Deals roundup.
October 4, 2007... Deals roundup Orthofix acquiring rights related to InSWing interspinous spacer A Medical Device Daily Staff Report Orthofix International (Huntersville, North Carolina) reported acquiring the rights to all of the intellectual...

Agreements.
October 4, 2007... Agreements Eclipse to market ThermaCool in Southwest U.S. for Thermage A Medical Device Daily Staff Report Thermage (Hayward, California) said it has signed a distribution agreement with Eclipse Medical (Dallas), a distributor of...

Contracts.
October 4, 2007... Contracts Aionex using SkyeTek RFID tech for ORs, ERs and intensive care A Medical Device Daily Staff Report SkyeTek (Westminister, Colorado), a provider of embedded RFID solutions, said that Aionex (Goodlettsville, Tennessee) has...

Cleveland Clinic, Arteriocyte gain NIH support for stem cell eye treatment.
October 4, 2007... Cleveland Clinic, Arteriocyte gain NIH support for stem cell eye treatment A Medical Device Daily Staff Report The Cleveland Clinic is much, much more than cardiovascular care. The clinic's Cole Eye Institute this week reported a...

Product Briefs.(Avid Radiopharmaceuticals, Signalife)
October 4, 2007... Product Briefs * Avid Radiopharmaceuticals (Philadelphia) reported that enrollment has begun in a proof-of-concept phase I clinical trial investigating Avid's development compound 18F-AV-133 for imaging patients with movement disorders,...

People in Places.(Cellectar)
October 4, 2007... People in Places * Ernest Allen has been named director of clinical operations of Cellectar (Madison, Wisconsin). Most recently, Allen was clinical manager for Tapestry Pharmaceuticals. Cellectar is a radiopharmaceuticals company. *...

From CT to robotics, 'Top Ten' '08 medical innovations named.
October 5, 2007... 2007 Medical Device Innovation Summit From CT to robotics, 'Top Ten' '08 medical innovations named By HOLLAND JOHNSON Medical Device Daily Managing Editor CLEVELAND -- Could David Letterman do it any better? The second...

Panelist: private equity bubble likely to hit device companies.
October 5, 2007... AdvaMed 2007: The MedTech Conference Panelist: private equity bubble likely to hit device companies By MARK McCARTY Medical Device Daily Washington Editor WASHINGTON -- The third day of the med-tech conference assembled by the...

Report from Europe.
October 5, 2007... Report from Europe bioMerieux launches test for diagnosis of heart failure By JOHN BROSKY Medical Device Daily European Editor and Staff Reports Building on its installed base for point-of-care immunoassays, bioMerieux...

Med-tech landscape is sunny, but watch out for 'storm clouds'.
October 5, 2007... 2007 Georgia Life Sciences Summit Med-tech landscape is sunny, but watch out for 'storm clouds' By OMAR FORD Medical Device Daily Staff Writer ATLANTA -- If the present landscape of hefty investments and good returns from...

Deals roundup.
October 5, 2007... Deals roundup Select to acquire CORA for $46M; IMI buys Bio-Stat for $33.4 million A Medical Device Daily Staff Report Select Medical (Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania) has signed a definitive agreement to acquire the business of CORA...

Today's MDD food for med-tech thought.(Medical Device Daily, medical technology)(Brief article)
October 5, 2007... Today's MDD food for med-tech thought "The growth rate in med-tech has grown at twice the rate of pharma," Viscogliosi said. -- Anthony Viscogliosi, introducing a panel, titled "What VCs Are Looking For," at this week's AdvaMed...

Clarifications.
October 5, 2007... Clarifications An article in the Sept. 14 issue of Medical Device Daily, Seno Medical touts its Imagio as aid to tumor classification," incorrectly identified Barbara Lind as the VP of business development and marketing. Her title is VP,...

Contracts.
October 5, 2007... Contracts Caliper wins $7M NIEHS contract for genetically-modified mice A Medical Device Daily Staff Report Caliper Life Sciences (Hopkinton, Massachusetts) reported that the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences...

Financings roundup.
October 5, 2007... Financings roundup Fogarty-founded Crux Biomedical receives $250,000 from Hercules A Medical Device Daily Staff Report Crux Biomedical (Portola, California) said it received a $250,000 direct equity investment from Hercules...

Agreements.
October 5, 2007... Agreements Luna Innovations in alliance with Terumo Cardiovascular A Medical Device Daily Staff Report Luna Innovations (Roanoke, Virginia) reported that it has entered a joint marketing alliance with Terumo Cardiovascular Systems...

Product Briefs.(Paramed)
October 5, 2007... Product Briefs * CardioDynamics (San Diego) said it has received FDA market approval for the new ICG clinical parameters and electronic medical record (EMR) interface capability for its BioZ Dx system. The BioZ Dx is the product of a...

People in Places.
October 5, 2007... People in Places * Calvin Summer, MD, was named chief medical officer and senior VP of clinical development for BioBehavioral Diagnostics (Cambridge, Massachusetts). Most recently, Sumner held senior clinical development positions at Eli...

Ethicon joins gastric banding market with Realize approval.
October 8, 2007... Ethicon joins gastric banding market with Realize approval By AMANDA PEDERSEN Medical Device Daily Staff Writer With U.S. commercialization okay of a new adjustable gastric band -- an implantable device intended to treat morbid...

Panelist: 'Focus' essential for medical device start ups.
October 8, 2007... Panelist: 'Focus' essential for medical device start ups By OMAR FORD Medical Device Daily Staff Writer ATLANTA -- A company develops what it says is an innovative product, gets FDA approval and brings it to market. Then all of a...

Report from Europe.
October 8, 2007... Report from Europe Obesity weighing more heavily at French surgical congresses By JOHN BROSKY Medical Device Daily European Editor PARIS -- Opening side-by-side at the Palais des Congres last week were the 109th French...

InTouch Health's RP-7 robotic system enables remote learning.
October 8, 2007... InTouch Health's RP-7 robotic system enables remote learning By KAREN YOUNG Medical Device Daily Staff Writer A U.S. surgeon doesn't have the everyday opportunity, or responsibility, to oversee a bariatric surgical procedure from...

Deals roundup.
October 8, 2007... Deals roundup Philips in $11M Raytel Cardiac buy; ev3, FoxHollow complete merger A Medical Device Daily Staff Report Royal Philips Electronics (Amsterdam, the Netherlands) reported that it will acquire Raytel Cardiac Services (RCS;...

Today's MDD food for med-tech thought.(Medical Device Daily, medical technology)(Brief article)
October 8, 2007... Today's MDD food for med-tech thought "We're excited about our products. And we believe the products each provide opportunities for growth. You have to have that and focus. If you don't have focus then you better have buckets of money. And...

Washington roundup.
October 8, 2007... Washington roundup March of routine GMP findings continues to dot FDA warnings A Medical Device Daily Staff Report Warning letters are routinely posted at the FDA web site, which one assumes would serve as fair warning to makers of...

Agreements.
October 8, 2007... Agreements IntriCon enters alliance with Advanced Medical Electronics A Medical Device Daily Staff Report IntriCon (Arden Hills, Minnesota), a maker of body-worn medical and electronics devices, said that it has entered into a...

Financings roundup.
October 8, 2007... Financings roundup MAP seeks to raise $69M in IPO; Helixis adds partner to 'A' round A Medical Device Daily Staff Report MAP Pharmaceuticals (Mountain View, California) reported that it has priced its initial public offering (IPO)...

Grants/contracts.
October 8, 2007... Grants/contracts SRA gets $25M for tech services; OSI gets $9.3M for X-ray offerings A Medical Device Daily Staff Report SRA International (Fairfax, Virginia) a provider of technology and strategic consulting services and solutions...

Patent watch.(AngioDynamics Inc.)(Brief article)
October 8, 2007... Patent watch AngioDynamics gets patent for endovascular laser treatment A Medical Device Daily Staff Report AngioDynamics (Queensbury, New York) reported that the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has granted the company...

CEO, as American in Paris, cites lessons from European moves.(chief executive officer Said Hilal)(Interview)
October 8, 2007... CEO, as American in Paris, cites lessons from European moves PARIS -- Said Hilal, president/CEO of Applied Medical (Rancho Santa Margarita, California), was comfortable with the background buzz of lingua Francais while sitting in his...

Product Briefs.
October 8, 2007... Product Briefs * The American Diabetes Association (Alexandria, Virginia) reported a new web-based diabetes tool that makes it easier for people with diabetes and their care providers to share and organize important health information to...

People in Places.(Brief article)
October 8, 2007... People in Places * Dipankar Bhattacharjee has been promoted to corporate VP and president of the Asia Pacific region of Bausch & Lomb (B&L; Rochester, New York). Bhattacharjee was most recently VP of commercial operations of Asia Pacific....

Deals roundup.
October 9, 2007... Deals roundup Boston Sci jettisons 13.3% stake in Cyberonics for $48.6 million A Medical Device Daily Staff Report Boston Scientific (Natick, Massachusetts) reported that it has liquidated its 13.3% stake in troubled implantable...

Radiosurgery company growth sparked by added applications.
October 9, 2007... Accuray analyst meeting Radiosurgery company growth sparked by added applications By LARRY HAIMOVITCH Medical Device Daily Contributing Writer LAS VEGAS -- The old adage that there are many ways to skin a cat certainly applies...

Report from Europe.(Medicrea, AirInSpace)
October 9, 2007... Report from Europe French spinal implant maker reports 24% increase in sales By JOHN BROSKY Medical Device Daily European Editor and Staff Reports Boosted by strong uptake for its products in the U.S., French spinal...

Financings roundup.
October 9, 2007... Financings roundup Apollo in 'A' $11.5 million round; Simplex Diabetic garners $50M By OMAR FORD Medical Device Daily Staff Writer A newly formed company, Apollo Endosurgery (Austin, Texas), reported that it has secured $11.5...

Patent watch.
October 9, 2007... Patent watch Third Wave issues new response in connection with Digene dispute A Medical Device Daily Staff Report Kevin Conroy, president CEO of Third Wave Technologies (Madison, Wisconsin), in a company statement, has issued a...

Today's MDD food for med-tech thought.(Medical Device Daily, medical technology, Apollo Endosurgery)(Brief article)
October 9, 2007... Today's MDD food for med-tech thought Financing proceeds will be used to complete product development and conduct clinical trials in the U.S. for tools to perform minimally invasive surgeries through the mouth and into the peritoneal...

Agreements.
October 9, 2007... Agreements Bracco Diagnostics in imaging agent accord with HealthTrust A Medical Device Daily Staff Report Bracco Diagnostics (Princeton, New Jersey), a large provider of imaging agents, and HealthTrust Purchasing Group (HPG;...