With Boston Scientific agreeing to settle three outstanding patent suits with Johnson & Johnson’s Cordis division regarding coronary stents for $1.725 billion, the two companies put behind a seven-year fight over the high value market.
Both companies hope to take advantage of the opportunity to move on, with Boston Scientific looking to minimize risk in the [...]
With the FDA's approval of Medtronic's Melody Transcatheter Pulmonary Valve and Ensemble Delivery System (see link), another step has been made toward eliminating traditional surgery — at least that's the idea. The ability to implant a valve via a percutaneous procedure advances the art of less invasive intervention in ways akin to laparoscopic surgery, albeit at [...]
The global market for medical devices is $200 billion opportunity and at least 13% of this market involves products that provide the controlled application of energy to tissue. The segment is dominated by high technology products ranging from devices that can heat and cool tissue over a 600° C temperature range of -200° C to [...]
High-strength glue products were approved for topical closure applications in the United States in the late 1990s. Outside the United States, high-strength glues and adhesives have been approved in some countries for a number of years and have built up a track record of use in internal surgery. With time, high-strength glues will come to [...]
Surgical management of soft tissues via "ablation" therapies, in which alternative energy types (radiation, electrosurgcal, ultrasound, etc.) are applied to excise, destroy, or otherwise produce a therapeutic effect at the tissue level has undergone a proliferation in development with all of these alternatives vying for caseload in clinical applications as diverse as tumor ablation, arrhythmia [...]
New medical technology development is active and driving the formation of many new medical technology companies. In MedMarket Diligence’s tracking of medtech startups (with an emphasis on medical device technologies as well as those complementary to, or directly competing with, them), over 280 companies have been founded since early 2006. Below is a distribution of [...]
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