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Cryoablation Competition Heats Up

Atrial fibrillation (AF), a common heart rhythm disorder, is often treated with cardiac ablation. Cardiac ablation uses RF (heating) or cryothermal (cooling) energy to scar the areas of the heart muscle that are responsible...more

Boston Scientific Buys Venous-Stent Maker VENITI

Boston Scientific recently announced an agreement to acquire privately-held VENITI, Inc. for $160 million. According to the press release, VENITI submitted a pre-market approval application with the U.S. Food and Drug...more

DePuy Synthes Acquires Medical Enterprises Distribution LLC’s Orthopedic Assets

DePuy Synthes, a part of the Johnson & Johnson Medical Devices Companies, announced recently that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire the assets of Medical Enterprises Distribution, LLC, which includes the...more

Teleflex Acquires UroLift® Maker NeoTract for $1.1 Billion

Wayne, Pennsylvania-based Teleflex Inc. announced it will purchase privately-held NeoTract Inc. for approximately $1.1 billion. According to the press release, Teleflex will pay NeoTract $725 million when the deal closes and...more

Philips Buys RespirTech for Undisclosed Amount

Dutch conglomerate Philips recently announced that it will purchase Respiratory Technologies Inc. (RespirTech). According to its website, RespirTech describes itself as a St. Paul, Minnesota-based provider of inCourage vests,...more

EU Finalizes Medical Device Regulations

The European Council has released the final versions of its Medical Device Regulations (MDR) and In Vitro Diagnostics Regulations (IVDR). According to JDSupra, the Council of the European Union will vote on March 7, 2017...more

Medical Device Investor Forum - Oct. 27-28 in Irvine, CA - Knobbe Medical

OCTANe, an Orange County-based non-profit life sciences and technology accelerator organization, has announced the agenda for its 11th Annual Medical Device & Investor Forum (MDIF), which will be held on October 27-28, 2016,...more

Zimmer Biomet Buys LDR Holding for $1 Billion

Warsaw, Indiana-based Zimmer Biomet Holdings Inc. recently announced it will purchase LDR Holding Corp. for approximately $1.0 billion. PR Newswire notes that Zimmer Biomet will commence a tender offer to acquire all...more

Box DICOM Viewer Cleared as Class II Medical Device

California-based Box Inc. announced recently that the FDA has cleared the company’s DICOM Viewer as a Class II Medical device. DICOM, which stands for Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine, is the standard for the...more

TransEnterix Acquires ALF-X for $99.8 Million

Research Triangle Park, North Carolina-based TransEnterix, Inc. announced today that it has acquired the surgical robotics division of SOFAR S.p.A., an Italian health care company. According to the announcement, the deal is a...more

Medtronic to Acquire Transcatheter Mitral Valve Startup

Medtronic recently agreed to pay up to $458 million for California-based Twelve, Inc., a privately-held developer of transcatheter mitral valve replacement devices. The terms of the deal include $408 million at closing and...more

Abbott Expands Presence in Heart Valve Repair

Illinois-based Abbott Laboratories recently announced two transactions intended to increase Abbott’s presence in mitral valve replacement therapy and bolster its structural heart portfolio. First, Abbott will acquire...more

8/14/2015  /  Acquisitions , Medical Devices

Expedited Access Program Begins For Medical Devices

On April 15th, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) began its Expedited Access Program (EAP), which is designed to get certain medical devices to market sooner. Under the EAP program, device sponsors collaborate...more

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