Medical Devices Today

A New Era Dawns in Physician-Device Industry Relationships

Article preview reprinted Medtech Insight - March, 2009 

The push for transparency in the health care industry has moved beyond initial regulations focused on hospital safety disclosures and is now taking on longstanding marketing practices by manufacturers.

A New Chapter for Device VCs?

Article preview reprinted from Start-Up - March, 2009

The current economic crisis is hard on everyone, including investors and start-ups. But the news isn't all bad for medical device VCs. Those with capital will find the prices to be right in today's depressed economy.

Stanmore: Creating a Specialty Orthopedics Company

Article preview reprinted from IN VIVO - March, 2009       

Long a pioneer in prosthetics, one of orthopedics' forgotten spaces, Stanmore Implants Worldwide, has a new investor group who hope to transform this once academic supplier into a thriving orthopedics player by focusing on specialty niches that the Ortho giants have largely ignored.     

MedPAC Study Finds Self-Referring Doctors Drive Up Imaging Use, Costs

Full article reprinted from "The Gray Sheet" - April 13, 2009

Find out how Medicare patients are more likely to receive imaging services when treated by doctors who refer most patients to their own practices for imaging scans than when treated by doctors who refer most patients to practices in which they do not have a financial stake, according to a study from the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission.

FDA Seeks International Joint Replacement Data; Is A U.S. Registry In Sight?

Full article reprinted from "The Gray Sheet" - April 13, 2009

Find out how FDA is looking to tap into international joint replacement device registry data to study the long-term safety and effectiveness of artificial hips, knees, ankles and other joints.

Nearly 10,000 New Facilities To Be Built In China Under Final Health Plan

Full article reprinted from "The Gray Sheet" - April 13, 2009

Find out how under a health care reform plan finalized April 6, the Chinese government will spend $123 billion by 2011 to expand medical services to the entire nation.

Tianjin To Establish Quality Test Center For Medical Devices

Full translation summary from PharmAsia News - April 06, 2009

According to Tianjin municipal FDA, the city's medical device quality test and supervision center is stepping up the pace of constructing its RMB 100 million building.

Oversubscribed Series C round brings in $31.2mm for NeoMatrix

Deal summary reprinted from Strategic Transactions - March 2009

NeoMatrix (breast disease-screening device) has raised $31.2mm through its oversubscribed Series C venture round, which closed in three tranches to individual investors. The company had originally planned to raise $10mm.

Emphysema Devices Search for Breathing Room

Article preview reprinted Medtech Insight - March, 2009 

Find out how interventional pulmonology is a burgeoning field for medical device manufacturers. It is ripe with opportunities to develop minimally invasive solutions for patients with chronic progressive lung disease.

Corporations Chiming In On Device Financings

Article preview reprinted from Start-Up - March, 2009

With public market capitalizations sagging and venture capitalists hesitant to commit new capital, large publicly traded medical device companies were expected to feast on capital-starved device start-ups during this recession.