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FDA Advisory Panel Unanimously Recommends Expanded Indication for Boston Scientific's Heart Failure Devices Based on Landmark MADIT-CRT Trial

PRNewswire | 7 hours 15 minutes ago

NATICK, Mass., March 18 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Boston Scientific Corporation (NYSE: BSX) today announced that the Circulatory System Devices Panel of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has unanimously recommended approval of an expanded indication for its cardiac resynchronization therapy defibrillators (CRT-Ds), including the COGNIS® CRT-D.  The panel recommended the expansion include the majority of the studied population of the landmark MADIT-CRT clinical trial, which evaluated...... (more)


Coughlin Stoia Geller Rudman & Robbins LLP Files Class Action Suit against St. Jude Medical, Inc.

Business Wire | 9 hours 15 minutes ago

Coughlin Stoia Geller Rudman & Robbins LLP (“Coughlin Stoia”) (http://www.csgrr.com/cases/stjudemedical/) today announced that a class action has been commenced on behalf of an institutional investor in the United States District Court for the District of Minnesota on behalf of purchasers of the common stock of St. Jude Medical, Inc. (“St. Jude” or the “Company”) (NYSE:STJ) between April 22, 2009 and October 6, 2009, inclusive (the “Class Period”), seeking to pursue remedies under the Securit...... (more)


Standard & Poor's Announces Changes to U.S. Indices

PRNewswire | 9 hours 15 minutes ago

NEW YORK, March 18 /PRNewswire/ -- S&P MidCap 400 constituent Cerner Corp. (NASD: CERN) will replace BJ Services Co. (NYSE: BJS) in the S&P 500 index, S&P SmallCap 600 constituent MEDNAX Inc. (NYSE: MD) will replace Cerner in the S&P MidCap 400, and MicroStrategy Inc. (NASD: MSTR) will replace MEDNAX in the S&P SmallCap 600 index after the close of trading on a date to be announced.  BJ Services is being acquired by S&P 100 & 500 constituent Baker Hughes Inc. in a deal expected to be complete...... (more)


Cyberonics to Present at Sidoti & Company 14th Annual Emerging Growth New York Institutional Investor Conference

PRNewswire | 11 hours 15 minutes ago

HOUSTON, March 18 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Cyberonics, Inc. (Nasdaq: CYBX) today announced that Gregory H. Browne, Cyberonics' Chief Financial Officer, will present at the Sidoti & Company 14th Annual Emerging Growth New York Institutional Investor Conference in New York on Tuesday, March 23, 2010 at 10:00 AM EDT.  Presentation slides will be available on-line at www.cyberonics.com by 8:00 AM EDT on Tuesday, March 23, 2010.  The presentation will not be webcast.... (more)


IQNavigator Client The TriZetto Group Featured at 2010 Human Capital Summit

MarketWire | 11 hours 45 minutes ago

DENVER, CO -- (Marketwire) -- 03/18/10 -- IQNavigator, Inc., a leading provider of solutions that help global companies manage spending on contract workers and outside services, today announced the inclusion of their client, The TriZetto Group, at a featured presentation at the 2010 Human Capital Summit taking place at the JW Marriott Starr Pass Resort in Tucson, AZ. ... (more)


OctoPlus announces update on publication of positive Locteron interim Phase IIb data

MarketWire | 11 hours 45 minutes ago

LEIDEN, NETHERLANDS -- (Marketwire) -- 03/16/10 -- ... (more)


Orthovita to Present at the Sidoti & Company 14th Annual NY Emerging Growth Institutional Investor Forum

Business Wire | 11 hours 45 minutes ago

Orthovita, Inc. (NASDAQ: VITA), an orthobiologics and biosurgery company, announced today that it will present at the Sidoti & Company 14th Annual NY Emerging Growth Institutional Investor Forum in New York. Antony Koblish, President and Chief Executive Officer of Orthovita, is scheduled to present on Wednesday, March 24, at 11:20 a.m. Eastern Time, at the Grand Hyatt New York, 109 East 42nd Street at Grand Central Terminal, New York, New York. This presentation will not be webcast.... (more)


Greenberg Traurig Maher Advises on US$330 Million Sale of ApaTech Limited to Baxter International

PRNewswire | 15 hours 15 minutes ago

LONDON, March 18 /PRNewswire/ -- Greenberg Traurig Maher LLP represented the private equity sellers and senior management of ApaTech Limited, a private equity-backed, UK-based orthobiologic products company, in its sale to global health care company Baxter International Inc. The transaction closed on 12 March and, as a result, Baxter acquired all of the outstanding equity of ApaTech for total consideration of up to US$330 million.... (more)


ImmunoGen, Inc. Announces Webcast of Presentation at the 2010 Barclays Capital Global Healthcare Conference

Business Wire | 15 hours 45 minutes ago

ImmunoGen, Inc. (Nasdaq: IMGN) is scheduled to present at the 2010 Barclays Capital Global Healthcare Conference at 3:45 pm ET on March 24, 2010. The Conference is being held at the Loews Miami Beach Hotel in Miami Beach, Florida. ImmunoGen’s presentation will be webcast live and can be accessed through the “Investor Information” section of our website, www.immunogen.com. An archive of the webcast will be available at the same location until April 1, 2010.... (more)


Sysmex America Honored Second Consecutive Year as a 'Company That Cares'

PRNewswire | 15 hours 45 minutes ago

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ServiceSource Announces Partnership with Cardiac Science to Enhance Service Revenue and Customer Loyalty for AED Products

Business Wire | 17 hours 44 minutes ago

ServiceSource®, the global leader in technology-based service revenue solutions for the high-tech, healthcare and life sciences industries, today announced a service renewals partnership with Cardiac Science Corporation (Nasdaq:CSCX), a global leader in automated external defibrillator (AED) and diagnostic cardiac monitoring devices that connect to electronic medical record (EMR) and hospital information systems. Cardiac Science chose ServiceSource because of its purpose-built technology plat...... (more)


CORRECTING and REPLACING Teva to Acquire ratiopharm

Business Wire | 19 hours 15 minutes ago

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Excillum and Bruker AXS Announce Collaboration to Develop X-ray Diffraction Solutions based on Novel Extremely Bright X-ray Source

Business Wire | 19 hours 15 minutes ago

Excillum and Bruker AXS today announced an exclusive collaboration to develop and market a unique new metal-jet X-ray source for X-ray diffraction applications. This novel source is the fruit of many years of research at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden. It is more than ten times brighter than the most powerful laboratory sources available. This unequalled brightness can greatly benefit any experiment that currently employs a rotating anode generator (RAG) source. Despit...... (more)




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