Month: April 2007

San Diego-based CryoCor has raised $5.45 million in a private placement with a group of accredited investors. The company sold 1,052,423 shares of common stock […]

The governor of Pennsylvania has launched a new program to help attract venture capital to the state’s emerging companies, including those in the life sciences field. […]

Iapyx Medical, a San Diego firm that makes single-use medical devices, today introduced two products for reducing the risk of common hospital-acquired infections. The Stable-Line […]

Life sciences venture funding reached an all-time high in the first quarter of 2007, with 36% of total investments going toward the sector. Medical device […]

A piece from the current issue of The American focuses on three small med tech firms’ efforts to reverse blindness — and the challenges such companies face […]

Evera Medical (formerly Juva Medical), of Foster City, CA, has received CE Mark approval for a saline-filled implant for facial soft tissue augmentation called FulFil. The […]

In the May issue of SmartMoney, the magazine picks its top-10 stocks for the next 10 years. To make the first cut, companies had to […]

IntriCon Corporation, an Arden Hills, MN, company that makes miniature medical and electronics products, has agreed to buy privately held Tibbetts Industries for $4.5 million […]

FDA signed off yesterday on a new test for identifying Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MSRA), the leading cause of hospital-acquired infections. The Xpert MSRA test, made […]