NxStage Hopes Medisystems Acquisition Brings Profitability
NxStage Medical, a Lawrence, MA, company that makes dialysis systems, plans to acquire the private company whose cartridges are used in its NxStage System One […]
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Pioneer Boosts Orthobiologics Presence With Encelle Deal
Pioneer Surgical Technology, a Marquette, MI, company that makes spinal and orthopedic implants, furthered its committment to orthobiologics yesterday, when it entered an agreement to […]
Telecom Entrepreneur Sinks Cash into Med Tech Startup
An Irish entrepreneur has decided to stray from his normal playing field of telecommunications to invest in a startup medical device company after becoming impressed […]
Generic Medical Devices Puts Feet on the Street
Gig Harbor, WA-based Generic Medical Devices (GMD) has formed a U.S. sales team to start pushing its low-cost devices. GMD, the first company in the medical […]
Organogenesis Gets Funding to Stay in Massachusetts
Governor Deval Patrick of Massachusetts now has at least one example that his $1 billion life sciences initiative, unveiled last month at the BIO convention […]
Opko to Acquire Complimentary Diagnostics Firm
Miami-based Opko Health (formerly known as eXegenics) today announced plans to acquire a diagnostic imaging firm that would compliment its portfolio of ophthalmic therapeutics. The […]
Axxora Deal Boosts Enzo’s International Distribution
Enzo Biochem, of New York, NY, said yesterday that it would buy Axxora Life Sciences, a private company based in San Diego that makes life sciences […]
Telemedicine Addresses Rising Healthcare Costs
A recent article in The New York Times discusses TeleStroke, a telemedicine program being offered by Brigham and Women’s and Massachusetts General Hospitals in Boston. […]
FDA Green Lights Harvest’s Stem Cell Trial
Harvest Technologies, a Plymouth, MA, company that uses stem cells from bone marrow to treat critical limb ischemia, received the go-ahead yesterday from FDA to […]
Next-Generation Psych Treatments
An article published yesterday in Technology Review discusses two new technologies being developed to improve psychiatric treatment. The first, from Norwood, MA-based Aspect Medical Systems, […]