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- Centerpulse accepts £1.5 billion offer from S&N
- CORPORATE NEWS
- Biocompatibles agrees settlement with Isostent
- Bausch & Lomb/CIBA Vision patent battle reaches Ireland
- UK' s OFT makes final decision on Coloplast/SSL transaction
- Guidant to acquire Biosensors' everolimus-eluting stent programme
- Tds targets telemedicine opportunities in the UK and US
- Integra buys manufacturer of surgical instruments
- CORPORATE NEWS IN BRIEF
- AGREEMENT NEWS
- Accuray agrees CyberKnife purchase and placement contracts
- Boston Scientific and Osiris to develop and commercialise MSC technology
- Extension of agreement to evaluate Antares Pharma' s mini-needle technology
- GE subsidiary signs pact with Edwards Lifesciences
- Siemens helps develop all-digital healthcare facility in Temple, TX
- GEMS/EMC provide integrated healthcare solutions
- Nellcor agrees supply contract with Consorta
- Wright Medical extends links with LifeCell
- AGREEMENT NEWS IN BRIEF
- FINANCIAL NEWS
- Smiths Medical maintains growth despite increased R&D spending
- Analogic announces record quarterly sales and earnings
- Tyco pursues aggressive cost cutting programme; internal review highlights
“issues” in core division
- New product introductions drive growth for Essilor
- Centerpulse forecasts growth in core markets
- FINANCIAL NEWS IN BRIEF
- PRODUCT NEWS
- Profile Therapeutics offers new device for delivering nebulised
antibiotics to CF patients
- Cook offers new product for inguinal hernia repair.
- BioElectronics' soft tissue therapy patch approved for US distribution
- FDA approves Inamed' s new dermal filler products
- FDA clears new series of Imbibe syringes
- Three new products launched to enhance vaccination safety
- FDA approves reprocessing medical devices by Alliance Medical
- HealthTronics cleared to market new device for chronic lateral
epicondylitis
- Tyco unit offers new nasal CPAP systems
- Datex-Ohmeda offers new solutions for accessing clinical information
- TissueLink widens scope for proprietary technology.
- Siemens unveils new patient monitoring systems at
- ISICEM
- CPC is cleared to market counterpulsation device using non-compressed air.
- PRODUCT NEWS IN BRIEF
- R&D NEWS
- Boston Scientific' s TAXUS programme granted expedited review" status by
the FDA
- Medicare panel backs reimbursement coverage for LVADs.
- NMT Medical' s CLOSURE 1 trial gains conditional approval
- Aradigm' s AERx iDMS produces reproducible dosing in asthmatics and smokers
- Curon releases data from clinical trial of GORD treatment.
- First US-based “robotic” catheterisation procedure with
Stereotaxis technology completed
- Provectus tests laser treatment for ocular melanoma
- TheraCyte to use human cell lines in diabetes implant treatment
- R&D NEWS IN BRIEF
- TABLE OF CONTENTS
- COMPANY INDEX
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