Medical Industry Week

Table of Contents

• 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