Boston Scientific

Boston Scientific is a global medical device company, the 8th largest (based on annual sales, which were over $8 billion in 2010). It is the world's second largest maker of heart devices; prod...

The Top 10 Medical Device Companies

Medical devices are crucial to the process of diagnosis and treatment in modern medicine. Sales in this field reach billions of dollar a year, with Johnson & Johnson making $30 billion alone in...

Middle East

The Middle East has a wealth of biotechnology companies and is an important player in the global biotechnology industry. Following a World Summit on the Information Society, Arab countries are str...

Carolina

Carolina, on the southeastern US coast is a hotbed for biotechnology companies. The regional industry support organization, The North Carolina Biotechnology Center, is the oldest of its type in th...

Forensics

Many questions in the legal system can be answered using scientific techniques. These are termed forensics. Examples inlcude fingerprint recognition, DNA databases, iris (eye) indentification and...

2012 NP & PA Salary Survey Results

Unlike the falling salary numbers of 2011, nurse practitioners and physician assistants have regained momentum, reporting increased salaries and hourly wages across the board. In 2012, one professio...

Salary Differences by Gender—Reply

In Reply: We observed a substantial gender difference in salary within a relatively homogenous population of physician researchers both in a full model (including 20 independent variables that might c...

Boston Scientific Trial Scratched from Program

The American College of Cardiology pulled a study of the Watchman heart device from its scientific program because Boston Scientific released study data ahead of a scheduled presentation Saturday.

Boston Scientific CFO: "The portfolio is there. Now it's all about execution."

Boston Scientific CFO Jeffrey Capello tells MassDevice.com how the medical device company plans to pull itself out of one of  -More- 

[Fukuda Denshi] gets Japanese rights to [Boston Scientific]’s {Precision Plus} neuromodulator

Beginning on April 1, 2013, [Fukuda Denshi Co. Ltd.] (medical electronics equipment) will have Japanese distribution rights to {Precision Plus} neuromodulation system and related accessories from [Bos...

Use of New Boston Scientific Device Should Be Limited

Boston Scientific Corp's new leadless implantable heart defibrillator, hailed by some as a breakthrough, should be used on a limited basis until more data are collected. Reuters Health Information

Boston Scientific picks former J&J exec to lead Chinese operations

Warren Wang has been tapped by Boston Scientific to serve as its new operations vice president and managing director in Shang -More- 

Boston Scientific Offers More Muddle-Through

By Stephen Simpson:It was never part of the plan for Boston Scientific (BSX) to have a sudden return to growth in the third quarter (or 2012, for that matter), so it's hard for me to be disappointed b...

Stereotype threat in salary negotiations is mediated by reservation salary.

Tellhed, U. & Björklund, F. (2010). Stereotype threat in salary negotiations is mediated by reservation salary. Scandinavian Journal of Psychology. Women are stereotypically perceived as worse negoti...

Colloquium on rethinking the future of scientific communication.

ERRATUM: Cascading Failures in Bi-partite Graphs: Model for Systemic Risk Propagation.

Primary Endpoint Results of the EVOLVE Trial: A Randomized Evaluation of a Novel Bioabsorbable Polymer-Coated, Everolimus-Eluting Coronary Stent.

This study sought to compare the safety and efficacy of 2 dose formulations of SYNERGY, a novel bioabsorbable polymer everolimus-eluting stent (EES) (Boston Scientific Corp., Natick, Massachusetts) co...

Gender Differences in the Salaries of Physician ResearchersGender Differences in Physician Researcher Salaries.

CONTEXT It is unclear whether male and female physician researchers who perform similar work are currently paid equally. OBJECTIVES To determine whether salaries differ by gender in a relatively homog...