Devices - medical, biotech, pharma

A medical device is a product which is used for medical purposes in patients, in diagnosis, therapy or surgery.  Medical devices act by physical, mechanical, thermal, physico-chemical or chemic...

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...

Covidien

Covidien is the 9th largest global medical device company with annual sales in 2010 of almost $8 billion. Covidien was originally Tyco Healthcare, until June 2007, and has seen year-on-year growth s...

Abbott

The 11th largest pharmaceutical company in the world, Abbott Laboratories generated sales of $16 billion in 2009 and has 90,000 employees. Within the medical device arm of the company, products of...

GE Healthcare

Ranked as the third largest medical device company in the world (based on annual sales), GE Healthcare generates $16 billion in sales each year. GEs' area of expertise is the imaging that is i...

First Vaginal Mesh Lawsuit Trials in Federal C.R. Bard Avaulta Mesh Litigation To Begin, Reports Wright & Schulte LLC

Columbus, OH (PRWEB) April 08, 2013 The Vaginal mesh lawyers at the experienced medical device injury law firm of Wright & Schulte LLC look forward to the start of bellwether trials in the fede...

Transvaginal Mesh Lawsuits Move Forward, as Next Status Conference in Federal Transvaginal Mesh Litigation is Scheduled for April 18th, Wright & Schulte LLC Reports

Columbus, OH (PRWEB) April 17, 2013 Wright & Schulte LLC, an experienced medical device injury law firm representing women in transvaginal mesh lawsuits , reports that a Joint Transvaganal Me...

New Transvaginal Mesh Lawsuit in American Medical Systems Pelvic Mesh Litigation filed by Wright & Schulte LLP is Underway in West Virginia Federal Court

Columbus, OH (PRWEB) January 19, 2013 Wright & Schulte LLC, a leading nationwide law firm and Ohio personal injury law firm, has filed a transvaginal mesh lawsuit on behalf of an Ohio woman w...

Kips Bay files second IDE application for eSVS Mesh device

Kips Bay Medical has submitted to the FDA a second investigational device exemption application for its eSVS Mesh system, whi -More- 

Transvaginal Mesh Lawsuit News: More than 2,850 Bladder Mesh Lawsuits Have Been Filed against Ethicon in New Jersey’s Atlantic County Superior Court, Reports Wright & Sch

Columbus, OH (PRWEB) June 11, 2013 Wright & Schulte LLC, an experienced defective medical device law firm reports the number of vaginal mesh lawsuits being filed against Ethicon continues t...

Transvaginal Mesh Lawsuit News: Bernstein Liebhard LLP Notes Scheduling of First Bellwether Trial in New Jersey C.R. Bard Pelvic Mesh Litigation

New York, New York (PRWEB) May 04, 2013 Transvaginal mesh lawsuits involving products manufactured by C.R. Bard, Inc. continue to move forward in New Jersey’s Atlantic County Supreme Court,...

[Kips Bay Medical] nets just over $6mm through a FOPO

Cardiovascular device developer [Kips Bay Medical Inc.] has netted just over $6mm through the follow-on public offering of 10mm common shares at $0.65. The company will use the money to get US regulat...

First U.S. patient is enrolled in study of Kips Bay's mesh device

Kips Bay Medical said its eSVS Mesh system has been implanted for the first time in the U.S.  -More- 

Comparing laparoscopic mesh fixation strength between articulated and non-articulated tack devices.

Abstract Aim: The iMESH Tacker™ (IMT) device is a device which simplifies laproscopic hernia repair by enabling an articulation of the device tip. The study compares the strength of mesh fixation be...

Neointima-inducing inflow cannula with titanium mesh for left ventricular assist device.

The formation of wedge thrombus is a crucial problem in any left ventricular assist device (LVAD) with a left ventricle apical inflow cannula. We therefore developed a new titanium mesh wrapped inflow...

Flexible tack for ventral hernia repair.

A mesh repair of a ventral hernia from the anterior approach is relatively difficult because it is necessary to fix the edge of the mesh from the hernial orifice. We developed a flexible tack for hern...

Ventral hernia mesh tack causes liver hemorrhage.

INTRODUCTION: The laparoscopic approach is an increasingly popular option for ventral hernia repair. In the wake of this new technology, unexpected complications have been reported. CASE PRESENTATION:...

Degradation, infection and heat effects on polypropylene mesh for pelvic implantation: what was known and when it was known.

Many properties of polypropylene mesh that are causative in producing the complications that our patients are experiencing were published in the literature prior to the marketing of most currently use...