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Topic: Cook Medical

Cook Medical is first to win FDA approval of drug-eluting stent for peripheral artery disease

Cook Medical is first to win FDA approval of drug-eluting stent for peripheral artery disease

November 15, 2012 4:39 pm by | 0 Comments

Cook Medical has received FDA approval for the first drug-eluting stent to treat peripheral artery disease in the U.S.The Zilver PTX Drug-Eluting Peripheral Stent is a self-expanding metal stent coated ... Read more
Cook Medical opens 10th business unit focused on devices for head and neck surgeries

Cook Medical opens 10th business unit focused on devices for head and neck surgeries

September 10, 2012 9:00 am by | 1 Comments

It may have shelved its manufacturing expansion plans earlier this summer, but Cook Medical Inc. is expanding in other ways, launching a new strategic business unit to develop innovative medical ... Read more
ACA’s 2013 medical device tax has already killed jobs, expansion plans

ACA’s 2013 medical device tax has already killed jobs, expansion plans

April 16, 2012 8:00 am by | 6 Comments

The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) includes a new 2.3% tax on the U.S. sale of medical devices beginning in 2013. The tax was included to raise $20 ... Read more
Basketball or biomedicine? Indiana’s March Madness schools win at both

Basketball or biomedicine? Indiana’s March Madness schools win at both

March 15, 2012 11:53 am by | 1 Comments

What do Purdue University, Indiana University and the University of Notre Dame have in common — besides that they’re Indiana teams playing the 2012 NCAA tournament?They’re all great schools for ... Read more
Cook Medical’s GI stent granted FDA 510(k) clearance

Cook Medical’s GI stent granted FDA 510(k) clearance

October 18, 2011 5:57 pm by | 0 Comments

A gastrointestinal stent from Cook Medical now has 510 (k) clearance from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for use in patients suffering GI obstructions caused by cancer.Bloomington, Indiana-based Cook ... Read more
Cook Medical caps capital investment in U.S., cites medical device tax

Cook Medical caps capital investment in U.S., cites medical device tax

October 14, 2011 11:36 am by | 0 Comments

When the topic of the 2.3 percent medical device excise tax arises, Cook Medical‘s Scott Sewell is quick to frame the discussion around jobs.Of Bloomington, Indiana-based Cook’s roughly 10,000 employees, ... Read more
WebMD… the next takeover target? (Morning Read)

WebMD… the next takeover target? (Morning Read)

September 27, 2010 8:28 am by | 0 Comments

WedbMD's consumer portal ranks as the top health site on the Web, and the company’s financials are very healthy. It could be an attractive target for any offline media company ... Read more
Best of MedCitizens: Meaningful use and innovation

Best of MedCitizens: Meaningful use and innovation

July 31, 2010 4:14 am by | 0 Comments (Sponsored)

Every week MedCity News highlights the best of its MedCitizens: syndication partners and MedCity News readers who also contribute to MedCityNews.com. The MedCitizens are sponsored by MyPRGenie, the only Do-It-Yourself, ... Read more
Cook Medical: From past to present to future

Cook Medical: From past to present to future

July 26, 2010 8:54 pm by | 0 Comments

Cook Medical Group and Boston Scientific Corp. (NYSE:BSX) both got their start with catheter-based devices, but the medical device giants’ similarities don’t stop there. As Boston Scientific founder John Abele ... Read more
Boston Scientific co-founder Abele on innovation, healthcare reform

Boston Scientific co-founder Abele on innovation, healthcare reform

June 11, 2010 12:40 pm by | 0 Comments

Boston Scientific Corp. co-founder John Abele, in the second installment of a lengthy interview, on the early days with Peter Nicholas, his take on demands for increased transparency and his ... Read more