European regulators have approved the delivery of Medtronic‘s CoreValve System using a new direct aortic approach in patients with severe aortic stenosis.Transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) is a less-invasive alternative ...
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Life science current events this week include a new Israeli medical device company in Cleveland, updates on Cleveland Clinic medical companies, Medtronic CoreValve news and new opportunities in North Carolina ...
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Medtronic Inc. announced Tuesday that its CoreValve System, designed to enable the replacement of a diseased aortic valve without open heart surgery, showed health improvements over a two-year period on ...
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The protracted battle over transcatheter heart valves between Medtronic Inc. (NYSE:MDT) and Edwards Lifesciences Inc. (NYSE:EW) will be decided in the streets rather than the courts. ...
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Medtronic Inc. (NYSE:MDT) managed to find the silver lining in the dark cloud that is a $74 million patent infringement judgment against it when a federal judge denied an Edwards ...
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December 9, 2010 12:26 pm by Thomas Lee | 0 Comments
Medtronic Inc. (NYSE:MDT) said Thursday that European regulators have approved its valve replacement technology to treat patients suffering from severe aortic stenosis. The company based in Fridley, Minnesota, said its ...
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November 15, 2010 7:23 pm by Thomas Lee | 0 Comments
On Wall Street, you're only as good as your next acquisition. Try telling that to Medtronic Inc. (NYSE:MDT). Over the past two years, the Fridley, Minnesota, medical device maker purchased ...
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September 15, 2010 2:59 pm by Thomas Lee | 0 Comments
When you're the richest kid on the block, it's easy to make friends. For Medtronic Inc. (NYSE: MDT), those friends happen to be investment bankers and venture capitalists. And the ...
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If the United States truly wants to boost the economy and narrow its ginormous trade deficit, then medical technology would seem like a good place to start.Minnesota’s bread-and-butter industry generated ...
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Medtronic Inc. (NYSE: MDT) said two-year results from a clinical study demonstrate the durability and efficacy of its CoreValve catheter-based heart valve replacement system.The 126-patient study in Canada and Europe ...
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April 2, 2010 10:58 am by Brandon Glenn | 0 Comments
Medtronic Inc. lost the latest round in a long-running legal dispute when a jury found that its CoreValve heart valve system infringes on patents held by Edwards Lifecsciences Inc.The case ...
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March 12, 2010 3:14 pm by Brandon Glenn | 0 Comments
Medtronic Inc. has begun what’s expected to be a 1,000-patient study of a catheter-based system that it hopes will become a less-invasive–and highly lucrative–alternative to open heart surgery for valve ...
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February 8, 2010 2:21 pm by Brandon Glenn | 0 Comments
Dan Lemaitre will lead the new White Pine Medical fund, which will receive a financing commitment of "up to" $50 million from Essex Woodlands Health Ventures. ...
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February 23, 2009 3:25 pm by Mary Vanac | 1 Comments
Minneapolis medical device company Medtronic Inc. on Monday acquired one heart valve technology maker and agreed to buy another. The moves push the medical-devices giant further into the market of ...
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