Investing in a medical device company these days does not come cheap. Venture capitalists said at a panel during Thursday’s MedTech Investing Conference in Minneapolis that the cost and risk of bringing medical device start-ups to market has gotten so expensive, it has caused at least one of them to change their business model. Jan Garfinkle, [...]

SOURCE Boston Scientific CorporationNATICK, Mass., March 3, 2011 /PRNewswire/ — Boston Scientific Corporation (NYSE: BSX) today announced the completion of its acquisition of Atritech, Inc. of Plymouth, Minnesota. The completion of the transaction follows the signing of a definitive merger agreement announced on January 19, 2011. Atritech’s WATCHMAN Left Atrial Appendage Closure Technology gives Boston Scientific an innovative product [...]

MINNEAPOLIS–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Medtronic, Inc. (NYSE: MDT) today announced that it has completed the purchase of rights to a chitosan-dextran gel technology from Adelaide Research & Innovation Pty Ltd. (the commercial development company of the University of Adelaide) in Australia, Robinson Squidgel Ltd., and Otago Innovation Ltd. (a University of Otago company) in New Zealand. Medtronic is [...]

Launching and hoping for accurate target market hits…curasan AG and Stryker S.A., Montreux, Switzerland, have signed an agreement to sell and market bone replacement and regeneration materials for a variety of orthopedic indications. In summer 2011, Stryker anticipates launching the products in selected European countries to be potentially followed by further target markets. “Partnering with [...]

SAN DIEGO, Jan. 31, 2011 /PRNewswire/ — Volcano Corporation (Nasdaq:VOLC – News) said today that the Superior Court of Massachusetts has issued a decision that ruled in favor of Volcano and its wholly-owned subsidiary Axsun Technologies, Inc., and against LightLab Imaging, Inc., on all of LightLab’s remaining claims for trade secret misappropriation. The 11-page decision [...]