22 February 2012
Two of Medtronic 's biggest units, implantable cardioverter defibrillator (ICD) and spine, continued to be hit, especially in the US, by challenging market conditions, resulting in sharp declines in sales of both products during its third fiscal ...
21 February 2012
The managing director of Olympus Medical Systems in India,
Tsutomi Omori
, has been found hanged in a park in Delhi in an apparent suicide.
The Olympus group, which specialises in medical equipment such as endoscopes and imaging equipment, as well ...
20 February 2012
Implantable medical device firm Greatbatch has purchased neuroscience specialist NeuroNexus Technologies for $12m in cash, bolstering its offering in the neuromodulation segment.
Ann Arbor, Michigan-based NeuroNexus develops and commercialises ...
20 February 2012
Synthes's fourth-quarter revenue grew by just 2% year-on-year, to $991.7m, weighed down by weakness in North America, where the company generates the biggest proportion of its revenue.
Sales in this region declined 2%, at $539.3m, primarily due to ...