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C.R. Bard to pay $48.3 million to settle kickback case
By Modern Healthcare staff | May 14, 2013 | Basic Web Basic Web Subscription Details
Medical-device maker C.R. Bard Inc. agreed to pay $48.3 million to resolve allegations that the company illegally rewarded physicians and other customers for using its radiation seeds in the treatment of prostate cancer.
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Long wait for device identifier gets longer
By Jaimy Lee | May 07, 2013 | Basic Web Basic Web Subscription Details
It's likely to be another seven weeks before the Food and Drug Administration finalizes long-awaited regulations that will require manufacturers to mark medical devices with unique identifiers that are expected to help track products during recalls, save money and improve patient safety.
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Zimmer's legal challenge | Devicemaker faces massive liability case over knee replacement systems
By Joe Carlson | May 04, 2013 | Print Magazine Print Magazine Subscription Details
Zimmer Holdings often touts its total knee-replacement systems as the most widely used and dependable devices for patients with osteoarthritis, but more than 1,000 people are disputing that.
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Fisher named director of Dartmouth policy institute
By Melanie Evans | April 01, 2013 | Basic Web Basic Web Subscription Details
Dartmouth College's Geisel School of Medicine named Dr. Elliott Fisher to succeed Dr. James Weinstein as director of the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy & Clinical Practice, effective immediately.
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Late News: Tougher rule sought for AEDs | FDA's move part of push to change approval process for high-risk devices
By Jaimy Lee | March 23, 2013 | Print Magazine Print Magazine Subscription Details
The Food and Drug Administration plans to require the manufacturers of automated external defibrillators to submit pre-market approval applications for those devices as part of a broader effort to reclassify how some high-risk devices are regulated.
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Late News: Judge awards $8.3 million in DePuy implant trial
By Modern Healthcare | March 09, 2013 | Print Magazine Print Magazine Subscription Details
A jury Friday awarded $8.3 million to a former prison guard who accused Johnson & Johnson's DePuy Orthopaedics subsidiary of knowingly marketing a faulty hip implant that was later recalled. Jurors found that the ASR XL implant was defectively designed and caused metal poisoning and other health...
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Information
Hip implants a bit more likely to fail in women
By Associated Press via Yahoo | February 19, 2013
Hip replacements are slightly more likely to fail in women than in men, according to one of the largest studies of its kind in U.S. patients.
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Largest U.S. medical device manufacturers
By Modern Healthcare | February 16, 2013
A list of the nation's 20 largest U.S. medical device manufacturers, ranked by healthcare equipment revenue as of Feb. 1, 2013. Source: S&P Capital IQ. Published Feb. 18, 2013, p. 42.
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Balancing high costs, potential savings | ECRI highlights tech with prices that should be weighed carefully by execs
By Jaimy Lee | February 15, 2013 | Print Magazine Print Magazine Subscription Details
While several of the technologies cited on the Top 10 C-Suite Watch List have appeared in previous years, much of the focus this year is on the economic impact of new technology on hospital margins.
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Video Feature: Gerald DeSilva, corporate vice president of supply chain management at NYU Langone Medical Center
By Modern Healthcare | February 15, 2013
Gerald DeSilva, corporate vice president of supply chain management at NYU Langone Medical Center, talks to Modern Healthcare Reporter Jaimy Lee about how the New York hospital has reduced the costs of its medical supplies, including pricey devices such as hip and knee implants.
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