Going into the New Year, there was nothing but optimism that healthcare companies would continue the buying spree that colored 2012. But mergers and acquisitions in 2013 opened with a whimper. FULL STORY »
By Modern Healthcare staff | May 14, 2013
| Basic Web
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. FULL STORY »
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. FULL STORY »
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. FULL STORY »
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. FULL STORY »
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. FULL STORY »
By Modern Healthcare | March 09, 2013
| Print Magazine
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... FULL STORY »
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. FULL STORY »
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. FULL STORY »
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. FULL STORY »
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