Devicemakers news and information

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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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 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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