Contract/Manufacturing
Recipe for reform
A recent Reuters report listed medical device makers among “the winners” in the Senate bill because it, like the House version, includes a $20 billion industry tax – just half of the originally proposed $40 billion...
GE Healthcare expands home health business
GE Healthcare, Chalfont St. Giles, UK, has bought Living Independently Group Inc. to expand its home health care business...
Readers optimistic about jobs
Following a drop in jobless claims to their lowest level since January, last month’s online poll asked Medical Edge and Medical Design readers if they expect their companies’ workforces to increase, decrease, or remain the same in 2010...
Let the sunshine in?
AdvaMed (Advanced Medical Technology Association) and its medical-device member companies support shedding light on the financial relationships between the medical industry and doctors according to a New York Times report...
Readers oppose annual fees by 3:1 margin
Last month’s online poll asked Medical Edge and Medical Design readers how they feel about the proposed bill calling for medical device makers to collectively pay $4 billion in annual fees (based on market share) for 10 years to help pay for healthcare reform...
Revolution in rehabilitation
Like many her age, 20-year-old Ilana strives to stay fit. But hers is no ordinary fitness regimen. Ilana lives with cerebral palsy. And her program is...
IBM gets personal
When it comes to personalized medicine, Big Blue gets it as shown by an IBM research effort to develop a nanoscale DNA sequencer to help drive down the...
Patent infringement: What to do about it
Recent patent-infringement cases involving medical devices and instrumentation show how litigants have been able to expand or contract the base of a damages award...
Cleveland Clinic’s Top 10 include 5 devices
A panel of 60 Cleveland Clinic doctors announced its Top 10 Medical Innovations for 2010, with half being medical devices and the others being processes and drugs and research findings...
IBM gets personal
When it comes to personalized medicine, Big Blue gets it as shown by an IBM research effort to develop a nanoscale DNA sequencer to help drive down the cost of personalized genetic analysis....
