Today, Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, the Chairman of the Committee on Oversight and Reform, launched one of the most wide-ranging investigations in decades into the prescription drug industry’s pricing practices....
Shares of Medtronic fell 6.5% after Medtronic CEO, Omar Ishrak, said during a presentation at the J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference that sales would fall at the mid-point of the company's yearly projections due to softness in their cardiac and vascular divisions....
On the first day of the J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference, Amgen announced they would lower the list price of monthly doses for their cholesterol lowering medicine Repatha by 60%. ...
The connection between sports and leadership cannot be denied. Sales leaders and executives are always looking to examples from the sports world to use as motivation for their organizations. ...
As TransEnterix CEO, Todd Pope, gets ready to present at the J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference later this afternoon, the company provided a corporate update highlighting their capital sales and revenue for the fourth quarter....
Bristol-Myers Squibb ($BMY) and Celgene ($CELG) announced that they have entered into a definitive merger agreement under which Bristol-Myers Squibb will acquire Celgene in a cash and stock transaction with an equity value of approximately $74 billion....
Medtronic plc ($MDT) and its strategic technology partner, IBM ($IBM) Watson Health, announced a new feature for the Sugar.IQ personal diabetes assistant app called IQcast. Using artificial intelligence (AI) technology from IBM Watson Health, the feature aims to predict the likelihood of an individual experiencing a low glucose event within an upcoming 1-4 hour window....
Titan Medical ($TMDI) affirmed their regulatory filing timeline for their SPORT Surgical System, with a 510(k) submission expected by the end of 2019 as a result of discussions with FDA....
2018 was an exciting year for Medtechy and we would like to thank you all for visiting, reading and sharing. Over the course of 2018, we launched a number of new features to our site, including a new home page with up-to-date news and insight for the medical technology industry....
The Department of Justice announced that they recovered more than $2.8 billion in settlements and judgments from civil cases involving fraud and false claims against the government in the fiscal year ending Sept. 30, 2018....