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When The FDA Comes Knocking, Is Your Company Prepared?
It’s become clear in the first four months of this year that the FDA is ratcheting up its efforts to protect the American consumer through stricter oversight of the life sciences industry. In both the pharmaceutical and medical device markets, the agency is investing greater time and resources in its review and oversight of individual companies and the industry as a whole, as several high-profile product-related incidents have had significant implications for consumer safety.
Partner Profile – The Perceptum Group
The Perceptum Group Contact: James Thein OR Don Wright 832 Folsom Street 10th Floor San Francisco, CA 94107 p: 415.495.3331 f: 415.357.2027 www.perceptumgroup.com info@perceptumgroup.com The Perceptum Group offers
Med device firms eye job cuts due to health-care reform tax
By Julie M. Donnelly
Source: http://www.masshightech.com/stories/2010/05/03/daily36-Med-device-firms-eye-job-cuts-due-to-health-care-reform-tax.html Local companies plan to make cuts — including job reductions — in response to the upcomingSettle, Settle, Settle
Written By: Drue De Angelis In the recent release of their 1st Quarter Financial Results, Wright Medical cryptically references a possible settlement with the DOJ for the ongoing investigation.
And the Winner is…..
James! We wanted to thank all of our commenters as every provided great information that we will try to include in our future updates. More importantly, thanks for reading
Win an iPod Shuffle
Ok, since our new site was launched over 4 months ago, let’s do a temperature check. MedDeviceJobs.com has kindly offered to give away a free iPod Shuffle to
Pricing Made Public?
Today on a popular spine industry blog site, the commentator revealed specific pricing and terms of a hospital contract with procedure specific details. Subsequently, a swell of animas
Non-Invasive Spinal Fusion?
It was announced today that the world’s first, non-invasive spinal fusion device has been cleared. A WHAT?? Something is apparently coming to market that we never thought would
Let’s Get Ready to Rumble……
Written By: Josh Sandberg It was announced today that CareFusion, the newest newcomer to balloon kyphoplasty has gone on the offensive by filing an antitrust claim against Medtronic. The
With Health Care Reform Passing, Has America, as We Know it, Passed Away?
Uh-oh! Are we in for it now or is this just what the doctor ordered? Based on a number of people that I have spoken with about this
Ka-Ching
It has been noticed by us at OSN lately that the coffers seem to have opened up again in Orthopedics and Spine. By our count, there have been
AAOS 2010
Is there anything new under the sun?? We have spent the past 4 days in New Orleans at both the Canaccord Adams and AAOS conventions and are wondering
Baxter Acquires Apatech
It was announced today that Baxter has done something Stryker seemingly has been unable (or unwilling) to. They have entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Apatech. Many
OrthoSpineNews Hits New Milestones
We have been very happy to provide news and discussion topics to you in our current/updated form for over two months now. We have seen our readership grow
Stem Cell Summit Re-Cap
By: Ben Craigs This past week, OrthoSpineNews attended Robin Young’s 5th annual Stem Cell Summit in New York City. We see this emerging market as the next frontier for