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Shares of the medical device maker rose 1.5% in afternoon trading. The approval makes the device, branded Agent, the first drug-coated balloon catheter in the U.S. to treat coronary in-stent ...
The next day, Boston Scientific increased their bid to $25 billion, followed the next day by Johnson & Johnson increasing their bid to $24.2 billion. It was not until January 17 that Boston Scientific produced a new offer of $27.2 billion ($80 per share), with the help of Abbott Laboratories. Abbott agreed to purchase $1.4 billion of Boston ...
Boston Scientific Corporation (BSC), headquartered in Marlborough, Massachusetts and incorporated in Delaware, [2] is an American biotechnology and biomedical engineering firm and multinational manufacturer of medical devices used in interventional medical specialties, including interventional radiology, interventional cardiology, peripheral interventions, neuromodulation, neurovascular ...
"AICD" was trademarked by the Boston Scientific corporation, so the more generic "ICD" is preferred terminology. A single chamber ICD with its right ventricular lead connected into the header; note, starting from the end of the lead, the tip and adjacent first ring, used to sense the cardiac electrical activity and stimulate the right ventricle ...
A coronary stent is a tube-shaped device placed in the coronary arteries that supply blood to the heart, ... (the Boston Scientific TAXUS paclitaxel-eluting stent ...
Medtronic's main competitors in the cardiac rhythm field include Boston Scientific and St. Jude Medical. In 1997, Medtronic opened a production site for implantable pacemakers and brain pacemakers in Tolochenaz, Switzerland. One in five pacemakers implanted globally today is made here. The site is also used as a European training centre for ...
Authorities in Boston have charged a woman with murder in connection with the death of an attorney found on a houseboat in a marina over the weekend. Joseph Donohue, 65, ...
Boston Scientific's Flextome is the most widely used cutting balloon. Cutting balloons have also been used in the treatment of refractory or recurrent laryngotracheal stenosis , particularly in cases where a dense ring of circumferential fibrosis has formed in the trachea or either bronchus '.