Zimmer Biomet to Buy Fellow Medical Device Maker LDR Holding

According to the Wall Street Journal, “Zimmer Biomet Holdings Inc. said Tuesday it would buy fellow medical device maker LDR Holding Corp. for $1.07 billion, a move to beef up its presence in the global spine market.”  For more information on this merger,...

Study Shows MRI Technology Faster At Diagnosing Sepsis

“Sepsis is a blood borne infection, where the speed of diagnosis may mean the difference between prolonged stay in the hospital in a compromised stay, sometimes even death, and quick recovery without injury to other organs,” states an article via...

These Threats Can Take Down a Device Company

“Too big to fail? Not in the device industry.  In fact, the two largest device companies to default in the last 30 years were taken down by product liability claims related to non-key products. That’s one takeaway from a report published earlier this year...

Ingestible Origami Robot Unfolds In Stomach

According to Med Device Online, “An international team of scientists centered at MIT have further developed a tiny ingestible robot that unfolds from a capsule once swallowed, and could be used to retrieve foreign objects or patch wounds.  New additions to the...