Month: August 2022

Hospitals are not taking basic security actions and have low levels of accountability regarding cyberattacks, ransomware and data theft stemming from breached medical devices, new research suggests. Over half of…

The Union Health Ministry last week released a draft of a proposed The Drugs, Medical Devices and Cosmetics Bill, 2022 to replace the existing Drugs and Cosmetics Act, 1940, and several…

Dive Brief: MedTech Europe has called for political action to stop “a growing divergence” of semiconductor supply and demand from harming patients. The trade group wants European authorities to prioritize the allocation…

      Dive Brief: Nevro and Boston Scientific have settled their intellectual property litigation. Boston Scientific is paying $85 million, on top of the $20 million previously ordered by a court,…

The company saw sales across knee and hip procedures increase, though it still faces foreign currency and supply chain challenges. Segments are growing: Even as foreign currency and supply chain challenges…

AiMeD writes to PM to change name of Department of Pharmaceuticals to include medical devices The call for a separate department for medical devices has come up again, with the…

The U.S. medical device industry hailed Wednesday’s Senate vote to appropriate $280 billion over several years to increase domestic production of computer chips, including a special fund to ensure the…

Hospital staffing problems persist:  Transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) procedures, a minimally invasive surgery to replace a thickened aortic valve, make up Edwards Lifesciences’ largest segment. The division reached its…