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Device makers under scrutiny in international bribery beef

8/16/2010


FDA seeks injunction to stop the marketing of a stem cell procedure

8/10/2010


Tylenol's side effect? A brand boycott

8/9/2010


Tech Valley educational consortium lands $1.2M grant

8/6/2010


Medical device ‘best practices’ for animal studies revealed by FDA

8/5/2010


Medical Device Makers Pan FDA Proposals: Moderate-risk Devices Would Need Approval

8/5/2010


New law impacts CATs

8/5/2010


PWC: Medical Device companies fetch $755 million in VC money during Q2

8/4/2010


Big Pharma Won't Wait in Rush for Biotech's Drugs

8/4/2010


Pay-for-Delay Ban Revived in Financial Services Appropriations Bill

8/3/2010


FDA Proposes To Shore Up Medical Device-Approval Rules

8/3/2010


What Keeps Pharma Execs Awake at Night?

7/14/2010


Local manufacturing down 8,600 jobs

7/14/2010


Business Roundtable chief to replace Tauzin at PhRMA

7/13/2010


House FDA Appropriations Bill Increases Funding for CDRH

7/12/2010


Quality of Warning Letters Is Not What It Used to Be, Industry Says

7/12/2010


Supreme Court Decision Could Help Protect Patents for Diagnostics

7/12/2010


Regulation of synthetic biology industry urged

7/9/2010


Lung cancer biomarkers lag technology, collaboration needed

7/9/2010


NY creates web tool to help implement health care law Read more: NY creates web tool to help implement health care law - The Business Review (Albany)

7/8/2010


FDA looks beyond balance in study of efficacy info

7/7/2010


NY Sets Up $50M Fund for Small Biz

7/7/2010


Health industry leaders discuss the future of drug development

7/7/2010


Device Industry Asks President to Ease US Regulatory Burden

7/7/2010


Hospitals Spend Millions on Tech Upgrades

7/2/2010


Industrial biotech gains traction, industry experts say

7/1/2010


Developing Medical Device Software to IEC 62304

6/30/2010


Harmonized Inspection Standard in CDRH’s Future, Official Says

6/28/2010


The Future of Molecular Diagnostics: Innovative technologies driving market opportunities in personalized medicine

6/23/2010


FDA Seeks Sponsor Comment on Drug Co-Development

6/16/2010


First Ready-to-Use Silicone Lubricant for the Medical Device Industry Introduced at MD&M East

6/10/2010


Merck Launches Global Trial Network For Cancer-Drug Creation

6/4/2010


New implant can reduce heart failure hospitalisations

6/1/2010


MDMA Washington Update June 2010

6/1/2010

 

Healthcare Reform Opens Door to More Whistle-Blower Suits

5/13/2010


Follow-on biologics are included in Samsung's $21 billion growth plan

5/12/2010


FDA to host public meeting on device improvements for therapeutic radiation

5/12/2010


FDA launches Bad Ad Program

5/11/2010


Gates backs 78 new projects for health innovation

5/11/2010


Quantifying pharma's online promotional shift

5/11/2010


Supercomputer With Model Simulations May Shorten Review Time for Devices

5/11/2010


FDA May Be Facing Court Fight if It Oversteps Its Authority

5/7/2010


Expert advises biotech firms to look at device firms' strategy

5/4/2010


MDMA Washington Update May 2010

5/1/2010


The State of Investments in Orthopedics

4/29/2010


Device Finance Landscape Remains Promising

4/29/2010


U.S. High-Tech Industry Sheds 245,600 Jobs in 2009

4/28/2010


FDA to Revise GMPs for Components to Protect Supply Chain

4/28/2010


FDA Changes Process for Medical Device Advisory Committees

4/26/2010


What's Hip in Orthopedic Implant Design

4/14/2010


FDA Sets New Performance Measures in Push to Improve Transparency

4/12/2010

 

CER could be soon for biopharma industry

4/8/2010

 

MDMA Washington Update April 2010

4/1/2010


New rules on generics seen as mixed blessing

3/29/2010

 

Personalized Medicine Looks to Take Step Forward with US Healthcare Reform Plan

3/22/2010


NIH Funding Immunodeficiency Disease Grants

3/22/2010


Drugmakers, non-profits to partner on TB drug development

3/19/2010


Amendment to Patent Reform Act Tightens Willfulness Standard

3/18/2010


Health Canada Issues Draft Guidance on Follow-On Biologics

3/18/2010

 

Hamburg: FDA Needs More Funding, New User Fees to Protect Patients

3/18/2010

 

Senate Approves Extension of SBA Programs

3/16/2010


Medical Device CEOs Checking The Pulse On Expenses

3/10/2010


FDA Officials Go to New Lengths to Encourage Applications for Orphan-Drug Status

3/10/2010

 

Tauzin steps down as reform goes off the rails

2/12/2010


Consolidation & connectivity in instrument development

2/12/2010


Outsourcing Market will Continue to Grow Driven by the Demand from Medical Equipment Industry

2/12/2010


California Hangs On To Its Biotech Crown, But Other States Are Luring Some Jobs

2/4/2010


CDRH: Changes to 510(k) Process in Store for Later This Year

2/2/2010


FDA Requests $4.03 Billion to Transform Food Safety System, Invest in Medical Product Safety, Regulatory Science

2/1/2010


MDMA Washington Update February 2010

2/1/2010


CDRH Taps Shuren As Permanent Head, Sets Ambitious 2010 Agenda

1/20/2010


Analysts look ahead to medical-device industry in 2010

1/15/2010


Analysis: Firms seek minor changes as health bill nears finalization

1/15/2010


Health-bill critics target individual mandate in constitutionality inquiry

1/15/2010


NCI Grants Aim to Bridge 'Valley of Death' for Dx, Prognostic, Imaging Tools

1/14/2010

MDMA Washington Update January 2010

1/1/2010


Amendment to Senate bill would delay tax on device firms until 2013

12/15/2009


Report ranks Buffalo, Rochester and Syracuse among top 20 metro areas

12/15/2009


Governor Paterson Accepts Final Report From The Task Force On Diversifying The New York State Economy Through Industry-Higher Education Partnerships

12/14/2009


Senators take on data mining

12/11/2009


Obama endorses alternative to public option in Senate health bill

12/10/2009


Democrats consider Medicare expansion as alternative to public option

12/8/2009


Senator Grassley seeks financial details from medical groups

12/7/2009


Bayer's neurology pipeline could boost its diagnostic imaging unit

12/2/2009


Orszag: Health care system may take "years to decades" to repair

12/2/2009


MDMA Washington Update December 2009

12/1/2009


Device Firms want two years to comply with electronic MDR rule

11/30/2009


Health care reform could spare medical-device firms

11/30/2009


HHS releases $80 million to train HIT workforce

11/20/2009


Experts call for more aggressive cost cutting in health care reform

11/4/2009


European initiative to set aside more than $230M for research

11/4/2009


Health reform plans do not address price, performance of devices

11/4/2009


House leaders move swiftly toward Saturday health care vote

11/4/2009


MDMA Washington Update November 2009

11/1/2009


Medical Device Lobby Wins Lower Fee in House Bill

10/26/2009


Senators work to overcome 'flawed' SGR formula, despite setbacks

10/26/2009


FDA asks for comments on guidance for third-party certification

10/23/2009


Pleas to spare med-tech firms from federal tax

10/19/2009


ONC weighs requirements for integrating consumer preferences, EHRs

10/18/2009


NIH allots more than $9M for global informatics programs

10/16/2009


White House, insurers battle over health insurance costs

10/13/2009


Trial on Azheimer's disease vaccine to use PET tracer

10/8/2009


FDA publishes PMA safety data on website

10/8/2009


MedTech conference to discuss industry challenges

10/2/2009


MDMA Washington Update October 2009

10/1/2009


Baucus to unveil health bill excluding government-run option

9/15/2009


Siemens expected to set up medical-isotope hub in New Mexico

9/14/2009

 

Minnesota Governor Opposes Tax on Medical Device Makers

9/14/2009

 

MDMA Washington Update September 2009

9/1/2009


Analysts, investors see financial benefits of health care overhaul

8/24/2009

 

Fda To Keep Investigators' Data Confidential

8/24/2009

 

FDA Names Bioethicist as Senior Adviser

8/17/2009


What is Nuclear Medicine Week?

8/17/2009


New Screening Could Lead to More Potent Cancer Drugs

8/13/2009


$eed NY Website is now Live

8/12/2009


CDRH Director Dan Schultz Resigns

8/11/2009


Obama Hospital Deal Pressures Device Makers, J&J Says (Update2)

8/7/2009


Don’t Wait For Health Care Reform, Medical-Tech Investors

8/5/2009


SUNY chancellor visits DCC

8/5/2009


FDA, Europeans collaborate on drug trial practices

8/4/2009


Biotech Startups Turn To Big Pharma For Survival

8/3/2009


510(k) Sponsors Should Be Wary Of Informal Talk With FDA, Attorney Says

8/3/2009


Global Medtech Companies and Medtech VCs Will Disclose Investment Preferences at Elsevier's 'Medical Device Investor Day' in San Francisco October 19th

8/3/2009

 

New EU Regulation encourages SMEs and ATMP/device product development

7/29/2009


Under New Leadership, FDA Diagnostics Office To Tighten Its Control

7/27/2009


Nimble, high-tech companies account for manufacturing success in Central New York

7/27/2009


MDMA Washington Update August 2009

7/27/2009


Does research into disease, ticks and malt liquor use stimulate the economy?

7/26/2009


Just what the doctor ordered

7/24/2009


US House Panel Backs Exclusivity for Biologic Drugs

7/24/2009


Obama Backs Health Surtax

7/23/2009


GIA Market Reports Project Medical Device and Drug Industry Growth

7/22/2009


GIA Market Reports Project Medical Device and Drug Industry Growth

7/21/2009


Nancy Zimpher's Early Take on SUNY

7/21/2009


Govs Resist Added Federal Expenses From Congress

7/19/2009


Venture Capital Investment Quickens, But Still Down From '08

7/18/2009


Partnerships ‘beginning of the transformation’ at SUNYIT

7/15/2009


Federal loans for Med Tech Park authorized

7/15/2009


SUNY Breaks Ground For Biotech Center

7/15/2009


$2.4M in stimulus headed to area for biomedical research

7/13/2009


Stripped FDA Globalization Bill to Be Rewritten, Reintroduced

7/13/2009


Obama cabinet members meet Thursday for H1N1 preparedness summit

7/9/2009


Experts Keep Wary Eye on Tamiflu-Resistant Swine Flu

7/8/2009


Pick to Lead Health Agency Draws Praise and Some Concern

7/8/2009


NYU Langone Medical Center Receives $100 Million Gift to Establish Neuroscience Institute

7/8/2009


HWI Scientist, Dr. Ghosh, Unravels the Molecular Structure of the

7/8/2009


Welch Allyn offers "voluntary separation" to workers

7/7/2009

 

Throw out the lifeline: economic stimulus funding available for small biotech companies

7/7/2009


Eamonn Hobbs Appointed President & CEO of Delcath Systems, Inc.

7/6/2009


Hobbs returns to CEO seat

7/6/2009


No easy plan for reforming health care

7/4/2009


New tech firms in New York struggle

7/3/2009


Independent Survey Indicates Med Tech Companies Have Broad Support for AdvaMed Code of Ethics

7/2/2009


MDMA Washington Update July 2009

6/25/2009


MedTech Center groundbreaking slated for Friday

6/25/2009


Training a Light on Brain Disease

6/23/2009


NY to finance projects receiving fed stimulus funding

6/13/2009


NY gov offers $100M to leverage federal funds

6/9/2009


Top Democrat pushes for action on biotech drugs

6/8/2009


FDA’s New Website Is Work in Progress

6/8/2009


Key to blood clotting discovered

6/6/2009


GE opens new mammography machine factory in NY

6/5/2009


Billions budgeted for swine flu as programs launch

6/4/2009


FDA wants to keep fewer secrets

6/3/2009


Small Businesses to Get $5M-plus in NIH Stimulus Funds

6/3/2009


European Device Regs To Be Recast In 2010, With Separate IVD Revision

6/3/2009


Health industry delivers savings plan to Obama

6/1/2009


Devicemakers Critical of Guidance on 510(k) Product Sterilization

6/1/2009


FDA: Drug Import Safety Standards Should Be Shared Responsibility

6/1/2009


Isotope Shortage Could Hit Diagnostics Manufacturers

6/1/2009


Minimize Product Storage Costs, Shipping Delays

6/1/2009

 

SEVERINO CENTER FOR TECHNOLOGICAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP AWARDED KAUFFMAN GRANT: Will Build Entrepreneurship Case Study and Educational Resource Section For Entrepreneurship.org

5/27/2009


MDMA Washington Update May 2009

5/26/2009


513(g) Device Classification Requests Drop; FDA Plans Guidance

5/26/2009


Life Sciences: Partner Across the Border

5/25/2009


NIH's new rare disease push

5/21/2009


Senators Push for Delay of ‘Public Option’ in Health-Care Plan

5/19/2009


Medical community could face isotope shortage after reactor shutdown

5/19/2009


Senate Confirms Hamburg as FDA Chief

5/18/2009


Market for medical technologies aimed at seniors expands

5/16/2009


Pharma, academia ties difficult to unwind

5/15/2009


New FDA reads journal reprints differently

5/14/2009


Report : HIT and medical technology are prime investments for 2009

5/13/2009


New York - Top 5 Regions Targeting Biotech, 2009

5/13/2009


Calling All Women-Led Life Science Companies

5/11/2009


Transition to ICD-10 could fuel IT growth, survey finds

5/11/2009

 

Hamburg pledges to bring back public trust in FDA

5/7/2009

 

Obama Wants Additional $300 Million for FDA

5/7/2009

 

Obama wants $63B over 6 years to fight global health issues

5/5/2009

 

Covidien announces 30% decrease in income

4/30/2009

 

Senate Confirms Sebelius for Health Secretary Post

4/28/2009

 

Report touts a growth sector

4/28/2009

 

Upstate Medical University Continues Strategic Growth Plan for Research with UMU-Industry Collaboration Exploration

4/27/2009

 

Official: White House upbeat on bipartisan bill for health reform

4/15/2009


NIH Dives Into Comparative Effectiveness Clash With Grant Opportunities

4/7/2009


HealthcareOne Changes Name to Inforia, Inc.

4/1/2009

 

MDMA Update April 2009

4/1/2009


Legislative Update: Massachusetts Finalizes Stricter Marketing Requirements

3/16/2009


Obama announces FDA leaders, unveils food-safety group

3/16/2009


Smaller medical device manufacturers find niche in add-ons

3/13/2009


HHS Forms New Office to Manage Stimilus Funds for Healthcare

3/12/2009


In Bed with Big Pharma

3/12/2009


Merck and Schering-Plough to Merge

3/9/2009


New NIH Stimulus Grants Go Live

3/4/2009


MDMA Update March 2009

3/1/2009


Grappling With Biologic Manufacturing Concerns

3/1/2009


Study: MicroRNAs might predict drug-induced liver toxicity

2/24/2009


Report: U.S. Health Spending to Reach $2.5 Trillion this Year

2/23/2009


NIH Stimulus to Fund Old Grants

2/19/2009


U.S. Represents World's Largest Market for Hospital IT Systems

2/19/2009


OMB director to play key role in Obama's health reform goals

2/11/2009


FDA Joins International Effort to Create Standards for Tubing Connections

2/10/2009


NIH leader: Stimulus mustn't forget biomedical research

2/10/2009

 

National Instruments to Further Medical Device Development With Grants in 2009

2/9/2009


Sebelius, Bredesen lead race for HHS

2/9/2009


Investors: Biotech to Rebound, Outperform in '09

2/9/2009


Obama Promises Stem Cells Order

2/6/2009


MDMA Update February 2009

2/1/2009


Biotech Companies with Mature Pipelines Gain Favor with Investors

1/16/2009


European investors back early-stage biotech fund

1/14/2009


FDA Set to Get New Leaders

1/12/2009


A Wolfe in Regulator's Clothing: Drug Industry Critic Joins the FDA

1/9/2009

 

Research advocates call for big hike in NIH grants

1/8/2009


Obama Aims to Help Patients Wipe Away Medical Debts

1/7/2009


House Democrats to Move on Children's Health Care Bill

1/7/2009


FDA's Device Unit Reports Decline in Trial Violations

1/7/2009


Federal Judge Dismisses Medtronic Heart-Device Lawsuits

1/7/2009


Study Shows Potential of Stem Cells in Treating Birth Flaws

1/7/2009


Implantable Defibrillators Save Older Patients Too

1/6/2009


Device Uses Nanoparticles to Control Drug Delivery

1/6/2009


U.S. spent $2.2 trillion for health care in 2007

1/6/2009


Analyst: Recession's Effect on Medical Devices "Remains to be Seen"

1/6/2009


MDMA Update January 2009

1/1/2009


NYC's $60M Program Pushes Electronic Health Records

12/29/2008


Researchers Create Molecular Manual

12/29/2008


FDA teams up with WebMD for consumer-health alerts

12/3/2008


Now, Smart Biobatteries that Releases Drug at Right Rate

12/2/2008

 

Gender Differences in Cardiovascular Device Trials

11/25/2008

 

Report: Hospitals Cut Spending on Devices as U.S. Economy Falters

11/19/2008

 

Woman Gets New Windpipe Made from Own Stem Cells

11/19/2008

 

NY Gov.’s FY’10 Budget Cuts Would Cleave $5.2B from Life-Science-Related Programs

11/18/2008

 

Is FDA Persecuting India's Generics Makers

11/17/2008

 

Credit Crunch Forces Delay at NY Biotech Complex

11/17/2008

 

FDA to Keep Tabs on Stent Grafts

11/17/2008

 

Gleaning Good Practices from Warning Letters

11/17/2008

 

Congress to Look into Claims Against FDA Officials Over Device Reviews

11/17/2008

 

Big Pharma Slow To Change

11/16/2008

 

Researchers ID Genetic Signature for Chemotherapy, Radiation Resistance

11/11/2008

 

CMS Reconsiders Physician Incentive Payment Program

11/11/2008

 

Post-Election Industry Outlook: New User Fees, More Aggressive FDA

11/10/2008

 

NYSTAR Expects $1M More for FY 2010, Despite State Budget Woes; More for Tech Transfer and CAT, Less for Faculty Grants

11/10/2008

 

Medical Advances Will Alter the FDA

11/8/2008

 

Stevenson Biomaterials Lecture on Nov. 19 Will Explore How Biological Adhesives are Influencing the Development of Novel Synthetic Materials

11/7/2008

 

Mayo Cuts Clinical Trial Services Biz

11/5/2008

 

Pharma Research Companies Slipping

10/29/2008

 

Cash-Poor Biotech Firms Cut Research, Seek Aid

10/29/2008

 

The Good News for Biotech: New Regulation Opens a New Path to Profitability

10/25/2008

 

FDA May Not Meet as Many PDUFA Deadlines This Year

10/24/2008

 

Binghamton Tech-Business Incubator Nears Launch

10/23/2008

 

Analysis: FDA Advisory Committee System Stretched Extremely Thin

10/20/2008

 

Revised Process Validation Guidance Expected Shortly

10/17/2008

 

Coming to Terms with Consumer-Driven Health Plans

10/16/2008

 

Small Companies Prized for Their Innovation

10/16/2008

 

FDA Increases Public Exposure of Clinical Trials

10/10/2008

 

Devices With BPA Added to FDA’s ‘Hot Topics’ List

10/8/2008

 

Infection Control Guidelines Issued

10/8/2008

 

Some Hospitals Slow to Adopt Life-Saving IT Tools

10/6/2008

 

Inficon nabs Defense Department Order Worth More than $1.5 Million

10/6/2008

 

CMS Solicits Nominees for DMEPOS Advisory Panel

10/3/2008

 

FDA Publishes List of Approved PMAs

9/30/2008

 

Industry Expects GAO Report to Challenge 510(k) Program

9/30/2008

 

EMEA Guidelines Focus on Degenerative Brain Diseases

9/26/2008

 

Hiring Trend in Medical Device Market Provides Better Qualified Candidates

9/26/2008

 

Alert Issued on Use of Blood Thinners

9/24/2008

 

Railways to Expand Telemedicine Network

9/23/2008

 

FDA Expects to Miss Deadlines for Implementing Changes

9/19/2008

 

CDRH Gets New Postmarket Czar

9/18/2008

 

Research Group Offers Guidelines for R&D Efficiency

9/18/2008

 

New Boilerplate Pacts Proposed for Cancer Projects

9/18/2008

 

How Safe is BPA in Medical Devices?

9/17/2008

 

Small Patients, Big Consequences in Medical Errors

9/14/2008

 

What Nurses Want

9/13/2008

 

CDRH Issues Flutter Device Guidance

9/12/2008

 

China Touts Improvements in Postmarket Monitoring of Medical Devices

9/11/2008

 

Investors Finding Shelter in Medical Devices

9/11/2008

 

Retail Clinics Haven't Cut Health Costs

9/9/2008

 

FDA to Spend $2.5B on Technology Upgrade

9/1/2008