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Doc fined $12k for illegal kickbacks
A Washington judge ordered army cardiologist Dr. Jason Layne Davis to repay the sum of "every dinner, every bottle of wine and every other gratuity that [he] ever received" from cardiac implant maker
FDA guidance on smartphone apps not likely until end of 2011
Bakul Patel, the FDA's policy advisor for the Center for Devices and Radiological Health (CDRH), let slip during a "what if" modeling session with industry members at the Food and Drug Law
Device, pharma makers outfit sales forces with iPads
Apple's iPad has caught on quickly in many areas of healthcare, but perhaps no subsector has adopted the tablet-like handheld with as much vigor as pharmaceutical and medical-device makers. "[The
Judge rejects Guidant's plea agreement in unsafe defibrillator case as too lenient
The Justice Department might have to get tougher on Guidant Corp., for its handling of a potentially fatal flaw in some of its heart defibrillators. A U.S. District judge on Tuesday ruled that a
Boston Scientific, Medtronic slammed with renewed $600M award
Eight years ago, Johnson & Johnson division Cordis Corp. was awarded almost $600 million in damages in a cardiac-stent infringement case against Boston Scientific Corp. and Medtronic. The cases
U.S. Senator questions partnership between cardiologists, medical devicemaker-backed group
Expect to see a lot more stories like this in one in coming months, folks, as it's become extremely popular to challenge medical devicemaker and pharmaceutical financing of, well, anything that
Drug companies plan to disclose grant funding
Hoping to stave off outside regulation by Congress, a group of the nation's largest drug and device manufacturers have put forth plans to publicly disclose the grants they make to outside
A potentially costly discovery?
As I understand it, basic economic theory suggests that buyers can't make rational decisions unless they can get and compare prices for equivalent products and services. If it's costly or difficult
Researcher settles price disclosure case with Guidant
Not-for-profit market research firm ECRI Institute has settled a legal dispute with Boston Scientific over whether it could publish pricing information on the devicemaker's products. ECRI had been
Cardiologists stand by stents
Recently there have been reports that blood clots can form within drug-coated stents designed to keep arteries clear. But cardiologists at the Transcather Cardiovascular Therapeutics show say patients are "far more are being killed each year by the failure of doctors to promptly clear coronary arteries and install stents when patients arrive at a hospital during a heart attack." Experts say that many studies have proven the superiority of stents to clot-busting drugs, and that the risk of …
