Market & Industry Briefs

Brief summaries of recent medtech market and industry developments. This month we cover trial results for PFO closure devices, the launch of Edwards Lifesciences' transcatheter valve, Accumetrics' push for platelet testing, J&J's acquisition of Micrus, the slowdown in the hip and knee market, and the new federal rule on covering preventive screening

Randomized clinical trials investigating percutaneous patent foramen ovale (PFO) closure in the US have continued to progress in 2010. These trials are striving to gather data that would support Premarket Application approval by the US Food & Drug Administration (FDA), which would allow for the first FDA-approved indication specifically for the closure of PFO. ( See Exhibit 1.)

In April, NMT Medical Inc. achieved an important milestone with the lock down and initiation of data analysis for CLOSURE I, a randomized trial comparing PFO closure using the...

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