Dublin, Ireland-based Covidien has received 510(k) pre-marketing clearance from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for its Kangaroo feeding tube with IRIS technology.
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Kalamazoo, Mich.-based Stryker has completed its acquisition of Schaffhausen, Germany-based Berchtold Holding AG.
A Global Business Intelligence Research report estimates the global insulin delivery devices market to be valued at $13.8 billion by 2019, growing at a compound annual growth rate of 7 percent.
Redmond, Ore.-based Medline ReNewal, a wholly owned subsidiary of Mundelein, Ill.-based Medline, has become a member of the Association of Medical Device Reprocessors, according to an AMDR news release.
Dublin, Ireland-based Covidien has issued a voluntary recall of certain lots of its Pipeline Embolization Device and Alligator Retrieval Device due to the potential for the polytetrafluoroethylene coating on the delivery wire to delaminate and detach from the devices.
Dublin, Ireland-based Covidien has acquired Pompano Beach, Fla.-based New Wave Surgical, according to a New Wave Surgical news release.
Canton, Mich.-based Enovate Medical plans to relocate its headquarters to its existing facilities in Murfreesboro, Tenn., according to a Nashville Business Journal report.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved Minneapolis-based Medtronic's application to expand the indications for certain pacemakers and defibrillators for patients with heart failure.
Preliminary first quarter 2014 revenue for Sunnyvale, Calif.-based Surgical Intuitive's da Vinci Surgical Systems is expected to be 59 percent lower than first quarter 2013 revenue, falling from $256 million to $106 million, according to a company news release.
The following are medical device company acquisitions that have occurred in the past four weeks, beginning with the most recent.