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Abbott raises guidance after Q3 results beat expectations

Oct. 21, 2020
By Liz Hollis
Abbott Laboratories saw improvement with its medical devices and diagnostics in the third quarter, which featured wins in the areas of COVID-19, diabetes, and structural heart. The company revealed its quarterly results on a Oct. 21 call, during which management said it was increasing its guidance for full-year adjusted earnings per share (EPS) to at least $3.55.
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Australia and coronavirus

Australia’s device and biotech companies hold the key for future pandemic preparedness: MTPConnect report

Oct. 20, 2020
By Tamra Sami
PERTH, Australia – During the COVID-19 pandemic, 90% of Australia’s clinical trials were put on hold, and the market cap of biotech and medical device companies on the Australian Securities Exchange dropped 5% to AU$11 billion (US$7.78 billion), according to a recent report by Australia’s Medical Technologies and Pharmaceuticals Industry Growth Centre.
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Australia and coronavirus

Australia’s device and biotech companies hold the key for future pandemic preparedness: MTPConnect report

Oct. 15, 2020
By Tamra Sami
PERTH, Australia – During the COVID-19 pandemic, 90% of Australia’s clinical trials were put on hold, and the market cap of biotech and medical device companies on the Australian Securities Exchange dropped 5% to AU$11 billion (US$7.78 billion), according to a recent report by Australia’s Medical Technologies and Pharmaceuticals Industry Growth Centre.
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2020 Medical Innovation Summit

Smartphone-connected pacemaker devices, experimental gene therapy among top 10 innovations at annual event

Oct. 6, 2020
By Liz Hollis
As with many conferences, the Cleveland Clinic’s 2020 Medical Innovation Summit went virtual this year. Still, the event featured the hotly anticipated top 10 list of innovations for 2021 that saw a range of therapies. Ranked in order of expected importance, the list was led by gene therapy for hemoglobinopathies. The top three innovations, including a novel drug for primary-progressive multiple sclerosis and smartphone-connected pacemaker devices, were highlighted in a special presentation.
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Bags of plasma

EUA broadens access to plasma in U.S., raises questions about trial enrollment

Aug. 25, 2020
By Mari Serebrov
As of Aug. 13, more than 90,000 patients hospitalized in the U.S. with COVID-19 already had been given access to convalescent plasma through a national expanded use protocol (EAP) sponsored by the Mayo Clinic. The FDA’s decision Sunday to grant emergency use authorization (EUA) for the potential therapy will further expand access to convalescent plasma for hospitalized patients throughout the country at a time when fully approved COVID-19 treatments are nonexistent and even EUAs are few and far between.
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‘Made-in’ policies for medical devices spreading across Asia-Pacific region

Aug. 13, 2020
By Mark McCarty
The COVID-19 pandemic has exerted a massive effect on procedure volumes across the globe, but concerns over supply chains have prompted political officials in Washington to encourage domestic production of drugs. That approach is also in play in a number of nations in the Asia-Pacific region, said Sana Siddiqui of Decision Resources Group, who noted that Beijing wants hospitals in China to ensure that 70% of devices used there are domestically manufactured by 2025.
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No resiliency in having eggs in one manufacturing basket

Aug. 12, 2020
By Mari Serebrov
While the U.S. and other countries are looking to step up their own domestic drug and device manufacturing, a bigger takeaway from the COVID-19 pandemic is the need for resilient supply chains that can withstand a global scramble for products suddenly more in demand than the supply can support.
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No resiliency in having eggs in one manufacturing basket

Aug. 11, 2020
By Mari Serebrov
While the U.S. and other countries are looking to step up their own domestic drug and device manufacturing, a bigger takeaway from the COVID-19 pandemic is the need for resilient supply chains that can withstand a global scramble for products suddenly more in demand than the supply can support.
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House committee moves to put the stock back in U.S. stockpile

July 16, 2020
By Mari Serebrov
In its first fully virtual markup session, the House Energy and Commerce Committee Wednesday set aside politics to approve a bill that would make the U.S. Strategic National Stockpile (SNS) a better emergency resource – at least for the next few years.
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Ethicon wins temporary restraining order in alleged counterfeit sutures lawsuit

June 29, 2020
By Mark McCarty
Ethicon U.S. LLC has prevailed in a preliminary action seeking a temporary restraining order against Advanced Inventory Management (AIM) Inc., of Mokena, Ill., which is accused of having imported and sold surgical supplies falsely bearing the Ethicon trademark. Ethicon, a subsidiary of Johnson & Johnson of New Brunswick, N.J., further alleges the sutures were bacterially contaminated and defective.
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