Sometimes it's fun to revisit events in the past and see how things have changed in the meantime. Here are three stories that made the pages of Medical Device Daily five years ago. 2009’s drug balloons Germany’s Nena sang of 99 red balloons in 1983, but TCT 2009 included a session on drug-eluting (or drug-coated) balloons. In the September 28, 2009, edition of MDD, I covered a discussion at TCT of whether the then-novel guidance for drug-eluting stents was of any value for developing drug-coated...

Looking to penetrate deeper into European markets and cement relationships with the doctors and healthcare practitioners that use their devices the most, international device maker Boston Scientific (Natick, Massachusetts) opened a new training facility in Paris last week.