Starch Medical (San Jose, California), a device company developing and manufacturing absorbable hemostatic products, is adding China to its strategic focus, hoping to take advantage of China's ongoing and rapid shift from manufacturing to new product development.

The first thing that hits you when you walk in Elekta's Learning and Innovation Center (LINC) located in Atlanta, is that there is a lot of history here. From the Leksell Stereotactic System invented in 1949, to the Leskell Gamma Knife Perfexion - the advances in med-tech through the lens of a once small but now sizeable company are evident. But to merely think of this as a repository of the firm's greatest technological achievements and advancements in the treatment of cancer would be egregiously wrong. LINC is a learning center that links the past to future innovation. The 25,000...

Software developed by Medtronic (Minneapolis) will give the company greater insight into performance issues on defibrillator leads from competing firms when attached to one of the med-tech giant's devices. The company said that it received FDA approval of the Lead Integrity Alert (LIA) software to report performance issues on St. Jude's (St. Paul, Minnesota) Durata and Boston Scientific's (Natick, Massachusetts) Endotak defibrillator leads when connected to a Medtronic device.