Potential impacts of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), specifically regarding healthcare delivery and costs, were the topics of discussion for RBC Capital Markets, as the firm held a conference call late last week.
Intuitive Surgical (Sunnyvale, California) saw a drop in its shares Tuesday, after the company issued a gloomy second-quarter sales warning due to lighter sales of the da Vinci medical system. The shares dropped 15% to an 18 month low for the company.
Penumbra (Alameda, California) reported the launch and wide availability of the 5MAX ACE, a next generation clot extraction device that uses aspiration alone to engage and remove blood clots causing an acute ischemic stroke.
CardioFocus (Marlborough, Massachusetts), a developer of the HeartLight Endoscopic Ablation System for the treatment of atrial fibrillation (AF), said that its HeartLight technology is the focus of a multicenter European clinical study for the treatment of drug-refractory persistent AF.
