Hologic (Bedford, Massachusetts) is wasting little time this year expanding its product offerings through acquisitions. Just barely a week into 2011 and the firm is reporting that it has acquired Interlace Medical (Framingham, Massachusetts) – a privately held company, that develops the hysteroscopic tissue removal system MyoSure. (Medical Device Daily)

According to a study published in the Jan. 5 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) some patients who don't meet the criteria for implantable cardioverter-defibrillators (ICDs) have the devices implanted anyway, and could be at serious risk. (Medical Device Daily)

A new collaboration between Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH; Boston) and Veridex (Raritan, New Jersey), a Johnson & Johnson (J&J; New Brunswick, New Jersey) company, has been initiated to develop a circulating tumor cell (CTC) technology for capturing, counting and characterizing tumor cells found in patients' blood. (Medical Device Daily)

Cook Medical (Bloomington, Indiana) could be making tremendous headway in obtaining FDA approval for its Zenith Dissection endovascular system, which is designed for the treatment of Type B aortic dissection. The med-tech company reported positive data from the STABLE clinical trial evaluating the application, which is comprised of a proximal endograft and a distal uncovered stent. (Medical Device Daily)

It doesn't make sense to tear up an entire road when there's one patch of it that's damaged, nor does it make sense to replace a whole knee when the joint can be salvaged with one implant. That's the logic behind Arthrosurface's (Franklin, Tennessee) HemiCap platform technology, which is now aimed at providing a more biological solution for joint preservation. (Medical Device Daily)

Paralyzed patients being able to move objects with the power of their mind might not be such a foreign concept for much longer. A new study from the University of Chicago found that the performance of a brain-machine interface application designed to help paralyzed subjects move objects with their thoughts is improved with the addition of a robotic arm providing sensory feedback. (Medical Device Daily)