Since healthcare reform has been a big part of both presidential candidates' platforms, perhaps part of the incoming president's plans should be to get behind policies that would promote remote patient monitoring. (Medical Device Daily)

Back in 1806, when Phillip Bozzini designed a light-conducting device that would examine the canals and cavities and become a precursor to the modern endoscope, he probably had no idea that the tool would become a useful aid in a plethora of medical procedures, let alone an expensive piece of equipment pedaled at an extremely high rate. (Medical Device Daily)

Thoratec (Pleasanton, Caifornia) shares took as much as a 20% trouncing at one point yesterday after the company reported Friday that it had issued a notice to hospitals following 27 reports concerning wear and tear to its HeartMate II Left Ventricular Assist System (LVAD) for end-stage heart failure. (Medical Device Daily)