BERLIN, Germany – More than $625 million in sales was in play at the German Congress for Orthopedics and Trauma Surgery here, the largest share of which will go to American companies. (Medical Device Daily)

VIENNA, Austria — The evolution of surgical medical technology is headed down the path of de-evolution in the search for intelligent design. (Medical Device Daily)

VIENNA, Austria — In the second year of full-blown competition for a capsule camera market it created in 2001 and enjoyed exclusively until 2006, Given Imaging (Yokneam, Israel) continues to roll out clinical trials hitting where its newly arrived competitors can not reach.(Medical Device Daily)

VIENNA – A California company secured its expansion into Europe with the release of a multi-center European study highlighted in the opening plenary session as United European Gastroenterology Week 2009 (UEGW) got under way here. (Medical Device Daily)

MUNICH, Germany — Restenosis, the reclosing of arteries opened after surgery interventions, continues to plague the plaque-busting vascular intervention techniques, defying even state-of-the-art drug-eluting stents (DES). (Medical Device Daily)