Tag Archives: Edwards Lifesciences
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly: Third-party coverage requests
September 30, 2011 – 8:29 AM
As a member of the trade press, I get a kick out of how routinely some people in the mainstream media and the population at large routinely assume that device makers are driven by greed and that doctors are morally…
Medtronic’s $2.5M InFuse fix: Off-label use + implant = headaches
August 5, 2011 – 1:02 PM
The deal struck by Medtronic (Fridley, Minnesota) regarding an evaluation of adverse events associated with off-label use of the InFuse bone morphogenic protein is conspicuous, but not so much because it will cost the firm $2.5 million to have Yale…
TAVR looked upon as next med-tech blockbuster, but is it ready for primetime?
April 6, 2011 – 11:37 AM
It’s easy to understand the excitement about the PARTNER trial, sponsored by Edwards Lifesciences (Irvine, California), the company that makes the much talked about transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) device, called the Sapien. After all, given the choice between open…
