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• Medtronic profits miss, and stock drops 13%
  The Fridley-based firm's spine business as well as sales of heart defibrillators disappointed; production issues also contributed.
  Nov 19, 2008
• Feds probe use of Medtronic product
  The U.S. Justice Department is investigating how Infuse is being used "off-label" in ways not vetted for safety and effectiveness by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the company revealed on Tuesday. Medtronic said it is complying with a subpoena but declined to comment further.
  Nov 19, 2008
• Concerns over Acorn heart device
  A consumer advocacy group says a study testing the safety of a mesh device made by start-up Acorn Cardiovascular is flawed.
  Nov 14, 2008
• Manny Villafana: The 'Cardiac Kahuna'
  Serial entrepreneur Manny Villafana, who founded St. Jude Medical, has big plans for his new surgical device company.
  Nov 4, 2008
• Boston Sci expects end to sanctions
  Boston Scientific's CEO offers the strongest statement yet that the FDA soon will withdraw its warning letter.
  Oct 23, 2008
• U plan: Ban all gifts to doctors
  The University of Minnesota Medical School is considering a new conflict-of-interest policy so strict that doctors wouldn't even be able to accept Post-it Notes bearing a drug company's logo.
  Oct 21, 2008
• Strong sales boost St. Jude profit 20%
  The Little Canada-based company reported double-digit gains in all of its businesses during the third quarter.
  Oct 16, 2008
• Bakken gives health care in Hawaii a strong pulse
  In retirement on the Big Island of Hawaii, a Minnesota medical engineering legend is experimenting with health care.
  Oct 13, 2008
• Boston Sci approved to sell its new heart stent
  The FDA move clears the way for the U.S. launch of the medical device maker's Taxus Liberté.
  Oct 11, 2008
• Pacemakers: Still ticking at age 50
  Fifty years ago, doctors in Sweden resorted to a desperate measure to save a severely ill patient: They implanted a pacemaker to pulse his heart.
  Sep 29, 2008

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