Medtronic Lawsuit

Medtronic recently received FDA approval of new software which will help the company detect fractures in its troubled SprintFidelis leads.
The new software update will alert both the patient and the physician of any lead defects. This is intended to cut back on the number of complications as well as elminate the fears some patients have […]

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Patients who are using Medtronic’s reveal recorders now will have access to CareLink. Previously, the service had been available only to people using ICDs and pacemakers.
CareLink is Medtronic’s global, secure network that monitors the ICDs and pacemakers people have in place. The network allows doctors to check on the pacemakers and other heart rhythm monitors […]

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Senator Charles Grassley (R-Iowa) has been pursuing an admirable political goal recently: encouraging transparency of interactions between businesses and the medical field. One of his political targets has been medical supply companies that donate to medical education, which can have an affect on the way information is presented to students and doctors. On Tuesday the […]

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Medtronic’s most recent litigation involvement has taken a
negative turn.  After winning a $250
million ruling over a patent infringement case, the judge reduced the award to
$19 million.  The judge was very angry
with the Medtronic team when he found out that the person responsible for the
patenting withheld pertinent information about previous inventions that had
been developed by Medtronic.  […]

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