BioDelivery Sciences (NSDQ:BDSI) said last week that its president & CEO, Mark Sirgo, plans to retire at the end of this year. Sirgo has held the corner office at the Raleigh, N.C.-based company since 2005. He will stay on as vice chairman of the board and will help determine his successor, BioDelivery Sciences reported. “After thirteen […]
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Medtronic supply woes buoy insulin device makers
Share prices for makers of insulin management devices got a bump today after Medtronic (NYSE:MDT) reported today that supply problems pushed sales down -1% for its diabetes division. The Fridley, Minn.-based company, which released its fiscal 2018 first-quarter results this morning, posted diabetes revenues of $449 million for the three months ended July 28. The decline was […]
Insulet Q2 sales tops estimates
Shares in Insulet (NSDQ:PODD) rose today after the company met earnings expectations on Wall Street and beat sales estimates with its second quarter results. The Billerica, Mass.-based company posted a net loss of -$7.8 million, or -13¢ per share, on sales of $109.8 million for the 3 months ended June 30, for bottom-line loss of -85% […]
Insulet, Ypsomed go their separate ways
Ypsomed has been the exclusive distributor of Insulet‘s (NSDQ:PODD) Omnipod insulin management system in Europe since 2010. But today, the companies announced that the arrangement is slated to end on June 30, 2018, after the pair could not agree on extending the contract based on the price set by Insulet, according to Ypsomed. Insulet said […]
Insulet asks court to force docs from Unilife in Chap 11 sale
A Delaware judge this week ordered formal submissions from both Unilife (NSDQ:UNIS) and Insulet (NSDQ:PODD) as the companies fought over Unilife’s Chapter 11 sale, with Insulet claiming Unilife is selectively refusing to supply appropriate information and restricting it’s ability to participate. Insulet claims that Unilife has not provided it with enough data to make an informed bid […]
ADA 2017 Roundup: Photo ban causes stir among conference attendees
Many scientific conferences have embraced the technological age, creating hashtags for attendees to share content on Twitter and engage with one another. Some conferences even acknowledge attendees with powerful social media presences by giving them special ribbons and including their Twitter handles on their name badges. But at this year’s meeting of the American Diabetes […]
Ascensia Diabetes Care inks integration deal with Insulet
Ascensia Diabetes Care said today it inked a strategic alliance with Insulet (NSDQ:PODD) to integrate connectivity between Insulet’s next-gen Omnipod system with Ascensia’s Contour Next One blood glucose monitoring system. Through the deal, Parsippany, N.J.-based Ascensia’s Contour Next will be designed to pair via Bluetooth with the Omnipod Dash personal diabetes manager to automatically communicate blood glucose […]
Insulet brings on new chief commercial exec | Personnel Moves – June 5, 2017
Insulet (NSDQ:PODD) last month named Bret Christensen as its chief commercial officer to lead the company’s sales, marketing, customer care, market access and advocacy. He most recently served as GM of Myriad Genetics’ preventive care business division. He has also worked as VP of sales and marketing of the gynecologic surgical products unit at Hologic. “I […]
Artificial pancreas: These companies are racing to make one
Medical device companies are close to achieving the holy grail of diabetes treatment: a combined glucose sensor, control algorithm and insulin infusion device that effectively acts as an “artificial pancreas.” We explain more in the newest video from editors at Drug Delivery Business’s sister publication Medical Design & Outsourcing. (And for a deeper dive, check out […]
The top medtech stories of early 2017
The new Trump administration and Republican Congress – and all the accompanying change and uncertainty – is the major story for the medical device industry. But there are many other medtech stories worth noting from the first quarter of 2017. There was an FDA warning over Abbott’s Absorb bioresorbable stent, a continued spate of M&A deals, diabetes […]
