Medical Equipment

IIT Kharagpur team develops affordable diagnostic technologies for remote, resource constrained areas

10 Jan 2023

Sree Chitra Institute develops multiplex RT-PCR kit that can detect new strains of Wuhan virus

18 May 2021

Philips acquires US-based online cardiac care provider BioTelemetry for $2,8 bn

30 Dec 2020

Huge response to PLI Scheme for bulk drugs, medical devices

30 Nov 2020

Tata CRISPR Covid-19 test gets approval from drug controller

21 Sep 2020

Bengaluru to host pharma and medical devices conference on 18-19 Feb

07 Jan 2019

After price cap, Abbot seeks to withdraw stents from India

22 Apr 2017

Tata Trusts, GE Healthcare team up to train 10,000 youth

18 Oct 2016

Govt to soon launch bulk drug/medical equipment parks

09 Dec 2015

Canada’s Valeant Pharmaceuticals to acquire surgical device maker Synergitics

03 Sep 2015

Turning breath into words – new device unveiled to give paralysis victims a voice

29 Aug 2015

New device transforms breath into words to allow the paralysed to ‘speak’

29 Aug 2015

A new device which transforms paralysis victims’ breath into words – believed to be the first invention of its kind – has been developed by academics from Loughborough University

US FDA approves Boston Scientific’s Watchman Left Atrial Appendage Closure Device

14 Mar 2015

J&J accepts $4 bn bid from Carlyle for its ortho-clinical diagnostics business

01 Apr 2014

Johnson & Johnson's  ortho-clinical diagnostics unit was created in 1994 when it acquired the clinical diagnostics division of Eastman Kodak and formed Johnson & Johnson Clinical Diagnostics, which was then merged in 1997 with Ortho Diagnostic Systems

J&J to sell Ortho Clinical Diagnostics unit to Carlyle for $4.15 bn

17 Jan 2014

US healthcare major Johnson & Johnson (J&J) yesterday agreed to sell its Ortho Clinical Diagnostics (OCD) unit to private equity firm Carlyle Group for $4.15 billion.

Danaher, Blackstone Group jointly bid for Johnson & Johnson's diagnostics unit

08 Nov 2013

PE firms in race for J&J’s Ortho Clinical Diagnostics unit

01 Oct 2013

Private equity firms have tabled preliminary bids for Johnson & Johnson's Ortho Clinical Diagnostics unit, which could fetch the US healthcare major around $5 billion

J&J launches sale of Ortho Clinical Diagnostics unit

07 Sep 2013

British engineering company Smiths Group abandons sale of medical division

03 Aug 2013

Boston Scientific to acquire C R Bard’s electrophysiology unit for $275 mn

29 Jun 2013

Larsen & Toubro to sell medical equipment business to Skanray Healthcare

16 Nov 2012

Boston Scientific to buy Vessix Vascular in a $425 million deal

09 Nov 2012

Boston Scientific to acquire heart device maker BridgePoint Medical

20 Sep 2012

Lawsuits spur J&J to stop sales of vaginal mesh implants

06 Jun 2012

Johnson & Johnson’s $21 billion bid for Synthes gets EU nod

19 Apr 2012