Category — Asides

Vestar Capital announced today it was acquiring MediMedia Information Technologies Vestar is the group that took Sunrise Medical private in 2000 in a $365 transaction and is now adding to their healthcare portfolio

Carina Fully Implantable Hearing Device from Otologics. Unique hearing device implanted under the skin and thus not visable externally. Product in advanced stage of development with patients currently being recruited for clinical study.

Michael Moore takes on U.S. health care Something on the lighter side - or maybe not if you are in the healthcare industry…

Merkel postpones health reform by three months - sources - Forbes.com Postpones the central creation of “the Health Fund” structure but does not postpone increased employee contributions. “Lowering patient costs” equals lowering medical product acquisition cost? Also see this an insiders perspective.

Seth Goldin: The end of the job interview. Interesting approach - may not always be practical but may well bring better results from those canned interviews that both the interviewer and interviewed hate. This one you either have it or not. Rehearsals don’t help!

ESC Event News - Do drug eluting stents increase deaths? This study from the World Congress Of Cardiology says that first generation DES do.

Update - Boston Scientific confirms increased risk of blood clots.

Experts Spot New Form of Sleep Apnea

(HealthDay News) — Mayo Clinic researchers say they’ve identified a new type of sleep apnea called “complex sleep apnea” that may be resistant to standard treatment such as continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP).