Market & Industry Briefs

Brief summaries of recent medtech market and industry developments. This month we cover KCI's shift to private status, J&J's exit from drug-eluting stents, safety concerns about Edwards' Sapien TAVI device, and the MoneyTree 2Q2011 report on medtech venture financings.

Historically, wound care has been a nice tuck-in business for both large medical device and pharmaceutical companies. But that dynamic appears to be changing as advanced technologies are developed that make this sector more attractive as a growth business, evidenced by the large number of recent deals and consolidation going on in this market. The latest example of this trend is the proposed deal to make publicly traded Kinetic Concepts Inc. (KCI) a privately held company.

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