Minute Insight: Illumina Seeks Stability, Names Thaysen As New CEO

The genome-sequencing giant has named Jacob Thaysen, who brings extensive experience from Agilent, as its new leader.

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Illumina is trying to reduce the uncertainty surrounding its leadership and direction by naming a new CEO.

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Minute Insight: Medtronic May Sell Respiratory And Monitoring Units To Private Equity

 
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Staff Cuts At CDRH Focus On Administrative Workers, Spare Reviewers

 

About 200 staff in the FDA’s Center for Devices and Radiological Health were among the 3,500 FDA employees let go in today’s staff reductions. The cuts, which one employee described as a “Manhattan Project” to the center, are already having a major effect on staff morale.

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Whitaker Wants Congress To Capitalize On ‘Golden Age Of Medical Innovation’

AdvaMed’s top priorities for the 119th Congress include modernizing US Medicare services and expanding patients’ access to the latest medical technologies.