Maxxim Medical Inc.

By David Cassak Long under-appreciated as a public issue, Encore Medical Corp. has gone private in a deal with Blackstone Capital Partners that values the Austin-based orthopedics and rehab product

Gyrus' recent acquisition of ACMI came after much wooing and is a great marriage. But the deal raises as many questions as it answers. By David Cassak For much of the past five years, officials of Gy

In an age of consolidation, mid-sized device companies are finding their way between market leaders, on the one hand, and emerging technology start-ups on the other. by David Cassak The medical device

A tech transfer model in devices Trevor O. Jones, a veteran engineer who designed General Motors Corp.'s first electronic crash sensor for air bags and started up TRW Inc.'s automotive electronics gro