A study published in August found that women experienced more adverse events from Boston Scientific’s Watchman implant than men. The FDA said it plans to take a closer look at data for these stroke-prevention implants, but still says the benefits outweigh the risks. 

Abbott Laboratories received FDA approval for its Amulet device to treat people with atrial fibrillation who are at risk of ischemic stroke. The device would go head-to-head with one developed by Boston Scientific that was approved in 2015.

Boston Scientific will acquire remote cardiac monitoring company Preventice for $925 million in cash and up to $300 million in milestone payments. The deal is expected to close in mid-2021.

Earlier this year, the Marlborough, Massachusetts-based medical device giant invested $90 million into Millipede with the option of acquiring the rest of the company,

Along with Boston Scientific’s Watchman in the technology category, Novartis and Gilead’s Kite shared the biotechnology award for CAR-T therapy, while Celgene/Agios’s Idhifa won the pharmaceutical prize.

Boston Scientific’s neurostimulation device Vercise is built on cochlear implant technology, allowing it to modulate impulses between multiple contacts.

Medtronic becomes the first in the U.S. to win FDA approval for a quadripolar cardiac resynchronization therapy pacemaker that is also safe to use under MRI if certain conditions are met.

Boston Scientific may have purchased Swiss structural heart company Symetis for many reasons but one could very well be that the Lotus aortic valve is not ready for prime time.

Boston Scientific is testing microspheres coated with a chemotherapy drug that can be delivered at the tumor site in the liver to provide an alternative to chemotherapy drugs with its attendant side effects and costs.

Cosman Medical, which makes RF generators and electrodes among other things, will become part of Boston Scientific’s neuromodulation business.

With the full ImageReady system, patients are approved to get full-body MRI scans, which eliminates some of the potential risks of a device malfunctioning due to the scan.

The AXIOS Stent and Electrocautery Enhanced Delivery System is designed to help physicians manage serious complications from pancreatitis using a minimally invasive endoscopic approach.

Currently, implanted stents are sometimes forgotten or left in for too long – 13 out of 100 according to the company.