Author: Camden Lawless

COOK GROUP EXPANDS BY BUYING ADJACENT VACANT GE SITE

      Cook Group, through its subsidiary Cook Properties, has agreed to purchase the former GE site near Cook’s world headquarters in Bloomington, Ind. Cook Group is expanding its medical device business into the vacant GE property on Curry Pike. This…

    BECTON, DICKINSON COMPLETES ACQUISITION OF C.R. BARD

      Becton, Dickinson (BD) has completed the acquisition of C.R. Bard, creating a new healthcare company with approximately $16 billion in annualized revenue. Vincent A Forlenza, chairman and CEO, said the combined company builds on BD’s position in medication management and infection…

      PRISM TRIAL EVALUATES SAFETY, EFFICACY OF INDIGO ASPIRATION SYSTE

        Results of the multicenter PRISM trial were published by Richard R. Saxon, MD, et al in the  Journal of Vascular and Interventional Radiology (JVIR; 2018;29:92–100). PRISM evaluated the safety and initial efficacy of a power aspiration–based extraction technique for treatment of peripheral arterial…

        FIFTH WELLCARE EXEC SENTENCED TO PRISON FOR FRAUD SCHEME

          Thaddeus M.S. Bereday, the former general counsel for WellCare Health Plans ,has been sentenced to six months in federal prison for his role in a scheme to defraud Florida’s Medicaid program. The Department of Justice announced that  Bereday will serve a prison…