Device News Digest - Mar 29

	FDA makes Vascular Solutions' catheter valve recall Class I The recall of hemostasis valves made by Vascular Solutions is deemed Class I, the most serious category, by the FDA. The FDA slapped its most seri ... March 28, 2013 -- MassDevice
	Biotronik lands CE Mark for MRI-safe Iforia defibrillator German medical device company Biotronik says European regulators granted CE Mark approval for its Iforia MRI-safe defibrillator. Biotronik said it ... March 28, 2013 -- MassDevice
	A Chinese Hearing Implant Takes Aim at Cochlear After suddenly going deaf at age 30, Ke Liu, a civil servant in China's eastern Jiangxi province, didn't have many options. A cochlear implant mig ... March 28, 2013 -- BusinessWeek
	Sensing the winds shifting, Medtronic applauds efforts to repeal the device tax Even as companies like Boston Scientific and Stryker and smaller ones like Cook Medical have complained loudly about the medical device tax, Medtr ... March 28, 2013 -- Medical Device & Diagnostic Industry
	Covidien Nets $177M From J&J Unit In Scalpel Patent Suit A Connecticut federal judge on Thursday awarded medical supplier Covidien PLC $176.5 million in damages after finding that Johnson & Johnson unit ... March 29, 2013 -- Law360

GRC News Update - Mar 29

	DOJ Declines to Prosecute DynCorp Over FCPA Allegations Among the reasons DynCorp gave for the declination to prosecute in the filing were the voluntary disclosure it made, an internal probe and steps t ... March 29, 2013 -- Corruption Currents
	Morgan Stanley CEO's Compensation in 2012 Fell 18% Under SEC Pay Rules Morgan Stanley (MS) Chairman and Chief Executive James Gorman took home $10.7 million in annual compensation in 2012, down 18% from the prior year ... March 28, 2013 -- FOXBusiness.com
	SAC Judge Questions Record $602 Million SEC Settlement SAC Capital Advisors LP will have to wait to learn if its $602 million insider trading settlement with the Securities and Exchange Commission can ... March 28, 2013 -- BusinessWeek
	TeliaSonera Could Face Fines in Uzbekistan Bribery Case Sweden-based telecommunications company TeliaSonera AB received notice from Swedish prosecutors it could face fines and possible forfeiture relate ... March 28, 2013 -- Corruption Currents
	Minnesota Tech Firm Opens FCPA Probe Technology company Image Sensing Systems Inc. said Wednesday it is investigating itself for possible violations of anti-corruption laws in the U.S ... March 29, 2013 -- Corruption Currents

Device News Digest - Mar 28

New Guidelines for Weight-Loss Surgery Upgrade Sleeve Procedure Note that these new bariatric surgery guidelines should lead to increased use of gastric sleeves. In addition, the guidelines suggest that bariatr ... March 27, 2013 -- MedPage Today

Medical device tax: New confidence in repeal following symbolic Senate vote Opponents of the medical device tax aim to leverage a largely symbolic Senate vote to generate momentum toward repeal. When the Senate voted this ... March 27, 2013 -- MassDevice

Doctor-Owned Device Suppliers Deemed Inherently Suspect Doctor-owned businesses that act as middlemen between medical device makers and hospitals are "inherently suspect" and some of their practices may ... March 26, 2013 -- BusinessWeek

Selecting medical device interconnects

Technology advances in electronic consumer devices and the telecommunications industry are converging at a rapid rate with medical device technology. For example, the medical industry now embraces membrane switches from the appliance industry and relies on mobile phone interconnects within portable medical monitoring devices. In addition, super-precise surgical tools have been further improved by combining advanced fiber optic and interconnect design technologies

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GRC News Digest - Mar 28

	JPMorgan Tells SEC New VaR Model Didn’t Require Prior Disclosure JPMorgan Chase & Co. (JPM), facing criticism that it misled investors about a change to a risk model as trades backfired last year, told U.S. regu ... March 28, 2013 -- Bloomberg
	Chevron says executive pay to reflect 2012 "incidents" Chevron Corp said on Wednesday its executive pay would reflect certain incidents in 2012 as well as a financial performance that outpaced the U.S. ... March 27, 2013 -- Reuters
	DOJ Watchdog Says FBI Could Improve Terrorism Finance Case Management The Federal Bureau of Investigation didn't always detail the efforts it made to pursue financial angles of terrorism cases, according to a report ... March 27, 2013 -- Corruption Currents
	Thiam’s $35.5 Billion Secret Deal Ignites U.K. Regulator’s Wrath On Feb. 12, 2010, Prudential Plc (PRU) Chief Executive Officer Tidjane Thiam offered $35.5 billion for AIA Group Ltd. (1299) in what would have be ... March 28, 2013 -- Bloomberg
	Sanctions make it harder for Koreans to help their own When the now elderly man left Japan on a Soviet ship in 1960 for North Korea, he thought he was headed to the promised land. In reality, he surviv ... March 28, 2013 -- Reuters
•	Australia ends interbank rate-setting panel after Libor scandal
•	U.K. Should Abandon Executive Pay Benchmarks, Pension Group Says