A gastrointestinal stent from Cook Medical now has 510 (k) clearance from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for use in patients suffering GI obstructions caused by cancer.Bloomington, Indiana-based Cook said that its Evolution Duodenal Controlled-Release Stent will be available for patients experiencing gastric outlet obstruction (GOO), a late-stage complication of GI-related cancers. Pancreatic cancer [...]

When the topic of the 2.3 percent medical device excise tax arises, Cook Medical‘s Scott Sewell is quick to frame the discussion around jobs.Of Bloomington, Indiana-based Cook’s roughly 10,000 employees, 6,000 work in the United States; 525 in the company’s endoscopy unit in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Sewell said that although the company has two new [...]

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Cook Medical Group and Boston Scientific Corp. (NYSE:BSX) both got their start with catheter-based devices, but the medical device giants’ similarities don’t stop there. As Boston Scientific founder John Abele told MassDevice last month, his firm got its start in an unlikely place: the basement of a Catholic Church in Belmont, [...]

Boston Scientific Corp. co-founder John Abele, in the second installment of a lengthy interview, on the early days with Peter Nicholas, his take on demands for increased transparency and his frustration with some of the company’s recent low points.Boston Scientific Corp. (NYSE:BSX) co-founder John Abele told us about the origins of the medical device [...]