Invest in Your Brand

At a recent event held by The Medical Development Group (MDG), a panel of speakers spoke to device startups about the state of M&A activity in 2009. Daniel Lepanto, Managing Director of Mergers and Acquisitions for Leerink Swann spoke about the availability of...

The World Changed. Now What?

In the April issue of our newsletter, Designochology, I discussed the impact that the “gift ban” regulations will have on the marketing of medical devices. Volumes have been written about the new state and federal regulations, and how they’re...

A Welcome Addition to the Medical Device Market

A new web-only publication MassDevice.com was recently launched to serve the Massachusetts medical device market. You might ask, do we really need another publication to serve the life sciences industry? But the problem with nearly all of the currently available...

Putting Things in Perspective

Recently, I visited a family member in the hospital who had had complications with childbirth. As I waited for my opportunity to visit, a stream of doctors and nurses came and left. I paced back and forth from the hospital room to the nursery where the newborn was...