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...But given further time, the spin-off should prove the right form of surgery....
...This week, NMC sold its stake in a Saudi joint venture to refocus on its core markets, said Davis. “Saudi Arabia is not an easy place to work,” he said....
...In keyhole surgery lasting just under an hour, a small device was placed in the torso via the navel....
...Growth in its wound care business lags behind the prized knee implant and sports medicine joint repair franchises, and faces stiffer competition. Acquisitions must be eased in carefully....
...The company has also just finished operating on 55 low-profitability surgeries marked for attention. These were being run as joint ventures with veterinarians....
...The NHS has been holding off commissioning private hospitals to replace hips and knee joints and other types of non-urgent surgery....
...Takeover speculation about Smith & Nephew is as hardy as one of its artificial joints. For years, the medical devices maker has topped brokers’ lists of potential bid candidates....
...And, so, you’re seeing a lot more patients have their surgery and then they’re straight out, basically, into the community”....
...Gerald Miles, a farmer who once drove his tractor to 10 Downing Street to protest against genetically modified foods, came to support NOPi despite having just had triple-bypass heart surgery....
...The company is also expanding in the newer field of sports medicine — involving minimally invasive surgery and joint repair — and wound care....
...Dr Neil Modha, chief clinical officer of Cambridgeshire & Peterborough Clinical Commissioning Group and Keith Spencer, chief executive of Uniting Care, said in a joint statement: “We are clear that the innovative...
...The $1.7bn acquisition of Texas-based ArthroCare last year made S&N the number two supplier of devices for minimally invasive surgery and joint repair — a business known as sports medicine....
...Mr Lewis needs to conduct radical surgery on Tesco while dealing with the fallout from an accounting scandal....
...It also makes products for wound management, repair of broken bones and surgery....
...Executives who attended IMD’s programme went through an intensive self-assessment process, which one participant compares with “brain surgery”....
...He said ArthroCare’s radio-frequency technology for use in non-invasive surgery would also be combined with Smith & Nephew’s mechanical blade portfolio to give surgeons more choice....
...In China, it would also have been difficult to increase sales without a joint venture....
...His successor, Andy Parker, joint chief operator since 2011 and deputy chief executive since May, had long been expected by investors to take the top job....
...Companion Care and Vets4Pets provide services to a network of joint venture vet surgeries. Companion Care receives a share of the vets’ turnover, in return for services....
...Surgery is meant to cure, not kill, the patient – and while some pain is inevitable, we firmly believe the PBoC is in control....
...Mr Mackay, who underwent surgery on Monday, told employees: “I am inexpressibly proud of this company, what it has achieved and the shape it is in....
...The opportunity is a joint US-European mission with two spacecraft to a binary asteroid called Didymos....
...The Westinghouse AP1000 pressurised water reactor design was originally submitted for approval by UK agencies by NuGen, a consortium of a joint venture between Iberdrola of Spain and GDF Suez of France....
...Second quarter revenues at S&N’s sports medicine joint repair unit grew 10 per cent year on year, driven by the uptake of the group’s Fast-Fix 360 device used to repair meniscal tears....
...“A surgeon tells our engineers: ‘I would like to get a tool that allows me access to this particular joint. Can you build it?’ So we do. “That’s why it’s different to the pharma model....
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