Contracts

Critical care monitoring expert Sphere Medical Holding plc, and cardiovascular devices company Sorin Group, have jointly announced today that Sorin Group has placed an order with Sphere Medical for cardiopulmonary bypass monitors and microanalyser consumables (CPB) for delivery in Q4 2012.

Corin Group must be doing something right for LARS SA to extend its distribution agreement with the company in terms of both time and territories. Most notably the new deal now encompasses USA, subject to Corin handling the 510(k) submission.

Surgical Innovations Group plc, and CareFusion Inc. have agreed an eight year exclusive US distribution agreement for SI’s clever PretzelFlex® laparoscopic retractor.

Integra LifeSciences Holdings Corporation has announced that it is to plug a gap in its range by distributing a private label version of the aap Implantate AG stainless headed compression screw system.

Israeli Spine specialist Expanding Orthopedics Inc. has appointed Advanced Medical Systems (AMS Group S.P.A.) as its distributor for the XPED Expanding Pedicle Screw System™ in Italy.

UK based test equipment company Rigel Ltd has announced that Carl Zeiss Ltd, a global market leader in precision optics and engineering technology, has specified the Rigel Medical 62353 medical safety analyser to comply with IEC 62353, the standard for in-service and after repair testing of medical electronic devices.

Bacterin International Holdings, Inc. a leader in the development of revolutionary bone graft material and antimicrobial coatings for medical applications, has signed an exclusive agreement with Jeil Medical Corporation for distribution in the U.S. and Canada of Jeil’s LeForte System.

NHS has awarded a multiple-year renewal of the current contract to continue providing MediPurpose safety medical products to its U.K. healthcare customers through Smiths Medical

St Jude’s cooperation agreement with Philips offers more US hospitals access to the market’s only wireless FFR system

3M Healthcare and UK Government and associated groups have been in dispute over claims that 3M “deliberately mismanaged” trials of its BacLite product.

Aircraft Medical has announced that it has signed an exclusive agreement with Covidien to market and distribute Aircraft’s proprietary McGRATH® MAC video laryngoscope in the United States, United Kingdom, Japan, Latin America, Australia and New Zealand

Corin, a leading manufacturer and supplier of orthopaedic devices, has renewed its agreement to distribute the LARS ligament

Kensey Nash Acquires Assets of Synthes’ Norian Subsidiary
— Expected to be accretive in fiscal year 2012

— Strengthens Kensey Nash’s position as a world leader in regenerative medicine

— Provides Fiscal 2011 Fourth Quarter and Preliminary Fiscal 2012 Year Guidance

Baxter Healthcare Corporation today announced a licensing agreement with Innocoll Pharmaceuticals Ltd for exclusive rights to market and distribute the company’s gentamicin surgical implant in the United States