DePuy Synthes reportedly provided a Massachusetts surgeon with more than $100,000 in free implants and tools.

Medtech Insight’s just-published ranking of the leading global medtechs based on revenues reported for fiscal 2021 reveals a picture of an industry overwhelmingly in growth, despite – or in some cases because of – the persistent effects of the pandemic.

Biomedicine is a priority sector for Taiwan. The government has goals to establish Taiwan as the capital of biomedical research and development in the Asia-Pacific region. The country is striving to develop 20 new medicines, bring 80 high-value medical devices to market, and build biomedicine into a trillion-NT-dollar industry by 2025. Tax incentives and other credits will help expand the scale of the biotech and pharmaceutical industry.

Zimmer Biomet said on 20 September that the FDA cleared its Identity shoulder system and expects it to be available to US surgeons in the fourth quarter.