The Federal Trade Commission blocked or restricted several deals last year, broadening what it considers to be anticompetitive transactions. Stakeholders are looking to see if the agency will bring similar cases this year and what remedies it will seek to allow deals to go forward.

Cooper announced a plan to buy Cook’s reproductive health business in February. The deal would have been worth $675m up front and $200m in four annual installments. The US FTC determined the deal would have impaired competition in the reproductive health market.

The Indiana company is the latest medtech firm to announce that it is making broad headcount reductions to cut costs.

Indiana Republican Congresswoman Jackie Walorski, who died in a car crash Wednesday, was a strong proponent of device industry priorities such as device tax repeal and Medicare coverage for innovative technologies.