Best of 2016: The 10 most-read stories of the year

Each year, the editor’s of MassDevice write roughly 2,500 stories about the medical technology industry. These articles touch on the wins, the losses, the extraordinary and, sometimes, mundane machinations of this incredible industry.

Our most popular stories this year hit some of the industry’s hot-button issues, including the M&A blockbuster of the year, Abbott’s $25 billion buyout of St. Jude Medical; Johnson & Johnson’s plan to slash 3,000 jobs from its medtech division; Google- and J&J-backed Verb Surgical’s play in robot-assisted surgery; and the global mockery around the rebranding of Siemens Healthcare as Healthineers.

We’ve collected our 10 most popular stories of the year below for your enjoyment.

Enjoy,

The MassDevice staff

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10. Abbott to pay $25B for St. Jude Medical

9. Inside the largest medical device acquisition in history

8. J&J to cut up to 3000 jobs from medical device biz

7. Synthes sales consultants win $5m class action settlement

6. Boston Scientific smuggled counterfeit resin for pelvic mesh, racketeering lawsuit alleges

5. J&J’s Ethicon recalls Physiomesh flexible composite hernia mesh

4. J&J and Google’s Verb Surgical looks to define, lift robotic surgery

3. FDA sends warning letters to 12 medical device companies

2. Siemens Healthcare’s ‘Healthineers’ re-branding is widely panned

1. Fresenius, plaintiffs ask for more time for $250m settlement in dialysate cases

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