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A few Boston Scientific-related news bites:<\/p>\nA few Boston Scientific-related news bites:<\/p>\n
The company said<\/a> it will cut<\/strong> 1,000 to 1,300 jobs over the next few years, as part of a restructuring program. That’s out of a work force of about 25,000. The company also reported earnings and gave new guidance; those figures are unpacked in this Dow Jones Newswires story<\/a>.<\/p>\n Two brands of Boston Scientific defibrillators<\/strong> have a design flaw that can deliver potentially life-threatening shocks to the heart in rare cases, according to an article published in the journal HeartRhythm<\/a> (subscription required). In a statement<\/a> yesterday, the company took issue with the paper, and argued that “the overall rate of events for this device family compares very favorably to the performance of similar devices and is well within accepted performance ranges.” This WSJ article<\/a> has all the details.<\/p>\n Also worth a read<\/strong>: A few years back, the big Courage study<\/a> showed that stents were no better than drugs alone for certain patients with chest pain. Why didn’t that finding do much to change medical practice? This WSJ story<\/a> explains.<\/p>\n Photo by CarbonNYC via Flickr<\/em><\/p>\n A few Boston Scientific-related news bites: The company said it will cut 1,000 to 1,300 jobs over the next few years, as part of a restructuring program. That’s out of a work force of about 25,000. The company also reported earnings and gave new guidance; those figures are unpacked in this Dow Jones Newswires story. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":650,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-306810","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306810","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/650"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=306810"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306810\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=306810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=306810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=306810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/img><\/a>
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