Symmetry Medical has signed an agreement to purchase Olsen Medicals assets in an all-cash transaction, upon meeting all pre-closing conditions. The sum was not disclosed.

NextGen Healthcare Information Systems, a wholly owned subsidiary of Quality Systems and developer of healthcare information systems and connectivity tools, has agreed to market and deliver tools and services to medical practices with Dell.

Assessing the outcomes of nearly 37,000 visitors to Florida who became ill and needed emergency treatment, researcher Joseph J. Doyle, economist with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, found that high spending areas have significantly lower inpatient mortality rates compared to low-spending areas, according to a study published in the American Economic Journal.

U.K. researchers have found pulse oximetry screening to be effective in early diagnosis of congenital heart defects in newborns, according to study findings published Aug. 5 in The Lancet. However, the accompanying editorialists argued that the evidence still seems unsatisfying.

Midwest biomedical companies have raised $315.1 million in the first half of the year, according to a report from Cleveland-based healthcare advocacy group BioEnterprise, which noted particular substantial investment growth in Ohio-based medical start-ups.

Boston Scientific's restructuring plan includes standardizing and automating processes; relocation of activities; rationalization of the company reporting structure; and leveraging vendors. Under the plan, which is set to begin in the third quarter, an estimated 1,200 to 1,400 positions globally will be eliminated.

AFC Industries has introduced the LB Series medical equipment cart.

Performing coiling in patients who suffer from both ruptured and unruptured aneurysm is safe and effective and showed high rates of post-procedure survival, according to the results of the MAPS trial presented at this years Society of NeuroInterventional Surgery meeting July 27 in Colorado Springs, Colo.