NN&I - April 2010
Business www.nephronline.comApril 2010 Nephrology News & Issues 15 PROD/SERVICES 2/15/10 3/15/10 Change% ChangeAngioDynam (ANGO)$16.41 $15.47 -$0.94 -5.73%BaxterIntnl (BAX)$55.92 $58.37 $2.45 4.38%CantelMedical (CMN)$19.50 $19.83 $0.33 1.69%Covidien (COV)$49.58 $50.55 $0.97 1.96%C.R. Bard (BCR)$81.97 $83.13 $1.16 1.42%DaVita (DVA)$58.98 $62.58 $3.60 6.10%DialysisCorp (DCAI)$6.56 $6.74 $0.18 2.74%Fresenius (FMS)$50.41 $54.92 $4.51 8.95%MannKind (MNKD)$9.82 $7.89 -$1.93 -19.65%Medtronic (MDT)$42.44 $45.81 $3.37 7.94%MesaLabs (MLAB)$26.80 $25.12 -$1.68 -6.27%Nephros (NEPH)$0.85 $0.99 $0.14 16.47%NxStageMed (NXTM)$8.73 $11.00 $2.27 26.00%RockwellMed (RMTI)$7.70 $6.04 -$1.66 -21.56%Spire (SPIR)$4.80 $4.80 -0.00%PHARMAAbbottLabs (ABT)$53.93 $54.80 $0.87 1.61%Affymax (AFFY)$19.86 $20.98 $1.12 5.64%AMAGPharma (AMAG)$38.41 $35.36 -$3.05 -7.94%Amgen (AMGN)$56.48 $56.89 $0.41 0.73%AmylinPharma (AMLN)$18.01 $23.50 $5.49 30.48%Exelixis$6.55 $6.27 -$0.28 -4.27%GenzymeCorp (GENZ)$55.73 $57.22 $1.49 2.67%Hospira (HSP)$49.95 $54.82 $4.87 9.75%ImpaxLabs (IPXL)$13.91 $17.23 $3.32 23.87%Roche (RHHBY)$41.50 $41.25 -$0.25 -0.60%Sanofi-Aventis (SNY)$36.21 $38.56 $2.35 6.49%Shire (SHPGY)$59.66 $67.04 $7.38 12.37%TevaPharma (TEVA)$58.86 $60.98 $2.12 3.60%WatsonPharma (WPI)$38.08 $40.28 $2.20 5.78% BriefsDaVita names new CFO, VP of Communications \037DaVita Inc. on March 5 named Luis Borgen chief financial officer, which took effect March 29. On March 15, they appointed Bill Myers as vice president of communications.Borgen, 39, joins DaVita after spending more than 12 years at Staples. Myers was previously vice president of state government affairs at UnitedHealth Group. Satellite Dialysis opens new center in Merced, Calif. \037Satellite Healthcare said March 5 that it opened a new Sat-ellite Dialysis center in Merced, Calif. The center is equipped with 25 dialysis stations and a peritoneal dialysis area. DaVita, athenahealth launch EHR platform \037 DaVita Inc. and athenahealth Inc. announced March 3 they had formed a partnership to deliver an integrated, Web-based electronic health record and revenue cycle management ser -vice to nephrologists across the country. The new service will combine DaVita's Falcon EHR and the athenaCollector. Taking StockNxStage System One goes DutchNxStage Medical Inc. continued its wave across Europe with a March 3 announcement that it signed a five-year distribution agreement with Dirinco. The independent Dutch com -pany will conduct promotion, sales, delivery, and service of certain NxStage and Medisystems products within the Netherlands.Under the terms of the agreement, the NxStage System One and Pure Flow SL dialysate preparation system will be available to dialysis centers throughout the Netherlands exclusive-ly through Dirinco. Dirinco will also make available the System One for use in critical care applications, and has the option to make NxStage Medisys-tems ButtonHole needles available to its customers in this region. Dirinco Managing Director Roel Kuiper said this was an opportuni -ty to advance home hemodialysis in the Netherlands and said the agree-ment with NxStage will help more regional patients gain access to new technologies. FDA: Class I recall for Baxter devicesBaxter International said March 2 federal regulators have given the company's recall of dialysis machines the most urgent safety warning available. The Deerfield, Ill.-based company issued a recall on certain HomeChoice peritoneal dialysis cyclers in January after reports of problems regulating the dialysate flow. The company said the U.S. Food and Drug Admin-istration has categorized the action as a Class I recall, its most severe level that applies to problems that can cause "serious adverse health consequences or death." Baxter said it is still investigating the source of the problems and is working on changes to labeling and software to prevent patient errors. The company stressed that the machines do not need to be returned to the com-pany and can still be used. Business0410_4.indd 15 3/18/10 3:26:40 PM
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