At the closing bell, CHTR is down about 1.9%, while BSX is up about 2.5% on the day Thursday.
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But then it will face competition from Boston Scientific (nyse: BSX - news - people ).
Other competitors in the healthcare sector include: Medtronic (MDT), Boston Scientific (BSX), and Edwards Lifesciences (EW).
But Boston Scientific's (nyse: BSX - news - people ) victory comes with a big price tag.
Other competitors in the healthcare sector include: Medtronic (MDT), St Jude Medical (STJ), and Boston Scientific (BSX).
Right now, Boston Scientific (nyse: BSX - news - people ) says it is focusing on small acquisitions.
Boston Scientific Corp. ( NYSE: BSX), according to The Online Investor.
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He leaves just as the company is beginning to execute his turnaround plan to return BSX to top-line growth and industry average operating margins.
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Jude and arch-rivals Medtronic ( MDT) and Boston Scientific ( BSX) have also been hurt by investor fears that health care-reform legislation would permanently squeeze profits.
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"It's disappointing from a branding and local identity point of view" to see the BSX close, said Kevin Martin, general manager of Bendigo-based broker Strategem Investment Services.
Also late yesterday, Boston Scientific (BSX) said the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved its latest drug-eluting stent, the Promus Element Plus Everolimus-Eluting Platinum Chromium Coronary Stent System.
Coronary device maker Boston Scientific (nyse: BSX - news - people) is suing its partner, stent supplier and acquisition target Medinol for fraud and breach of contract.
According to the ETF Finder at ETF Channel, CHTR and BSX collectively make up 1.29% of the Buyback Achievers Portfolio ETF (PKW) which is up by about 0.8% on the day Thursday.
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But that's where competitors also making the drug-coated stents, like Guidant (nyse: GDT - news - people )and Boston Scientific (nyse: BSX - news - people ), enter.
Boston Scientific (nyse: BSX - news - people ), another rival, said yesterday that it plans to file soon for FDA approval of its own drug-coated stent, leaving Guidant a distant third.
NSX, which has transferred most BSX-listed companies to the National Stock Exchange of Australia, intends to use the BSX's license for a new Sydney-based exchange known as SIM VSE that targets clean-technology, biotech and renewable-energy companies.
In 1997, Angiotech Pharmaceuticals (nasdaq: ANPI - news - people ) granted Cook and Boston Scientific (nyse: BSX - news - people ) co-exclusive rights to use the drug paclitaxel to coat coronary stents.
The big issue, he wrote, is whether an intellectual property challenge from Boston Scientific (nyse: BSX - news - people ) could delay arrival of the Conor stent, which is currently expected to hit the market in 2008.
Boston Scientific (nyse: BSX - news - people ), which makes one stent, took out full-page advertisements in The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal trumpeting that the devices are safe and effective when used as directed.
But we now have a winner: Boston Scientific (nyse: BSX - news - people ) succeeded in convincing a federal judge to sideline rival Guidant's (nyse: GDT - news - people ) efforts to bring a drug-coated stent to market.
Among the luminaries who waltzed on stage for conversation were artificial intelligence godfather Marvin Minsky, Boston Scientific (nyse: BSX - news - people ) founder and billionaire John Abele, Oxbridgian longevity messiah Aubrey De Grey (who's got 536 friends on Facebook), Tesla Motors founder Martin Eberhard, sculptor Chuck Hoberman, Sims creator Will Wright, genomics pundit Juan Enriquez and computer scientist Sandy Pentland from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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