Issue Contents:  Aug 24, 2010

• Index: confidence declines in paying for healthcare services
• Renegade reviewer Smith said to have parted ways with FDA
• Report from Europe: Svelte receives CE mark for Acrobat SOAW stent system
• Deals roundup: Roche acquires BioImagene in $100M debt-free deal
• Washington roundup: FDA to conduct follow-up workshop on nanotechnology
• Coming Wednesday in MDD Perspectives: Smartphones poised to make HIT more attractive, but there's a downside
• Financings roundup: SurgiVision cuts IPO by nearly half, to $15.2M
• Grants roundup: ETP and EF award $200,000 to advance epilepsy research
• Agreements/contracts: Ingen fills Oxyview quota for Mountainside Medical
• People in the News
• Patent watch: EPO upholds GlideScope Video Laryngoscope patent
• Product Briefs
• MDD's Cardio Extra

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