The first battery-powered pacemaker was tested nearby. Surgeons performed early open-heart surgeries in the floors above in the U’s Mayo Building. Here, Medtronic scientists recently poked ...

In 1949, US engineer and inventor Earl Bakken founded Medtronic from a garage in Minnesota, where he developed the first external, battery-operated, wearable artificial pacemaker. Today ...

Medtronic has hired a new chief financial officer away from French carmaker Renault. The Dublin-based medical-device maker said Tuesday that Thierry Pieton will take on the CFO role starting March ...

New Medtronic CFO Thierry Piéton. [Image from Mobilize Financial Services] Medtronic (NYSE: MDT) + announced today that it appointed Thierry Piéton as its new chief financial officer (CFO ...

In an on-stage interview with BIV editor-in-chief Hayley Woodin Hastings, JEDI Minister Diana Gibson told award finalists and guests in attendance that the province is closely monitoring Canada ...

Central 1 Credit Union chief economist Bryan Yu told BIV that B.C.’s economic outperformance is threatened by workers having completed large capital projects. “Our GDP is about 11 per cent ...

The MiniMed 780G with the Simplera Sync CGM and accompanying devices. [Image courtesy of Medtronic] The Diabetes business unit at Medtronic (NYSE:MDT) could have some exciting offering in the pipeline ...

Among those presenting, Medtronic CEO Geoff Martha outlined multiple growth drivers in the pipeline, zeroing in on pulsed field ablation (PFA), renal denervation, neuromodulation and automated insulin ...