Boston Scientific Gets $750 Millon for Surgery Businesses

Boston Scientific (NYSE: [[ticker:BSX]]) announced it has sold its cardiac surgery and vascular surgery businesses to the Getinge Group for $750 million in cash. The Natick, MA-based firm first said it would sell the divisions back in August.

Author: Rebecca Zacks

Rebecca is Xconomy's co-founder. She was previously the managing editor of Physician's First Watch, a daily e-newsletter from the publishers of New England Journal of Medicine. Before helping launch First Watch, she spent a decade covering innovation for Technology Review, Scientific American, and Discover Magazine's TV show. In 2005-2006 she was a Knight Science Journalism Fellow at MIT. Rebecca holds a bachelor's degree in biology from Brown University and a master's in science journalism from Boston University.