Press releases

MINNEAPOLIS, Mar 03, 2011 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Medtronic (NYSE: MDT) announced today it is recruiting runners from around the world who benefit from medical technology to participate in the sixth...

MINNEAPOLIS, Mar 02, 2011 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- In its continued commitment to reduce the global burden of non-communicable diseases (NCDs), Medtronic, Inc. today announced it will make nearly $4...

MINNEAPOLIS, Feb 28, 2011 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Medtronic, Inc. (NYSE: MDT) today announced that its Mosaic(R) bioprosthetic heart valve has demonstrated positive performance results at 12 years in a...

MINNEAPOLIS, Feb 25, 2011 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Medtronic, Inc.(NYSE: MDT) today announced that it has completed the purchase of rights to a chitosan-dextran gel technology from Adelaide Research &...

MINNEAPOLIS, Feb 24, 2011 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Medtronic, Inc. (NYSE: MDT), the world's leading medical technology company, today announced it will participate in the annual Citi 2011 Global...

MINNEAPOLIS, Feb 22, 2011 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Medtronic, Inc. (NYSE:MDT) today announced financial results for its third quarter of fiscal year 2011, which ended January 28, 2011. The company...

MINNEAPOLIS, Feb 18, 2011 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Medtronic, Inc. (NYSE:MDT) today issued a statement on results from an independent study published online in the journal Circulation, which confirmed...

MINNEAPOLIS, Feb 17, 2011 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Medtronic Inc., (NYSE: MDT), announced today thattwo-year data from the largest multicenter randomized controlled study of Kyphon Balloon Kyphoplasty...

MINNEAPOLIS, Feb 17, 2011 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Please replace the release with the following corrected version due to multiple revisions. The corrected release reads: TWO-YEAR STUDY CONTINUES TO...

MINNEAPOLIS, Feb 17, 2011 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- The board of directors of Medtronic, Inc. (NYSE:MDT), today approved a cash dividend of $0.225 per share of the company's common stock. The dividend is...

MINNEAPOLIS, Feb 16, 2011 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Medtronic, Inc. (NYSE: MDT) announced today that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has classified the corrections being made to product...

MINNEAPOLIS, Feb 16, 2011 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Medtronic Inc., (NYSE: MDT) today announced the results of the first randomized, controlled trial comparing Kyphon Balloon Kyphoplasty with...

MINNEAPOLIS, Feb 14, 2011 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Medtronic, Inc. (NYSE: MDT) announced today it will report financial results for the third quarter of its fiscal year 2011 on Tuesday, February 22,...

REDMOND, Wash. & SAN DIEGO, Feb 09, 2011 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Physio-Control, Inc., a global leader in emergency medical solutions and wholly-owned subsidiary of Medtronic, Inc., (NYSE: MDT) and...

MEMPHIS, Tenn., Feb 09, 2011 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Medtronic (NYSE:MDT) announced today that the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit affirmed that the Pivot system offered by...

MINNEAPOLIS, Feb 08, 2011 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Medtronic, Inc. (NYSE: MDT) today announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved its Revo MRI(TM) SureScan(R) pacing system, the...

MINNEAPOLIS, Feb 08, 2011 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Medtronic, Inc. (NYSE: MDT) today announced that the U.S. District Court of Delaware issued its ruling on post-trial motions filed by the parties in...

MINNEAPOLIS, Feb 04, 2011 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- A new scientific article has been published demonstrating the profound impact of spasticity on patients with multiple sclerosis and the benefits and...

MEMPHIS, Tenn., Jan 27, 2011 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Continuing a stream of recent advancements for stabilization of the spine, Medtronic, Inc. (NYSE: MDT) today announced both the release of its CD...

MINNEAPOLIS, Jan 18, 2011 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Medtronic, Inc. (NYSE: MDT) today announced it has received conditional approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to modify its...

MINNEAPOLIS & MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., Jan 13, 2011 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Medtronic, Inc. (NYSE: MDT), today announced that it has completed the acquisition of privately-held Ardian, Inc., a developer...

MINNEAPOLIS, Jan 07, 2011 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Medtronic, Inc. (NYSE: MDT), the world's leading medical technology company, today announced it will participate in the 29th annual J.P. Morgan...

MINNEAPOLIS, Jan 05, 2011 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Medtronic, Inc. (NYSE: MDT) announced today $750,000 in grants through the Medtronic Foundation to support continued healthcare infrastructure...

MINNEAPOLIS, Jan 03, 2011 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Medtronic, Inc. (NYSE: MDT), the world's leading medical technology company, today announced it will participate in the Goldman Sachs Healthcare CEOs...

MINNEAPOLIS, Dec 21, 2010 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- An estimated 1.2 million people in the United States have an abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) - a dangerous bulge or ballooning in their bodies' main...