ConMed’s ambitions in orthopedics are to be the clinician’s support, develop differentiated offerings and avoid “me too” activity, before all notions of leading the market rankings.

Swedish pharma Orexo welcomes EVP, digital health and anti-cancer therapeutics firm Agios Pharmaceuticals announces Bristol-Myers Squibb exec as its next CSO. And a chair takes a seat at Accorda Therapeutics and RhoVac.

In 2018, the top 100 publicly listed and reportable medical device technology companies had global sales spanning from over $30bn to some $100m in the lower reaches. As the latest In Vivo Medtech 100 ranking shows, many of the major changes in value sales were linked to company restructurings. But there were some impressive organic gains too.