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Google and Johnson & Johnson are relocating and expanding their joint venture surgical robotics company, Verb Surgical, Mercury News reports.

EyePoint Pharmaceuticals appointed Göran Ando, MD, to its board of directors June 26.

President Donald Trump's prediction that several drug companies would make "voluntary, massive price cuts," in two weeks has yet to come to fruition, the Washington Post reports.

Austin, Texas-based TVA Medical received FDA de novo marketing approval for its everlinQ endoAVF System. 

As more patients turn to ASCs for care, these facilities are forced to reallocate resources to improve care while simultaneously reducing costs.

Watertown, Mass.-based EyePoint Pharmaceuticals will sell approximately $25.5 million of units to Second Tranche Investors in a transaction expected to close June 25.

The limited U.S. launch of DePuy Synthes' Dynacord suture used for soft tissue repair is underway, Medical Design & Outsourcing reports.

CVS Health has recruited the U.S. Postal Service to pick up prescriptions at CVS stores and deliver them to customers' homes, The Wall Street Journal reports.

Sixty-four percent of consumers believe product recalls are more about government regulations than consumer safety, according to a Stericycle Expert Solutions survey. 

The Cardinal Health Foundation will award more than $3 million in grants to 70-plus nonprofit organizations in Ohio, West Virginia, Kentucky and Tennessee to fight the opioid epidemic.