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> Europe will see the release of a new device from Covidien ($COV), Pipeline Flex embolization, for unruptured brain aneurysms. The new technology is designed for easy deployment without unnecessarily taking up space. Story

> Consano Medical, a medical device company that split off from medical device incubator TheraNova, closed a Series A funding round at $3.9 million, thanks to the targeted investor technology of Deals Lab, an online financing platform. Release

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