Inamed

At issue now is a California based company called Inamed (ph).

CNN Transcript Oct 2, 2003 2003

Final vote a close one, 9-6 in approval of actually not only letting these implants back on the market, but also letting a California-based company called Inamed to start marketing these again.

CNN Transcript Oct 16, 2003 2003

As of yesterday, an FDA advisory committee, a relatively close vote, 9-6 in favor of actually letting a corporation, known as Inamed, start to release these devices and market these devices once again.

CNN Transcript Oct 16, 2003 2003

Gastric banding exploded after 2006, when Inamed was acquired by Allergan, best known for the antiwrinkle drug Botox.

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While Inamed had employed only five people in its reimbursement department, Allergan has 100 people in that job today, and "we are monitoring how we're moving the needle," says Mr. Pyott.

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I do, however, love the historial revisionism in some that wants to pretend that mass murder did not occur in any of the regimes Inamed.

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But three or four years after surgery, Inamed says the average weight loss for Lap-Band patients is comparable to those who have bypass surgery.

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Thomas Abraham, a product marketing manager for Inamed, says Lap-Band's annual sales in the U.S. quadrupled between 2001 and 2004.

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Ipsen reacquired the rights to the drug from partner Inamed following Allergan's tender offer for the latter.

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But now the FDA is giving two companies, Inamed, now a part of Alocen (ph), and Mentor the green light to sell them broadly again.

CNN Transcript Nov 18, 2006 2006