Top Massachusetts medical device companies

In a challenging year, Boston Scientific Corp. lost a patent infringement case against Johnson & Johnson, causing the company to take a $197 million after-tax charge in the first quarter of 2009. Thermo Fisher, which had a massive 157 percent revenue hike in 2007 after acquiring Fisher Scientific, posted a modest 7.7 percent rise in 2008. Companies ranked by revenue in 2008.

Rank	Company	Revenue (millions)	Change (percent)
1	Thermo Fisher Scientific	$10,498.0	7.7
2	Boston Scientific Corp.	$8,050.0	-3.7
3	PerkinElmer	$1,937.5	13.8
4	Hologic	$1,732.3	83.0
5	Inverness Medical Innovations	$1,671.4	99.1
6	Haemonetics Corp.	$584.2	18.1
7	Zoll Medical Corp.	$394.5	17.4
8	Cynosure	$139.7	12.3
9	Candela Corp.	$132.1	-11.0
10	NxStage Medical	$128.8	114.7