In this week's news, MD+DI offers perspectives from the AdvaMed 2011 conference. Also, the inventor of the pacemaker died this week, at the age of 92.

• MD+DI's exclusive coverage of AdvaMed 2011 (MD+DI)
• A look at Samsung's entry into medical devices (Economist)
• A medical monitoring device takes center stage at the trial of Michael Jackson's doctor (Foxnews.com)
• Kathleen Sebelius wants medical device makers to raise user fees (Mass Device)
• Wilson Greatbatch, who invented the pacemaker, has died (MedPage Today)

—Jamie Hartford