In a recent article on massdevice.com, Brad Perriello shares interesting data from Pricewaterhouse Coopers’ (PWC) US Pharmaceutical and Life Sciences Deals Insights Quarterly report Medical device mergers and acquisition deals in the first quarter fell from eight in the Q1 of 2012 to seven in Q1 of 2013. The same time comparison had the total value dropping from $2.3 billion down to $1.7 billion. Dimitri Drone from PWC purports that this decline is not necessarily reflected of the true deal activity. Active and not yet closed deals are not included in these numbers and Drone says “There’s a lot of talk about M&A among the people we interact with in medical devices.” The report still forecasts a growth overall in medical device M&A activity for 2013. What do you think?  Are you seeing more of an appetite for deals? To review the PWC report, click here, and for the full article click here.