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Boston Scientific 8-K 2007 UNITED
STATES
SECURITIES
AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington,
DC 20549
FORM
8-K
CURRENT
REPORT
PURSUANT
TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE
SECURITIES
EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934
Date
of
Report (Date of earliest event reported): March 1,
2007
BOSTON
SCIENTIFIC CORPORATION
(Exact
name of registrant as specified in charter)
Registrant’s
telephone number, including area code: (508)
650-8000
Check
the
appropriate box below if the Form 8-K filing is intended to simultaneously
satisfy the filing obligation of the registrant under any of the following
provisions:
On
March
5, 2007, Boston Scientific Corporation (the “Company”)
issued a press
release announcing a request for information received on March 1, 2007, from
Representative Henry A. Waxman, Chairman of the Committee on Oversight and
Government Reform of the U.S. House of Representatives, about the Company’s
TAXUS®
paclitaxel-eluting coronary stents. A copy of the press release is
furnished with this report as Exhibit 99.1. A form of the request letter is furnished
with this report as Exhibit 99.2.
The
information in this Current Report on Form 8-K and the Exhibits attached
hereto
shall not be deemed “filed” for purposes of Section 18 of the Securities
Exchange Act of 1934 (the “Exchange Act”) or otherwise subject to the
liabilities of that section, nor shall it be deemed incorporated by reference
in
any filing under the Securities Act of 1933 or the Exchange Act, regardless
of
any general incorporation language in such filing.
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SIGNATURE
Pursuant to
the
requirements of the Securities and Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, the
Registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the
undersigned hereunto duly authorized.
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TO EXHIBITS
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