Former Vante CFO Adam Smith brought some unexpected controversy to the doorstep of his employer, a supplier to the medical device industry, this past week. Smith gained national attention when he posted a video on YouTube that went viral showing him berate an employee of the fast-food chain Chick-fil-A for working for the company, whose president, Dan Cathy, has openly opposed same-sex marriage. Smith was fired and issued an apology following the uproar. In other news, MPMN explores the driving factors behind M&A activity in the sector. Read about these and more top stories of the past week in our roundup below.

• Vante's CFO Fired Over Chick-fil-A Fiasco; Former CFO Issues Apology (MD+DI)
• In Chick-fil-A Gay Marriage Debate, St. Jude Medical is the Model (MedCity News)
• What's Behind the Flurry of Medical Device M&A Activity? (MPMN)
• Top FDA Officials Were Aware of Email Monitoring (Wall Street Journal)
• The Federal Government's War on Medical Innovation (Forbes)
• Hologic to Shutter Third Wave Technologies, Laying Off 130 (Qmed)
• Feds Probe Wright Medical's Profemur Metal Hip Implants (MassDevice)
• Brave New World: Medical Devices Use Biometrics to Prevent Hacks (Ars Technica)