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A new study in Denmark links healthy teeth and gums with heart health. Theheart.org reports that Danish investigators ...

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Catheters of all types as well as other intravascular devices (IVDs) that allow access to the bloodstream are potential ...

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Public confidence in the FDA is low and big changes may be in order to fix the system for approving and regulating drugs ...

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ATS Medical, Inc., a manufacturer of cardiac surgery products and services focused, has announced completion of its ...

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Americans Andrew Z. Fire and Craig C. Mello have won the Nobel Prize in medicine Monday for their discover of “RNA ...

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FDA and Duke Clinical Research Institute will be working to develop a new generation of tools that enable early identification of potential cardiac side effects of drugs and devices. The agency will use a database comprising more than 200,000 ECGs to conduct the research.

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A new, private research group, the Center for Medical Technology Policy is being formed to provide healthcare clinicians ...

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Researchers at the Technion Institute, Israel, are developing a new method that may prevent heart attacks following ...

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Expanding their existing strategic collaboration for atherosclerotic plaque analysis, FoxHollow Technologies and Merck & ...

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Administering a cholesterol-lowering drug prior to heart bypass surgery or surgical repair of a faulty heart valve may reduce the occurrence of atrial fibrillation, a common heart rhythm disturbance triggered by these surgeries. The research was published in “Circulation: Journal of the American Heart Association.”

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Final recommendations issued Sept. 28 from the Heart Rhythm Society are aimed at providing heart patients with clearer ...

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Zargis Medical Corp., a spin-off from Siemens Corporate Research and a majority-owned subsidiary of Speedus Corp., has ...

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Researchers in The Netherlands say they’ve realized the dream of truly interactive 3-D medical imaging: A company called Crosslinks is working to develop and market a software invention in Europe and around the world that provides 3-D visualization that clinicians and researchers can not only view head-on, but actually walk around and through.

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The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) plans to create a pilot program that will help public and nonprofit healthcare providers establish state and regional broadband networks dedicated to healthcare services, as well as provide funding for these networks to connect to Internet2’s nationwide advanced research and education network.

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Johnson & Johnson has filed a $5.5 billion lawsuit against Guidant Corp. in U.S. District Court in New York, claiming that Guidant leaked confidential information to Abbott Laboratories to secure a crucial component of the deal with Boston Scientific, reports Modernhealthcare.com.

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