GE Healthcare announced the creation of a new business unit, Sustainable Healthcare Solutions (SHS), that will develop high-value, low-cost technologies and healthcare delivery solutions across multiple care settings. The new organization will invest $300 million as part of a multi-phase effort to develop a more robust affordable healthcare portfolio for customers. The unit will combine GE Healthcare’s operations in India, South Asia, Africa and Southeast Asia.
Beaumont Hospital - Royal Oak is the first in Michigan and one of just a handful in the United States to offer fractional flow reserve by computed tomography, also known as FFR-CT. The technology is a noninvasive, diagnostic tool recently approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and developed by HeartFlow Inc.
Procyrion Inc. of Houston has been awarded the grand prize of $20,000 in the 2015 "Create the Future" Design Contest for the first catheter-deployed heart pump intended for long-term treatment of chronic heart failure.
Providing exceptional cardiovascular care for patients to achieve the best possible outcomes is the number one goal for ...
October 5, 2015 — The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved Boston Scientific’s Synergy Bioabsorbable ...
Cyberonics Inc. announced results from the extension of the ANTHEM-HF clinical study (ENCORE Study). Results of the study presented by a prominent heart failure (HF) specialist during a major cardiology congress in the United States show that autonomic regulation therapy (ART) in patients with moderate to severe chronic HF and impaired heart function is well-tolerated, safe, improves the heart's ability to pump blood, and reduces the frequency and severity of symptoms associated with chronic HF.
October 2, 2015 — Tryton Medical Inc. announced that results of a post hoc analysis of the pivotal Tryton Randomized ...
Cardiac positron emission tomography (PET) is growing in popularity among cardiologists because it provides the ability ...
AtriCure Inc. launched the cryoFORM cryoablation probe, which offers increased probe flexibility to adapt to a variety of surgical ablation procedures. This offering adds to the cryoICE family of ablation products which are used in the cryosurgical treatment of cardiac arrhythmias.
AstraZeneca announced that Brilinta (ticagrelor) 60-mg tablets are now available in U.S. pharmacies. On Sept. 3, 2015, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved a new 60-mg dosage strength for Brilinta to be used in patients with a history of heart attack beyond the first year.
Intact Vascular Inc. announced the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has granted conditional approval for a U.S. and European investigational device exemption (IDE) clinical trial of the Tack Endovascular System.
When performing radiofrequency (RF) ablation to treat cardiac arrhythmia, medical professionals must balance the safety ...
Kimihiko Kichikawa, M.D., department of radiology at Nara Medical University in Japan, reported two-year results of the Zilver PTX post-market surveillance (PMS) study at the 2015 Cardiovascular and Interventional Radiology Society of Europe (CIRSE) meeting in Lisbon, Portugal. Kichikawa’s presentation focused on initial target data on lesion revascularization (TLR).
Stentys announced that the company’s drug-eluting stent received CE Mark for treatment of below-the-knee (BTK) arteries. The approval makes it the first self-expanding and drug-eluting stent with regulatory approval in Europe for this indication.
Galt Medical has partnered with Health Line International Corp. and launched the Nexus CT Midline Catheter with MST Insertion Kit.
Change Healthcare Cardiology Hemodynamics is an integrated hemodynamic monitoring system for monitoring vital signs and ...
October 1, 2015 — Infinitt North America will feature the Infinitt Healthcare Platform (IHP) at RSNA 2015. This ...
October 1, 2015 — The first and only system that delivers real-time X-ray radiation dose monitoring for physicians and ...
A sticky, protein-rich gel created by Johns Hopkins researchers appears to help stem cells stay on or in rat hearts and restore their metabolism after transplantation, improving cardiac function after simulated heart attacks, according to results of a new study.