December 29, 2008 – When Zemiva, an imaging agent by Molecular Insight Pharmaceuticals Inc., is combined with the standard of care for the diagnostic evaluation of the chest pain patient, improved the detection of cardiac ischemia by more than 50 percent greater than the standard of care when compared to the standard of care alone.

December 29, 2008 - Calgary Scientific Inc. plans to release its ResolutionMD Cardiac advanced visualization suite of ...

December 23, 2008 - St. Jude Medical Inc. said this week it completed the acquisition of Radi Medical Systems AB for $250 million in cash.

December 23, 2008 - Volcano Corp., a manufacturer of products for the diagnosis and treatment of coronary and peripheral artery disease, said today that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Axsun Technologies Inc., a privately-held company that is a developer and manufacturer of lasers and optical engines used in medical optical coherence tomography (OCT) imaging systems and advan

December 22, 2008 - W. L. Gore & Associates last week said Rush University Medical Center in Chicago is the first medical center to enroll a patient in the Gore REDUCE Clinical Study using the percutaneous GORE HELEX Septal Occluder to close patent foramen ovale (PFO).

December 22, 2008 - C. R. Bard Inc. recently received FDA clearance to market the E-Luminexx Vascular Stent - a flexible, self-expanding nitinol stent.

December 22, 2008 - Edwards Lifesciences Corp. recently said it expects to drive sales growth and profitability in 2009 ...

December 19, 2008 - GE Healthcare’s Medical Quality Improvement Consortium (MQIC) quality data system was selected by the Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Services (CMS) as a reporting registry for the 2008 program, and GE expects this registry certification to continue in 2009.