Feature | Dave Fornell

When I attended the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) conference in February in Orlando, it ...

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June 12, 2008 – In its post-congress report, the Association of periOperative Registered Nurses (AORN) 55th annual ...

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Feature | Maureen Leahy-Patano

Nurses are the primary healthcare providers in the U.S. today, taking on more and more responsibilities within the hospital and often working long, irregular shifts. A physically demanding profession, nursing is consistently listed as one of the top 10 occupations for work-related musculoskeletal disorders, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

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June 12, 2008 - The higher the level of nicotine in the toenails, the higher the risk of coronary heart disease (CAD) ...

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June 12, 2008 - Sorin Group closed the sale of its peripheral stent business to Datascope Corp., divesting its noncore ...

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Feature | Dave Fornell and Caitlin Hosty

In addition to the key function mobile computing serves to enter real-time, bedside information into patients’ ...

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June 12, 2008 – The registry arm of a clinical study to assess the safety and effectiveness of Cook Medical’s Zilver PTX Drug-Eluting Peripheral Stent (DES) in treating peripheral arterial disease (PAD) has yielded positive interim results, trial investigators reported at the 2008 SVS Vascular Annual Meeting last week.

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June 11, 2008 - TraumaCure Inc. said last week the DOD Joint Committee on Tactical Combat Casualty Care (CoTCCC) ...

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June 10, 2008 - The use of ultrasound contrast agents during stress echocardiograms is safe, according to results ...

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Feature | Cristen C. Bolan

Researchers are using speckle tracking imaging in heart ultrasound to monitor the health of transplant acceptance, and ...

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June 10, 2008 - OrbusNeich received CE Mark approval for the Scoreflex coronary dilatation catheter, a new product that ...

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OrbusNeich's Scoreflex coronary dilatation catheter, which is only CE Mark approval, but not yet FDA cleared, is a new ...

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June 10, 2008 – A new calcium scoring method, which takes into account not only the amount of calcified plaque build-up ...

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Acusphere has submitted a New Drug Application (NDA) to the FDA for approval to market Imagify (Perflubutane Polymer Microspheres for Injectable Suspension), an ultrasound imaging agent for the detection of coronary artery disease, which could prove as accurate as nuclear stress testing.

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June 9, 2008 - Atrium Medical has begun enrollment of the first patients for their CONFIRM 1, First-in-Man (FIM) drug ...

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