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August 8, 2007 - A U.S. District Court judge enforced a settlement this week between Abbott Laboratories Inc. and Israeli company Medinol Ltd. to removed an entanglement for a key drug-eludting stent heart device Abbott is bringing to the United States.

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August 7, 2007 - The American College of Cardiology and the American Heart Association have jointly released revised Guidelines for the Management of Patients with Unstable Angina (UA)/Non-ST- Elevation Myocardial Infarction (NSTEMI).

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August 7, 2007 - Researchers found that a pulse-based system for screening older patients for atrial fibrillation to ...

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August 7, 2007 – Doses of radiation can vary in pediatric coronary CTA, a heart-imaging test to detect fatty or calcium ...

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August 7, 2007 – After using a portable echocardiography to test the potential of B-type natriuretic peptide (BNP) assay ...

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August 6, 2007 - Boston Scientific Corp. announced that it will not move forward with a public offering of shares of its $1.4 billion surgical devices unit, which earns as much as a fifth of the company's sales, in a plan to reverse a drop in its share price.

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August 6, 2007 – In a statement on The Children’s Health and Medicare Protection Act of 2007 (CHAMP Act) (H.R. 3162), which the House passed with a vote of 225-204 on August 1 of 2007, the American College of Cardiology (ACC) responded to lawmakers, urging them to address serious concerns about this bill’s proposed new physician payment structure.

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August 6, 2007 - Atrium Medical Corp., a manufacturer of chest drainage products, announced that its soft and firm ...

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August 6, 2007 - While the use of emergency angioplasty and clot-busting drugs to treat heart attack patients in the ...

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August 3, 2007 - World Heart Corp. (WorldHeart), a developer of mechanical circulatory support systems, recently ...

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August 3, 2007 – Novation, a healthcare contracting and services company of VHA Inc. and the University HealthSystem Consortium (UHC), awarded ev3 Inc. three, three-year contracts beginning Oct.

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August 3, 2007 - CryoCor Inc., a medical device company focused on the treatment of cardiac arrhythmias, announced today that the FDA has granted pre-market approval (PMA) for its Cardiac Cryoablation System for the treatment of right atrial flutter, enabling CryoCor to target over 200,000 U.S. patients treating flutter with cryoablation annually.

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August, 3, 2007 - In patients with arrhythmogenic right ventricular dysplasia/cardiomyopathy (ARVD/C), there is a high rate of recurrence following radiofrequency (RF) catheter ablation following electrophysiologic mapping, researchers report in the July 31st issue of the Journal of the American College of Cardiology.

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August 3, 2007 - Volcano Corp. announced it has received approval by regulatory authorities in Japan to market the ...

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August 2, 2007 — Siemens Medical Solutions Diagnostics announced the availability of the ADVIA 1800 chemistry system ...

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