August 15, 2007 - Thoratec Corp., a world leader in products to treat cardiovascular disease, said today that its PMA (PreMarket Application) seeking approval of its HeartMate II for bridge-to-transplantation will undergo review by an FDA advisory panel later this year.

August 14, 2007 - High-speed dual-source computed tomography (DSCT) angiography was 95 percent sensitive and 95 percent ...

August 14, 2007 - ELA Medical Inc., a Sorin Group company that specializes in the design and manufacture of implantable ...

August 13, 2007 – A study published in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology showed that when AngioJet thrombectomy is used to remove large thrombus before placement of a drug-eluting stent (DES), it is associated with significantly lower rates of subsequent death, repeat heart attack and stent thrombosis.

August 9, 2007 - Compared with their counterparts a decade ago, today's heart attack patients are receiving emergency angioplasty or clot-busting drugs to re-open clogged arteries at a far greater rate, but 10 percent of patients who could benefit from this life-saving treatment still do not receive it, according to a study published in The American Journal of Medicine by Yale and University of Mi

August, 8, 2007 - The Medicines Company announced that the new guidelines released yesterday by the American College of ...

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.