News | Mobile Devices

Medication management platform Medisafe released data showing that, on average, hypertensive patients increase their prescription refills by almost 10 percent after they start using the company's mobile app.

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News | Wearables

The thought of losing up to $14 a week along with personalized goal setting may have motivated ischemic heart disease patients to increase their exercise, according to a new clinical trial published in Journal of the American Heart Association, the Open Access Journal of the American Heart Association/American Stroke Association.

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News | Stent Grafts

Cardinal Health announced that its Incraft Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm (AAA) Stent Graft System has received a favorable recommendation on its premarket approval application from a key U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) panel. The FDA Circulatory System Devices Panel of the Medical Devices Advisory Committee voted 11 to 4 in favor of the benefits of the device.

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News | EP Mapping and Imaging Systems

Volta Medical, out of Marseille, France, has developed the first artificial intelligence (AI) software to guide cardiologists during heart surgeries to treat atrial fibrillation (AF) or any open-heart surgery.

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Videos | Cardiovascular Ultrasound

Thomas Porter, M.D., professor of medicine and director of the echocardiography lab at the University of Nebraska ...

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News | Stroke

NewYork-Presbyterian, in collaboration with Weill Cornell Medicine, Columbia University Irving Medical Center and the Fire Department of New York (FDNY), is expanding its fleet of Mobile Stroke Treatment Units (MSTU) to Queens and Brooklyn. Thanks to a generous donation by the W.P. Carey Foundation, this makes NewYork-Presbyterian the first health system in the country to operate three of these advanced units.

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News | Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI)

Whole-body magnetic resonance angiography (MRA) found a surprisingly high prevalence of atherosclerosis in people considered at low to intermediate risk for cardiovascular disease, according to a study appearing online in the journal Radiology. Almost half of all study participants had at least one narrowed artery.

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News | Cardiovascular Business

A new report from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) discusses the continued quality, safety and effectiveness of servicing of medical devices by original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) and third-party entities.

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News | Stroke

June 7, 2018 — Results from an international clinical trial show that combining clopidogrel and aspirin following a ...

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News | Embolic Protection Devices

June 7, 2018 — The first clinical cases have been completed where the Emboliner Embolic Protection Catheter was used ...

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Sponsored Content | Case Study | Radiation Dose Management

Radiation dose management is central to child patient safety. Medical imaging plays an increasing role in the accurate ...

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News | Intra-Aortic Balloon Pumps (IABP)

June 6, 2018 — Maquet Datascope Corp. said it is recalling the CardioSave Hybrid Intra-aortic Balloon Pump (IABP) due to ...

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Feature | Angiography | Dave Fornell, Editor

June 6, 2018 — Here is a checklist of dose-sparing practices for angiographic X-ray imaging used in the cath lab. This ...

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Technology | PET-CT

June 5, 2018 — The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has cleared the Biograph Vision, a new positron emission ...

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News | EP Lab

June 5, 2018 — Philips Healthcare has signed an agreement to acquire EPD Solutions, a provider of image-guidance in ...

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