A clinical trial being conducted at Mission Health on a special catheter could one day help people with a persistent heart condition that does not respond to medication.

The Healthcare Accreditation Colloquium announced that Texas Children's Hospital has earned the designation of Accredited Pediatric Heart Failure Institute following 12 months of work and an extensive onsite review.

August 15, 2014 — Mardil Medical announced earlier this year the first-in-human implants using the VenTouch ventricular reshaping device performed by a surgical team at the Institut Jantung Negara (IJN) National Heart Institute in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. This novel, investigational device was implanted in two patients with severe functional mitral valve regurgitation (FMR), which was reduced to only trace amounts after implantation. The patients are part of a multicenter, global clinical study.

August 15, 2014 — Marking the 30th anniversary of the publication of their first joint guidelines for the diagnosis and treatment of heart disease, the American College of Cardiology (ACC) and the American Heart Association (AHA) published an extensive review of the process and methodology for evaluating cardiovascular research and writing practice guidelines for clinicians.

SunTech Medical acquired King’s College London’s central blood pressure technology as well as the assets of Centron Diagnostics Ltd., including the clinically-validated cBP301 Central Blood Pressure Monitor.

Approximately 70 percent of the recent decline in healthcare spending growth from 2009-2011 was due to the economic downturn, and not to other factors such as health sector responses to the Affordable Care Act, according to a new study published in the August issue of Health Affairs.