January 9, 2012 - Uninsured patients, and those with Medicaid, receive far less imaging services than those with private insurance during emergency department (ED) visits, according to a study in the January issue of the Journal of the American College of Radiology.

January 9, 2012 – A registry that includes every patient in Sweden having percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) found use of newer generation drug-eluting stents (DES) is associated with lower rates of restenosis, stent thrombosis and mortality than older DES and bare-metal stents.

January 6, 2012 - C. R. Bard recently announced it acquired drug-eluting balloon maker Lutonix Inc. for $225 million. Following successful approval of a U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) pre-market approval (PMA), an additional $100 million will be paid.

January 6, 2012 – A study led by researchers from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine has identified a molecular pathway that leads to this abnormal blood clotting and have turned it off using a popular class of cholesterol-lowering drugs; statins.

January 5, 2011 – Bayer HealthCare's oral anticoagulant tablet Xarelto (rivaroxaban) has been approved for use in the United Kingdom in two important blood-clotting disorders

January 4, 2012 - A study reported in the current issue of Pediatric and Developmental Pathology compares cardiac tissue from 12 patients with histiocytoid cardiomyopathy (HC) and 12 age-matched controls. Researchers found differences in gene expression that could indicate a predisposition for HC.