November 10, 2011 — Edwards Lifesciences Corp. announced the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) conditionally approved the addition of a second treatment group to the PARTNER II Trial. The trial is studying the company's next-generation Edwards Sapien XT transcatheter heart valve.

November 9, 2011 – AstraZeneca announced that a combined expert committee of American College of Cardiology Foundation (ACCF), American Heart Association (AHA) and Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions (SCAI) has updated its guidelines for the management of patients undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) to provide a Class I recommendation for giving the oral antiplatelet medicine, Brilinta (ticagrelor) tablets for patients undergoing PCI.

November 9, 2011 – Abiomed, a provider of heart support technologies, announced results of an economic study at the annual 2011 Transcatheter Cardiovascular Therapeutics (TCT) conference. The economic study demonstrated that Impella significantly reduced major adverse events at an incremental cost per quality-adjusted life year considered to be cost-effective for advanced cardiovascular technologies. Quality of life benefits included an increase in ejection fraction of over 20 percent and an improvement in New York Heart Association (NYHA) Class III and Class IV heart failure of over 50 percent.

November 9, 2011 – Siemens Healthcare announced that the company has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire all issued and outstanding equity of MobileMD Inc., of Yardley, Pa., a provider of health information exchange (HIE) solutions.

November 9, 2011 – PETNET Solutions Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Siemens Medical Solutions USA Inc., has entered into a nationwide commercial agreement with Eli Lilly and Company that grants Siemens PETNET Solutions the right to manufacture and distribute Lilly’s molecular imaging agent, which is currently under review by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for positron emission tomography (PET) imaging.

November 8, 2011 — Biosensors International Group Ltd. announced final results of the AXXESS PLUS trial, which demonstrated the long-term efficacy and safety of the Axxess stent for patients with coronary bifurcation lesions. The device is a self-expanding bifurcation stent that releases Biolimus A9 from an abluminal biodegradable polymer coating.