June 6, 2011 - AccessClosure Inc announced an exclusive agreement with Biosensors International for the distribution of the Mynx Vascular Closure Device throughout the United Kingdom, Switzerland and France. The extravascular Mynx device, designed for patient comfort while providing hemostasis without sutures or implants, will be sold as part of Biosensors' interventional cardiology product range.

June 3, 2011 - IDEV Technologies announced that data from a long lesion study of 182 patients with significantly diseased superficial femoral arteries and popliteal arteries showed high patency rates and no stent fractures after treatment with the Supera Veritas Peripheral Vascular Stent System. The data were presented at the Vaatdagen 2011 (Vascular Days) Conference based on analysis by Andre Molenaar, M.D., and Peter Haarbrink, M.D., interventional radiologists at Canisius-Wilhelmina Ziekenhuis (CWZ) hospital, a leading teaching and high volume medical center in Nijmegen, The Netherlands.

June 3, 2011 - Research presented at the International Federation of Clinical Chemistry Congress and Laboratory Medicine showed that using a lower diagnostic threshold for troponin improves clinical outcomes and patient survival in patients with suspected acute coronary syndromes. Troponin is a protein found inside heart cells that is released when they are damaged by ischemia or reduced blood supply.

June 3, 2011 – European CE mark approval was granted to expand use of the VerifyNow point-of-care P2Y12 test platelet reactivity test to identify patients who are poor-responders to antiplatelet therapy (e.g. clopidogrel).

June 3, 2011 - In a two studies published recently in Heart Rhythm Society annual meeting, Investigators from the ...

June 1, 2011 – If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again. That is what St. Jude Medical is doing after one court rejected its claims that Volcano Corp. developed an optical coherence tomography (OCT) intravascular imaging system using technology it took from St. Jude.