August 14, 2009 – ZOLL Medical Corp. said today Basingstoke and North Hampshire Hospital in Hampshire, United Kingdom, is the first hospital to install the AutoPulse Noninvasive Cardiac Support Pump in the cardiac catheterization laboratory in the U.K.

August 13, 2009 - The Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper expressed disappointment with reports from the Atomic Energy of Canada Ltd. (AECL) that the aging nuclear reactor at Chalk River, Ontario, which produces most of the medical isotopes for Canada and the United States, will not be back up and running until the spring of 2010.

August 13, 2009 – Data published today in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology (JACC) indicates percutaneous valve repair with the MitraClip therapy can reduce acute mitral regurgitation (MR) with sustained freedom from death, surgery or recurrent MR in a substantial proportion of functional and degenerative MR patients.

August 12, 2009 – The Cardiovascular Research Foundation announced today the late breaking trials that will be presented at Transcatheter Cardiovascular Therapeutics (TCT) 2009 symposium Sept. 21-25 in San Francisco.

August 12, 2009 – Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology, collaborating with pediatric cardiologists and surgeons at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, have developed a tool for virtual surgery that allows heart surgeons to view the predicted effects of different surgical approaches by manipulating 3D cardiac MRIs of a patient's specific anatomy.

August 11, 2009 – Physicians in the United Kingdom yesterday completed patient implants using the first CE mark approved drug-eluting stent designed specifically to treat severe peripheral artery disease (PAD) blockages in the challenging and largest artery in the leg.