March 18, 2009 - GE said yesterday it was awarded two 10-year contracts by the Defense Supply Center Philadelphia (DSCP) to provide products for comprehensive patient monitoring solutions, including acute patient monitoring, networking, telemetry systems, vital signs monitoring. Combined, these two contracts are valued at a maximum of $63 million annually.

March 18, 2009 - Vicor Technologies Inc. has entered into a collaborative research agreement with the University of Rochester and the Catalan Institute of Cardiovascular Sciences in Barcelona to study sudden cardiac death.

March 17, 2009 - Edwards Lifesciences Corp. announced it has completed enrollment in the 350-patient nonsurgical study arm of its PARTNER Trial for the Edwards SAPIEN transcatheter aortic heart valve.

March 17, 2009 - eCardio Diagnostics has launched an Academic Medicine initiative to provide a tailored offering to university-based health systems, marking the first time an arrhythmia monitoring company has addressed the unique workflow, teaching and research responsibilities of academic medical centers. The eCardio Academic Medicine service offers:

March 17, 2009 - Clinical pharmacology company Cetero Research and centralized cardiac testing company Cardiocore announced today a global strategic alliance to optimize the design, conduct and reporting of cardiac safety studies.

March 16, 2009 - Cordis Corp. said today it plans to launch a global, head-to-head, randomized clinical trial called NEVO II, which will compare the NEVO sirolimus-eluting coronary stent to the XIENCE V everolimus-eluting coronary stent. Cordis and Conor Medsystems LLC are sponsors of the study.

March 16, 2009 - Frost & Sullivan said it will be naming the recipients of its 2009 Excellence in Medical Technologies & Life Sciences Awards at a banquet that will take place on Wednesday, March 18, 2009, in San Francisco, CA.