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March 16, 2009 - TeraRecon reported that it has achieved greater than 10,000 licensed concurrent users globally for its Aquarius advanced visualization solution, and claims that the figure gives the company the largest market share in the direct-to-end-user market for advanced visualization.

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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.

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March 16, 2009 – Invatec today announced CE-certification of a new coronary balloon, the IN.PACT Falcon paclitaxel-eluting PTCA balloon catheter, which is one of the first drug-eluting balloons designed specifically to treat atherosclerosis in the coronary arteries.

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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.

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March 16, 2009 – Today the Access to Medical Imaging Coalition (AMIC), a coalition of physician, patient and imaging manufacturer groups, will hold a media conference to unveil a new analysis on Medicare claims data from 1998 – 2007 for advanced imaging services (CT, MR and Nuclear Medicine (including PET).

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March 13, 2009 - Medical testing meets medical texting with the FDA’s clearance of GE Healthcare’s latest ECG (electrocardiogram) solution, the portable MAC 800, which is based on cell phone technology.

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March 13, 2009 - Details from the DAVID (Dual Chamber and VVI Implantable Defibrillator) II Trial suggest atrial pacing may be considered a safe alternative to ventricular pacing, but affords no clear advantage over a mode that minimizes pacing. The results of the study were published this week in the March 10, 2009, issue of the Journal of the American College of Cardiology (JACC).

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March 13, 2009 – HIMSS said today that with less than a month before HIMSS 2009, total conference registration parallels the record-breaking registration figures during this same time frame for last year’s show.

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March 13, 2009 - A comprehensive analysis published this week in The Lancet from the ABSORB clinical trial demonstrated that Abbott’s bioabsorbable drug eluting stent (DES), currently in development, successfully treated coronary artery disease and was absorbed into the walls of treated arteries within two years.

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March 13, 2009 - BridgePoint Medical Inc. completed the first human clinical case in the U.S. using its CrossBoss CTO Catheter and Stingray CTO Re-Entry System.

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March 13, 2009 – HemCon Medical Technologies is displaying at SIR 2009 its new flexible HemCon Patch designed for use for external, temporary control of bleeding during interventional and diagnostic cardiac catheterization, interventional radiology, electrophysiology and dialysis access procedures.

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March 13, 2009 -Medical device pioneer Stentys said today it extended its self-expanding and disconnectable technology platform to include a second major indication - acute myocardial infarction (AMI). Two patients were successfully treated during AMI procedures last week by Drs. S. Verheye in Antwerp, Belgium and K. E. Hauptmann in Trier, Germany.

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March 12, 2009 – Today, FDAnews and the Neocure Group revealed details today of the upcoming Medical Device Reimbursement Strategies Workshops, which will be held in Boston (April 30-May 1) and Minneapolis (August 24-25).

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March 12, 2009 - CeloNova BioSciences Inc. said yesterday physicians performing a live stent implantation during the annual scientific meeting of the Sociedad Venezolana de Cardiologia Intervencionista (SOVECI), March 13-14, elected to use the CATANIA Coronary Stent System with NanoThin Polyzene-F to demonstrate the benefits of this innovative new stent technology.

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March 11, 2009 - Siemens Healthcare will showcase advanced imaging applications like the new syngo iFlow and a new medical-grade large display, which provides a 56-inch active, full-color widescreen for procedures at SIR booth 400 in San Diego March 7 – 12, 2009.

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