February 9, 2009 - Emory University cardiologists are testing a modification of angioplasty known as postconditioning, designed to reduce permanent damage to the heart muscle after a heart attack.
February 6, 2009 - Biosense Webster Inc., a Johnson & Johnson company, today said the FDA granted market approval to the NaviStar ThermoCool Catheter for the treatment of drug refractory recurrent symptomatic paroxysmal atrial fibrillation, when used with compatible 3D electroanatomic mapping systems.
February 6, 2009 – The FDA has approved St. Jude Medical Inc.’s medical device system that allows a single defibrillation lead connection between a cardiac resynchronization therapy defibrillator (CRT-D) and the leads that send electrical impulses to the heart to treat the symptoms of heart failure.
Providing exceptional cardiovascular care for patients to achieve the best possible outcomes is the number one goal for ...
February 6, 2009 - Medtronic Inc. today said it completed the acquisition of Ablation Frontiers Inc. for an initial payment of $225 million plus potential additional payments contingent upon achievement of certain clinical milestones.
February 6, 2009 - Boston Scientific Corp. yesterday submitted to the FDA the final modules of the company’s pre-market approval (PMA) applications for both its TAXUS Liberte Atom Paclitaxel-Eluting Coronary Stent System and its TAXUS Liberte Long Paclitaxel-Eluting Coronary Stent System.
February 6, 2009 - Premier Purchasing Partners yesterday announced new agreements for drug-eluting coronary stents with Abbott Laboratories Inc., Abbott Vascular and Cordis Corp. The 13-month agreements went into effect Jan. 1, 2009 and are available to acute care and continuum of care members of the Premier healthcare alliance.
Cardiac positron emission tomography (PET) is growing in popularity among cardiologists because it provides the ability ...
February 5, 2009 - Resuscitation device maker ZOLL Medical Corp. said this week it filed a lawsuit against Alsius Corp. and Alsius Medical Corp. in the Central District of California alleging infringement of its patents for catheter-based induced hypothermia devices.
February 5, 2009 - BeneChill Inc. this week started the PRINCE (Pre-Resuscitation Intra-Nasal Cooling Effectiveness) study, a randomized study to determine whether intra-nasal cooling using the RhinoChill device during resuscitation increases patient and survival rates, including ischemic events such as cardiac arrest and stroke.
February 5, 2009 - AGA Medical Corp. last week said following its previous favorable structural heart occluder patent infringement final ruling by the German court of appeals over Occlutech GmbH of Jena, Germany, it has calculated and notified Occlutech of the amount of damages that it will seek from Occlutech based on the court’s ruling.
When performing radiofrequency (RF) ablation to treat cardiac arrhythmia, medical professionals must balance the safety ...
February 4, 2009 – The Medical Imaging & Technology Alliance (MITA) endorses policies that ensure medical imaging is utilized appropriately and that unnecessary scans are reduced.
February 4, 2009 - Calgary Scientific Inc. launched the multi patent-pending PureWeb Platform, a medical application platform designed to enable both Calgary Scientific’s ResolutionMD products and third-party applications to be delivered over the web.
February 4, 2009 — Early registration for the 2009 Annual Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society Conference & Exhibition (HIMSS 2009) is running ahead of the 2008 trend, which ended with a record 29,174 attendees, according to HIMSS.
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February 4, 2009 – Hospitals are increasingly looking at interoperability between systems as they move to digital imaging and purchase systems from different vendors, according to a new report from Kalorama Information titled "Medical Imaging Markets, Volume I: Radiography (X-Ray, Digital X-Ray, Fluoroscopy, Mammography, and CT Markets)."
February 4, 2009 - Heart Imaging Technologies (HeartIT) said it has created the first free Web site allowing patients to upload and share diagnostic-quality medical images using nothing but a standard Web browser. The URL is www.webpax.com.
February 3, 2009 - New research proves increased QT variability is an independent predictor of ventricular tachycardia (VT) or ventricular fibrillation (VF) in men, while in women, QT variability alone does not pose a risk of arrhythmic events.