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September 2, 2008 - GE Healthcare launched a new ultrasound system for radiology and vascular applications that fuses ...

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September 5, 2008 - Pathway Medical Technologies Inc., today received FDA clearance to market Jetstream, a peripheral atherectomy catheter designed for use in the treatment of peripheral artery disease (PAD) in the lower limbs.

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Biotronik GmbH launched the Lumax 540 series, which includes implantable cardioverter defibrillators (ICDs) and a cardiac resynchronization therapy defibrillator (CRT-D), which is used with Biotronik Home Monitoring to enable continuous automatic daily data transmission of the patient’s cardiovascular status via the Internet.

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September 5, 2008 - Boston’s Brigham & Women’s (B&W) Hospital, a 777-bed teaching affiliate of Harvard Medical School ...

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September 5, 2008 - Digirad Corp. today announced the initial clinical trial of its new SPECT imaging system ...

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Vascular Solutions will partner with Radius Medical Technologies for the U.S. launch of the MICRO Elite Snare, a device ...

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September 4, 2008 - GE Healthcare's Diagnostic Cardiology Service team prides itself on exceeding the expectations of ...

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Spectranetics Corp. recently announced the availability of its LLD EZ Lead Locking Device (LLD) for the removal of ...

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TRUMPF Medical Systems Inc. offers an in-light high-definition (HD) operating room camera, the TruVidia HD, which ...

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St. Jude Medical’s Promote RF CRT-D (cardiac resynchronization therapy defibrillator) and Current RF ICD (implantable cardioverter defibrillator) are radiofrequency (RF) wireless devices used to treat patients with heart failure and with potentially lethal heart arrhythmias.

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Feature | Dave Fornell

The use of embolic protection devices (EPD) during percutaneous cardiac procedures has helped reduce the number of complications due to debris being released into the bloodstream and causing blockages in smaller vessels. The devices are designed to capture and remove debris that may be dislodged during procedures. There are three classes of EPD devices:

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Feature | Cristen Bolan

In as much as the environment in which you live can affect your quality of life, so can the environment in which someone receives medical care affect patient outcome – at least in theory.

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September 3, 2008 – While a recent study into whether using unselected and selected bone-marrow derived cells can help with regeneration of heart tissue did not lead to significant improvement of LVEF and LV volumes in comparison to control group, there was a trend toward significant improvement of LVEF in patients with severely depressed baseline LVEF receiving either MNC or CD34 CXCR4 bone ma

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Cook Medical recently launched the EVOLUTION-Shortie Mechanical Dilator Sheath Set, a tool for venous entry during ...

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Carestream Health’s CARESTREAM Virtual 3D Solution is a 3D software package designed to deliver advanced 3D processing ...

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