FDA Expands Use of Endovascular Graft to Treat Aortic Tears

January 17, 2012 — The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) expanded the approved usage for an endovascular graft manufactured by W.L. Gore and Associates Inc. to include treatment of life-threatening tears or ruptures of the aorta (thoracic ao...

FDA Releases Preliminary Findings From Ongoing CardioGen-82 Investigations

January 13, 2012 – The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is updating healthcare professionals and the public about preliminary findings from ongoing investigations following the voluntary recall of CardioGen-82 last July by the manufacturer,...

Growth in U.S. Health Spending Remains Slow in 2010

January 12, 2011 – U.S. healthcare spending experienced historically low rates of growth in 2009 and 2010 according to the annual report of national health expenditures (NHE) published in the January issue of the journal Health Affairs....

‘Heartless’ Politician Re-Elected, Performs Duties of Office With Artificial Heart

January 12, 2012 — Jack Miller, 62, is probably the only politician in America who smiles when people call him “heartless.” Four months ago, doctors at Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) Medical Center in Richmond removed his dying heart...

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Congenital Heart Patients to Benefit From Wireless, Battery...
January 27, 2012 — A miniature, battery-free, wireless, cardiac implant being developed by a University of Michigan researcher and the Ann Arbor, Mich.,...
Crux Biomedical's IVC Filter Receives CE Mark Approval
January 27, 2012 — Crux Biomedical announced it has received CE mark approval for their revolutionary inferior vena cava filter (IVCF) with bi-directional...
Arizona Heart Equips ORs With Ziehm Mobile C-Arms
January 27, 2012 — Arizona Heart, has chosen Ziehm digital flat-panel C-arms for its three advanced technology suites. The Ziehm Vision RFD hybrid edition...
St. Jude Medical Announces FDA Approval of Industry’s First...
January 27, 2012 — St. Jude Medical announced U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval of its Unify Quadra cardiac resynchronization therapy...
St. Jude Medical has FDA Approval of Industry’s First Quadripolar Pacing System
St. Jude Medical announced U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval of its Unify Quadra cardiac resynchronization therapy
BodyTom has First Use
Rhode Island Hospital is the first hospital in the world to acquire the BodyTom portable, intra-operative, multi-slice computed tomography...
Philips Released Xper Flex Cardio System for Hemodynamic Monitoring
Philips Healthcare announced the release of the Xper Flex Cardio Physiomonitoring system, a hemodynamic cardiac monitoring solution used to...
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Advances in CT Perfusion Imaging
The next big advancement in cardiac imaging is likely to be computed tomography (CT) perfusion imaging. This enables one commonly available modality to image...
Growth in U.S. Health Spending Remains Slow in 2010
January 12, 2011 – U.S. healthcare spending experienced historically low rates of growth in 2009 and 2010 according to the annual report of national health...
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‘Heartless’ Politician Re-Elected, Performs Duties of...
January 12, 2012 — Jack Miller, 62, is probably the only politician in America who smiles when people call him “heartless.” Four months ago, doctors at...
Survey of Biomedical CEOs Finds Lack of Investment,...
January 12, 2012 – Access to capital, a burdensome and uncertain regulatory environment, and lack of innovation and productivity in research and development...
Editor's Choice for Most Innovative New Technology at RSNA 2011
Vendors showcase the latest medical imaging technological advances each year during the annual...
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Editor’s Pick of Most Innovative Technology Presented at TCT 2011
Each year that I attend Transcatheter Cardiovascular Therapeutics (TCT), I comb the event and its...
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Abbott Wants to Prove Stents Trump CABG
The Holy Grail sought for more than two decades by interventional cardiology has been proof that...
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Cardiac CT in the Emergency Department: Are You Ready?
Performance of cardiac CT (CCTA) in the emergency department (ED) is rapidly becoming the standard-of-care in patients presenting to the ED with chest pain...
Webinar: Growing a Cardiac Rhythm Program in a Community...
GE Healthcare and Diagnostic & Interventional Cardiology present a free, one-hour webinar about how to create an effective electrophysiology program...
Webinar Explores 3.0T Clinical Cardiac MR
Earn CME credit and learn the latest trends in cardiac magnetic resonance (MR) at 3.0T.  Orignally broadcast  September 8, 2011.  Archive...

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Abbott Wants to Prove Stents Trump CABG

The Holy Grail sought for more than two decades by interventional cardiology has been proof that minimally invasive...

Advances in Cardiac CT Imaging

Computed tomography (CT) scanner manufacturers say they are tracking numerous trends in the cardiac imaging market...

Enhancing Cardiac Nuclear Imaging

There are currently three major trends in cardiac nuclear perfusion imaging technology: advances in detector...

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