St. Jude Medical has launched its Unify Quadra cardiac resynchronization therapy defibrillator (CRT-D) and Quartet left ventricular quadripolar pacing lead. It features four electrodes spaced over...
February 9, 2012 — Healthcare imaging specialist Barco announced that it has signed an agreement to acquire U.K.-based JAOtech, a manufacturer of patient entertainment and point-of-care terminals...
February 9, 2012 — Valley Presbyterian Hospital (VPH) was the site for the first implantation in the United States of a new heart device since the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved...
February 9, 2012 — DSM announced a successful collaboration with medical manufacturer EPflex Feinwerktechnik GmbH to launch a new set of guidewires with ComfortCoat hydrophilic coating, a...
February 9, 2012 — Wolters Kluwer Health announced King’s Daughters Medical Center has selected its ProVation MD software for cardiology procedure documentation and coding in its cardiac...
A 3-D view does more than make for exciting movies in a theater; it can also improve the care of animals. The Chicago Zoological Society’s (CZS) Brookfield Zoo is the first North American zoo to...
February 6, 2012 — A medical technology company commercializing the world's first and only self-apposing stent to treat acute myocardial infarction (AMI), announced today that the APPOSITION III...
February 6, 2012 — Vascular Solutions Inc. announced it is marketing a reprocessing service for the ClosureFAST radiofrequency ablation catheter in the United States
February 6, 2012 — GE Healthcare recently announced a long-term agreement with Biosense Webster Inc. in which the companies will co-distribute their leading electrophysiology (EP) systems.
February 3, 2012 – The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved the premarket approval application (PMA) for the St. Jude Medical Therapy Cool Path Duo and Satire BLU Duo ablation...
February 3, 2012 — Colibri Heart Valve received an notification it received patents for a new transcatheter heart valve from the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
February 3, 2012 — Medtronic Inc. issued a statement on the results of two studies evaluating the use of the Medtronic CoreValve system delivered through the direct aortic implantation approach....
February 2, 2012 — Abiomed Inc. announced that initial clinical data from the safety study for Symphony was presented by Renzo Cecere, M.D., FRCSC, FACS, associate professor of surgery at McGill...
February 2, 2012 — GE Healthcare announced Innova image guided systems (IGS) 620 and 630, its next generation of electrophysiology (EP) biplane X-ray imaging.
February 2, 2012 — The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and representatives from the medical device industry have reached an agreement in principle on proposed recommendations for the third...
February 2, 2012 — Aria Health, the largest healthcare provider in Northeast Philadelphia and Bucks County, is the first on the East Coast to utilize Epoch, the latest generation of the...
February 2, 2011 – Biotronik has successfully completed its final interoperability testing process for Biotronik Home Monitoring, an Internet-based system for patient and implantable cardiac...
February 2, 2012 — AngioDynamics entered into a definitive agreement to acquire privately held Navilyst Medical in a transaction valued at $372 million based on the Jan. 30 closing stock price of...
February 1, 2012 — Boston Scientific announced the first patient use and European market launch of the Promus Element Plus everolimus-eluting coronary stent system. The first patient implant in...
February 1, 2012 — Toshiba America Medical Systems announced U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) clearance of the Aquilion prime computed tomography (CT) system, the latest addition to the...
January 31, 2012 — At the upcoming February meeting of the Society for Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance (SCMR) in Orlando, Fla. TomTec will introduce its 2-D Cardiac Performance Analysis magnetic...
January 31, 2012 — Since its launch less than a year ago, more than one million computed tomography (CT) scans have been contributed to the American College of Radiology (ACR) Dose Index Registry...
Updated appropriate use criteria offer detailed guidance on when to use an invasive procedure to improve blood flow to the heart and how to choose the best procedure for each patient. The clinical...
January 31, 2012 — Medtronic, Inc. announced U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval and launch of the DF4 High-Voltage Connector System, a right ventricular lead and connector used with...
January 30, 2012 — Positron Corp., a molecular imaging healthcare company specializing in the field of nuclear cardiology, announced Jan. 23 that its wholly owned subsidiary, Manhattan Isotope...
January 30, 2012 — Medtronic, Inc. announced the completion of patient enrollment in the extreme risk study in its CoreValve United States Pivotal Trial. The company received approval from the U.S...
January 30, 2012 — Expanded cholesterol assessment of moderate risk patients can play an important role in identifying and monitoring the progression of atherosclerosis. That’s according to a...
The 2012 American College of Cardiology (ACC) meeting in Chicago, March 24-26, includes five sessions of late-breaking trials. The ACC announced the following trials will be included:
January 27, 2012 — A miniature, battery-free, wireless, cardiac implant being developed by a University of Michigan researcher and the Ann Arbor, Mich., company Integrated Sensing Systems, Inc. (...
January 27, 2012 — Crux Biomedical announced it received CE mark approval for its inferior vena cava filter (IVCF) with bi-directional retrieval (BDR). Vena cava filters are designed to trap...
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 delivers distortion-free, high-resolution...
January 26, 2012 — Heart Hospital of Austin opened a heart valve clinic, the first of its kind in the region. The clinic gives new hope to patients with severe aortic stenosis who were previously...
January 26, 2012 — The RhinoChill IntraNasal cooling system has been nominated for one of the European medical device industry’s most prestigious awards.
January 26, 2012 — Amorcyte LLC, a NeoStem company, announced the enrollment of the first patient in the Amorcyte PreSERVE Phase II trial for acute myocardial infarction. The study is a...
January 25, 2012 — CJPS Medical Systems announced that VitalPoint, its remote patient monitor, can be used with Microsoft Windows-based tablet PCs. This announcement comes on the heels of CJPS...
January 25, 2012 — CardioFocus, Inc. developer of the HeartLight Endoscopic Ablation System (EAS) for the treatment of atrial fibrillation (AF) announced that a new study in the Journal of...
January 25, 2012 — Terumo Cardiovascular Systems announced today that it has entered into an exclusive agreement with LAAx Inc. to distribute the TigerPaw System II, a left atrial appendage (LAA)...
January 25, 2012 — Physicians at University Hospitals (UH) Case Medical Center enrolled their first patient in LEVANT 2, a global, multicenter, randomized clinical trial evaluating the safety and...
January 25, 2012 — Rhode Island Hospital is the first hospital in the world to acquire the BodyTom portable, intra-operative, multi-slice computed tomography (CT) body scanner.
January 25, 2012 — Philips Healthcare announced the release of the Xper Flex Cardio Physiomonitoring system, a hemodynamic cardiac monitoring solution used to facilitate invasive investigation of...
January 23, 2012 – Boston Scientific Corp. said the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey has found all the asserted patents for a coronary stent in a lawsuit brought by Johnson...
January 23, 2012 — CardioComm Solutions, Inc. a provider of ECG acquisition and management software solutions, received clearance from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for over-the-...
January 23, 2012 — A collection of real-life data from 5,000 atrial fibrillation (AF) patients across seven countries will generate invaluable insights into one of Europe's leading causes of...
January 23, 2012 — Pregnant women who develop dangerous blood clots in the leg often forgo the most effective treatment for fear of harming the baby. Yet treatment to remove the clot is not only...
January 20, 2012 - BridgePoint Medical Inc. this week signed an agreement with Covidien to exclusively license the rights to its peripheral vascular products used to treat chronic total occlusions...
January 20, 2012 – Nuclear cardiology imaging company Positron Corp. this week acquired Manhattan Isotope Technology LLC (MIT). Positron has acquired all of the assets, business operations and...
January 20, 2012 - Robert J. Kennedy, M.D., interventional radiologist at Holmes Regional Medical Center in Melbourne, Fla., this week presented data on thrombus resolution and hemodynamic...
January 19, 2011 –– Interim analysis of the FAME II trial found a highly statistically significant reduction in the need for hospital readmission and urgent revascularization when fractional flow...
January 19, 2012 – New findings from a research study led by physicians at Scripps Health reveal that the investigational drug cangrelor can achieve very...
January 18, 2011 – Medtronic Inc. announced the CE mark and international launch of the Endurant II AAA stent graft system, which can treat patients with abdominal aortic aneurysms through...
January 18, 2011 – Epicardial ablation device vendor nContact Inc. said data presented by physicians in two posters at the 17th Annual International Boston...
January 18, 2012 — Baptist Cardiac & Vascular Institute of Miami announced a partnership with the University of Heidelberg, one of the largest and most important centers for patient care,...
January 18, 2012 — Boston Scientific reported nine-month clinical endpoint data from its ORION trial, demonstrating positive outcomes for the Epic self-expanding nitinol stent in patients with...
January 18, 2012 — PLC Systems Inc. announced that final results from the MYTHOS investigator-sponsored clinical trial of RenalGuard in Italy have been published in the January 2012 issue of ...
January 17, 2012 – Terumo Americas Holding Inc., a U.S. subsidiary of Japan's Terumo Corp., announced it acquired Onset Medical Corp., which develops interventional procedural access sheath...
January 17, 2012 – Nonstop nosebleeds can be serious and frightening, often sending people to the emergency room, where their noses are packed with gauze. When that doesn’t work, nosebleeds can be...
January 17, 2012 — Killing tumors by freezing them can add precious time to the lives of women with ovarian cancer that has spread to other parts of the body. Minimally invasive cryoablation...
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-...
January 16, 2012 — Endosense has announced the European launch of the TactiCath 75 force-sensing ablation catheter as well as results of the EFFICAS clinical study of contact force-sensing in...
January 16, 2012 — Philips Healthcare announced the enrollment of the first patients in its CHILL-MI clinical study. The RAPID MI-ICE trial showed a 38 percent reduction in infarct size in STEMI...
January 12, 2012 — Clinical analytics company Humedica announced the launch of a predictive analytic model that identifies patients at high-risk for a congestive heart failure (CHF)...
January 13, 2012 — Amorcyte Inc., a NeoStem Inc. company, announced the expansion of intellectual property protection around its lead product candidate, AMR-001, with the grant of U.S. patent...
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...
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 12, 2012 – Geoffrey A. Rose, M.D., FASE, FACC, was recently appointed chairperson of the Intersocietal Accreditation Commission (IAC). Headquartered in Ellicott City...
January 12, 2012 – Stereotaxis Inc. (announced the completion of the first 50 clinical procedures using the company's new Niobe ES system to treat patients with a variety of complex cardiac...
January 12, 2012 – Access to capital, a burdensome and uncertain regulatory environment, and lack of innovation and productivity in research and development are the biggest threats to the...
January 12, 2012 – Masimo announced U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) 510(k) clearance and full market commercial launch of the Masimo Pronto-7—a palm-sized handheld device designed for...
January 12, 2012 — Simbionix USA Corp. recently announced advanced virtual reality (VR) simulators that can communicate in Chinese, Japanese and Russian, in addition to English.
January 12, 2012 — A project led by The American Society of Echocardiography (ASE) will utilize the latest technological innovations in the field to bring cardiovascular ultrasound to rural India...
January 12, 2012 — An article in the January issue of the Journal of the American College of Radiology summarizes methods for radiation dose optimization in pediatric computed tomography...
January 11, 2012 — HeartWare International, Inc. and Dualis MedTech GmbH, a subsidiary of AVRA Surgical, Inc., announced an agreement to develop ventricular assist devices with wireless,...
January 11, 2012 – Siemens Healthcare has announced that the version 2.0 of the Acuson SC2000 volume imaging ultrasound system has received 510(k) clearance from the U.S. Food and Drug...
