August 24, 2011 — Cleveland HeartLab Inc. (CHL), a specialty clinical laboratory and disease management company, announced the completion of an $18.4-million Series B financing round. The rapidly...
August 23, 2011 — Verathon Inc. introduced the Heartscape 3-D Electrocardiogram (ECG) System with 80-lead vest in Europe. It is designed to give emergency department (ED) physicians,...
August 17, 2011 — A scientist at the Gladstone Institutes has discovered how a gene known as SIRT3 contributes to a suite of health problems, offering new insight into how to combat these...
August 11, 2011 — A physician studying the link between behavior and diet and exercise in African-American men is the inaugural recipient of the first award issued by the Coalition to Reduce...
August 8, 2011, — Cambridge Heart announced that the Freeport, Maine Fire Department has applied for a federal grant to establish firefighter screenings for sudden cardiac arrest (SCA) risk using...
August 5, 2011 — BG Medicine Inc., a company specializing in novel, biomarker-based diagnostics, will present results from several studies utilizing its galectin-3 test at the upcoming European...
August 3, 2011 — AmbiCom Holdings Inc., developer of wireless products for medical equipment suppliers, announced that it has signed an agreement with a major medical device manufacturer to...
July 25, 2011 — Cardiac Science Corp., manufacturer of automated external defibrillators (AEDs) and diagnostic cardiac monitoring devices, announced the new capability of direct communication...
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) said it is amending the classification regulation for electrocardiograph (ECG) electrodes into a class II device category, exempting these devices from...
July 14, 2011 – Cambridge Heart Inc., a developer of non-invasive diagnostic tests for cardiac disease, announced that it has reached an agreement with its original equipment manufacturing (OEM)...
June 29, 2011 – An industry-first collaboration is bringing together cardiovascular testing company Atherotech Diagnostics Lab and diabetes testing company GlycoMark. The collaboration means the two...
Jun 21, 2011 – Insurance provider UnitedHealthcare has made Cambridge Heart’s Microvolt T-Wave Alternans (MTWA) testing a covered benefit for its subscribers. UnitedHealthcare is an operating...
June 20, 2011 — Randox Laboratories, the international clinical diagnostics company, has today launched an automated laboratory assay for heart-type fatty acid binding protein (H-FABP) to improve the...
June 20, 2011 – French technology company Withings announced today the U.S. availability of its blood pressure monitor (BPM) for iPad, iPhone and iPod touch. It is offered as a modern way to measure...
June 17, 2011 – The new Pathfast cTnI-II (cardiac troponin I) test from Mitsubishi Chemical Medience Corporation has been granted 510(k) premarketing notification clearance by the U.S. Food and Drug...
June 3, 2011 - Research presented at the International Federation of Clinical Chemistry Congress and Laboratory Medicine showed that using a lower diagnostic threshold for troponin improves clinical...
June 3, 2011 – European CE mark approval was granted to expand use of the VerifyNow point-of-care P2Y12 test platelet reactivity test to identify patients who are poor-responders to antiplatelet...
June 2, 2011 – The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) this week is warning medical professionals and U.S. medical device vendors to beware of possible safety concerns and radioactive...
May 26, 2011 - Ford engineers have developed a car seat that can monitor a driver's heartbeat, opening the door to a wealth of health, convenience and even life-saving potential.
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May 26, 2011 – Cinterion, a cellular machine-to-machine (M2M) communication modules company, and TZ Medical, a manufacturer of critical-care medical products, announced Aera-CT, a lightweight and...
May 23, 2011 – An analysis of the benefits to using a fractional flow reserve (FFR)-guided intervention strategy found that the technology can improve patient outcomes while saving significant...
May 19, 2011 - Results from a study validating Cheetah Medical's noninvasive NICOM system specifically for use in patients with pulmonary hypertension were presented Wednesday, May 18th, at the 2011...
May 18, 2011 – The world’s first system to integrate the functional and anatomical modalities of fractional flow reserve (FFR) and optical coherence tomography (OCT) into one platform will be...
May 6, 2011 – The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has released its list of pre-market approval (PMA) decisions for new or enhanced medical devices from March 2011.
May 6, 2011 – New data presented at the Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions (SCAI) Scientific Sessions are the first to look at the use of highly specialized signals within...
A new version of the Lifepak 15 monitor/defibrillator is designed to help hospital, as well as pre-hospital, teams provide more effective patient care. The 15, when used together with CODE-STAT data...
April 22, 2011 – The American Diabetes Association (ADA) has invited NewCardio to present the results of a key study of the company’s urgent care solution, my3KG. Results showed that the solution...
April 13, 2011 – The U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs (VA) has awarded one of six national contracts to Cardiocom for home telehealth devices and services. Cardiocom will supply VA with its...
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) this week released its February list of device and technology premarket approvals (PMA), product development protocols (PDP), supplement and notice...
April 7, 2011 — The American College of Cardiology (ACC) 2011 in New Orleans this week offered an expo floor filled with hundreds of cardiovascular products. The following five technologies stood...
April 6, 2011 – A secure mobile app has been launched that gives clinicians access to precise, near real-time cardiac information. Data from the GE Healthcare MUSE Cardiology Information System is...
April 6, 2011 – During the American College of Cardiology’s (ACC) 60th Annual Scientific Session and Expo in New Orleans, Royal Philips Electronics demonstrated how personalized patient management...
April 6, 2011 – A new type of stethoscope shown at ACC 2011 in New Orleans offers an easy-to-use six-lead electrocardiogram (ECG) system. The Ekoscope also features electronic audio enhancement...
April 4, 2011 – A wireless remote monitoring program for patients with congestive heart failure (CHF) has been launched by Anthem Blue Cross. The program is designed to help patients better...
April 4, 2011 – A non-invasive cardiac test will be on display at the Scientific Sessions and Expo of the American College of Cardiology in New Orleans. The Multifunction CardioGram (MCG), from...
March 29, 2011 – The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) cleared a wireless point-of-care testing system that allows real time transmission of diagnostic test results generated directly from...
March 25, 2011 –At Jersey Shore University Medical Center, 66-year-old heart attack survivor Charles Theodora from Ocean Township became the first N.Y./N.J. metropolitan resident to be implanted...
March 25, 2011 – A new galectin-3 test, recently cleared by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to help assess the prognosis of patients with chronic heart failure, is now offered by...
March 21, 2011 - A pilot study in healthy children and adolescents shows that it is feasible to screen for undiagnosed heart conditions that increase the risk of sudden cardiac arrest (SCA)....
March 10, 2011 – New guidelines have been published in The Annals of Thoracic Surgery that include point-of-care testing for platelet reactivity as a new recommendation for...
March 10, 2011 – Five Methodist Healthcare facilities in San Antonio, Texas, are now using a chest pain management solution to make pre-hospital and emergent electrocardiographs (ECGs) immediately...
March 7, 2011 – Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) has granted an exclusive license to Santaris Pharma A/S for intellectual property related to the regulation of microRNA for the treatment of...
March 1, 2011 – A new study assessing the utility of genetic testing to determine a personalized warfarin dose for individual patients has begun at Overlake Hospital Medical Center in Bellevue,...
February 25, 2011 – A diagnostic test used to help treat patients with high cholesterol received CE mark approval in Europe. The KIF6 genotyping assay, from Abbott, detects a genetic marker that...
February 17, 2011 – Abnormal heart rate turbulence is associated with an increased risk of heart disease death in otherwise low-risk older individuals, according to a study funded by the National...
February 14, 2011 – Results from the CHAMPION study have been published online in The Lancet. The study demonstrated a significant reduction in heart failure hospitalization rates for...
February 14, 2011 – Cardiac surgeons now have a simple, noninvasive way to assess patients at risk for poor outcomes prior to surgery with the Invos Cerebral/Somatic Oximeter, from Covidien.
February 11, 2011 – A technology integration strategy will provide clinicians with a host of new noninvasive, continuous measurements and patient-monitoring capabilities. The joint strategy,...
February 7, 2011 – Final testing for a point-of-care blood analyzer will begin at four hospitals in North America. The QL Care (QLCA) analyzer, by CardioGenics, tests for troponin-I levels, and...
February 4, 2011 – More heart disease tests do not necessarily add up to a better diagnosis. According to a new practice guideline, a basic risk assessment that accounts for such factors as...
February 4, 2011 – Researchers at the National Institutes of Health's (NIH) Undiagnosed Diseases Program (UDP) have identified the genetic cause of a rare and debilitating vascular disorder not...
February 3, 2011 – Behrman Capital, a private equity investment firm based in New York and San Francisco, has acquired Atherotech, a cardiometabolic testing services provider. Atherotech offers...
January 31, 2011 – Parental history of heart disease nearly doubles a person’s risk in all regions of the world, even after considering all other known risk factors of heart disease. The results...
January 24, 2011 – The first U.S. clinical implant of a device designed to restore more natural breathing patterns in patients with central sleep apnea was made last week at The Ohio State...
January 4, 2010 – The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has released an update of what medical devices it expects to be developed and brought to market within the next 10 years.
January 4, 2011 – An automated, digital blood pressure device is now available in the United States and Canada. The Connex ProBP 3400, from Welch Allyn, fits in the palm of the hand and provides a...
December 22, 2010 – Thanks to advances in space technology, an iPhone will soon be able to do double-duty, keeping people in tune with their favorite music and their vital signs while they go for...
December 21, 2010 – A new service has been launched that provides 24-hour, Web-based remote monitoring follow-up services for patients with pacemakers. The service, from Philips, is the first...
December 16, 2010 – An upgraded remote ECG viewing system is now live across the United States, United Kingdom and Canada and is available for immediate download to customers in those countries....
December 13, 2010 – Two echocardiographs (ECGs) that deliver built-in, bi-directional communication to help customers connect to electronic medical records (EMRs) have been added. The two new ECGs...
December 10, 2010 – A new set of software applications that improves the quality of patient data and increases clinician productivity and efficiency has been launched. SentrySuite, by CareFusion,...
December 10, 2010 – An ECG management system is now offered with an IT solution for cardiac imaging. Siemens Healthcare now offers the ScImage PicomECG with its syngo Dynamics system.
December 6, 2010 – A new sleep study investigating the link between sleep disorders and cardiovascular disease will use the Somte PSG portable sleep-testing system, by Compumedics. The Multi-...
December 6, 2010 – A Windows 7-compatible version of an ECG management software system will be available in the second quarter of 2011. The Global ECG Management Software (GEMS 4.0) software, by...
December 6, 2010 - A blood vessel dysfunction that is linked to cardiovascular illness also appears to play a role in the development of Alzheimer's disease. Supporting data from the study was...
December 6, 2010 – The American College of Cardiology (ACC) has partnered with Philips Healthcare on a new Hospital to Home (H2H) Learning Destination that will show how to improve the continuum...
November 24, 2010 – Data from the PICTURE trial showed that an insertable cardiac monitor led to diagnosis and treatment for 78 percent of patients who experienced a recurrent syncopal (fainting)...
November 22, 2010 – The first noninvasive cardiovascular monitor with blood pressure and cardiac output measurements has been cleared by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). The ccNexfin,...
November 17, 2010 - Results from the GRAVITAS Trial found that doubling the maintenance dose of clopidogrel (Plavix) did not reduce the risk of further ischemic events after percutaneous coronary...
November 16, 2010 – A new tool for personalized preventative medicine was introduced at the American Heart Association Scientific Sessions 2010. Panasonic’s CardioHealth Station is designed to...
November 16, 2010 – A joint partnership between AirStrip Technologies and Physio-Control will allow the two companies to deliver integrated, lifesaving mobile solutions.
November 16, 2010 – New telemedicine technology allows physicians to transfer digitally captured patient sounds in real time. The Littman Scope-to-Scope Tele-Auscultation System, by 3M, can...
November 5, 2010 - A study performed by investigators from the Emergency Department of the Cleveland Clinic Foundation found that a noninvasive cardiac output monitor (NICOM) system is effective...
