July 22, 2007 – ev3 Inc. and FoxHollow Technologies, Inc. announced a definitive agreement by which ev3 and FoxHollow will merge in a $780 million cash and stock transaction to create a new...
July 19, 2007 – Abbott announced that the first patient was enrolled in its XIENCE V SPIRIT WOMEN clinical trial, the first clinical trial designed to study the safety and effectiveness of drug...
July 20, 2007 – Oraganogenesis Inc. announced that it has received regulatory approval in Canada and Europe for BioSTAR, a device that incorporates a bioresorbable collagen scaffold used to treat...
July 20, 2007 - U.S. doctors implanted fewer coronary stents in June than any other month in the last year, according to a market researcher, indicating...
July 20, 2007 – Despite forecasts by analysts at Thomson Financial that Boston Scientific Corp. would earn $150 million in the second quarter of this year, the company came up short at $115...
July 19, 2007 – AtCor Medical Holdings Ltd., the developer and marketer of the SphygmoCor system, which noninvasively measures central blood pressures, announced that it has signed an $1.8 million...
July 18, 2007 - An analysis based on computerized simulation models suggests that the lifetime risk of cancer associated with radiation exposure from a computed tomography (CT scan) coronary...
July 18, 2007 - In a related study of over 25,000 initially healthy women, higher triglyceride levels measured after not fasting is associated with an increased risk for cardiovascular events, but...
July 18, 2007 - Cardium Therapeutics and its operating unit, InnerCool Therapies, have released its new CoolBlue surface temperature modulation system and RapidBlue endovascular temperature...
July 18, 2008 - Cardium Therapeutics announced that the FDA has given it clearance for fast track designation to its lead product candidate, Generx (alferminogene tadenovec, Ad5FGF-4), designed to...
July 18, 2007 - Abiomed Inc. announced that its Impella 2.5 and Impella 5.0 circulatory support technologies, new catheter-based circulatory support technology for heart failure patients, have...
July 17, 2007 - TeachIVUS is a Web-based simulation teaching tool used by cardiovascular health professionals to provide ongoing education in this ever-changing field.
July 17, 2007 - St. Jude Medical Inc. today announced that it received regulatory approval from the Japanese Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare and reimbursement approval for its first CRT-D...
July 17, 2007 - Cordis Corp. announced the introduction in the European market of the Fire Star Rx (Rapid Exchange) PTCA (Percutaneous Transluminal Coronary Angioplasty) Dilatation Catheter, which...
July 17, 2007 - Medtronic Inc. announced launch of Reveal XT, an Insertable Cardiac Monitor that features long-term and continuous monitoring of Atrial Fibrillation (AF), in the European market as...
July 17, 2007 - Boston Scientific Corp. today announced the implantation of its TAXUS Petal Bifurcation Paclitaxel-Eluting Stent System (TAXUS Petal Stent) in a patient in New Zealand, marking the...
July 17, 2007 – LDS Hospital will become certified to implant the CardioWest temporary Total Artificial Heart (TAH-t), the first and still only FDA approved temporary total artificial heart in the...
July 16, 2007 - World Heart Corp. (WorldHeart), a developer of mechanical circulatory support systems, announced the animal implant of a the PediaFlow, a miniaturized, pediatric, ventricular...
