May 31, 2007 - The American Heart Association is launching a community-based program to reduce the toll of the deadliest kind of heart attack: an ST-elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI).
May 31 -- Cardiac Science Corp. announced today it has entered into a two-year marketing partnership with the City of Minneapolis, serving as the recommended provider of automated external...
May 30, 2007 -- The Channel Group, LLC announced today that it has formed Lesanne Life Sciences, LLC, a medical diagnostic company that is developing a simple blood test to detect the occurrence...
May 30, 2007 -- Daxor Corp., a medical instrumentation and biotechnology company, announced the June 2007 publication of the Journal of Nuclear Medicine Technology article, "Blood Volume Analysis...
May 30, 2007 -- The Canadian Press reports this week that people in the greatest need of cardiac medications and interventions are less likely than moderately ill patients to get the full range of...
May 30, 2007 -- As concern and investigation continue concerning the link between drug-eluting stents and late-stent thrombosis, focus is now turning to the issue of improperly implanted stents by...
May 30, 2007 -- Xtalks and eResearchTechnology will present a Web conference titled, "Best Practices in Cardiac Safety Data Collection Before and After the Thorough QT Trial," on June 7, 10 a.m....
May 30, 2007 — Cardiovascular Associates, Kingsport, TN, has announced the successful implant of a new investigational cardiac medical device called the Optimizer for the treatment of heart...
May 29, 2007 — The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced on May 25 a decision to provide coverage for Doppler monitoring of cardiac output in certain settings, removing the...
May 29, 2007 — Frost & Sullivan is launching a new end user study on the state of adoption for atrial fibrillation therapies in the U.S. cardiovascular market. Through more than 150 detailed...
May 29, 2007 — Stentys says the results of preclinical testing of its bifurcated stent were reported at last week's EuroPCR 2007 Cardiovascular Congress.
May 29, 2007 — Abbott announced Friday, May 25, that it has initiated a voluntary, nationwide recall of its ARCHITECT STAT Troponin-I diagnostic test. The product was distributed to clinical...
May 29, 2007 — Agfa HealthCare, a leading provider of IT enabled clinical workflow and diagnostic imaging solutions, has unveiled ORBIS, its Hospital and Clinical Information System (HIS/CIS), for...
May 29, 2007 — Abbott announced positive results last week from ABSORB, the world’s first clinical trial evaluating the safety and performance of a fully bioabsorbable drug eluting stent platform...
May 29, 2007 — The FDA has cleared the Mynx VCS vascular closure system (VCD) by AccessClosure designed to seal a puncture site in the femoral artery and stop the bleeding after a cardiac...
May 29, 2007 — Medtronic Inc. has enrolled the first patient in the landmark PROTECT clinical study, the largest randomized trial focusing on the safety of drug-eluting stents (DES).
May 29, 2007 — Doctors at University of Pittsburgh Medical School, (UPMC) have begun a study using an investigational cardiac device, the VentrAssist, Left Ventricular Assist System (LVAD) to see...
May 29, 2007 — Orqis Medical Corp., a clinical-stage company developing devices for the treatment of congestive heart failure (CHF), has announced that the 150th patient has been enrolled in the...
May 29, 2007 — The FDA has cleared the CORDIS ENTERPRISE Vascular Reconstruction Device and Delivery System under the Humanitarian Device Exemption — it is used with embolic coils for the...
May 29, 2007 — Boston Scientific Corp. has received CE Mark for its TAXUS Liberte Long paclitaxel-eluting coronary stent system, allowing doctors to treat longer coronary artery lesions with a...
