March 22, 2007 — St. Jude Medical Inc. says it has received FDA approval of a new cardiac rhythm management device designed to help physicians manage heart failure (HF) patients, including...
March 22, 2007 — Pfizer says the FDA has approved the company’s Lipitor (atorvastatin calcium) Tablets to reduce the risk of nonfatal heart attacks, fatal and non-fatal strokes, certain types of...
March 22, 2007 — MedicalCV Inc. has announced it has received FDA clearance for its SOLAR Surgical Ablation System for the ablation of soft tissue. The company developed the SOLAR System to enable...
March 22, 2007 — Evalve, Inc., a privately held medical device company, has announced the FDA has approved a registry of up to 70 patients who are at high risk of mortality from surgical treatment...
March 22, 2007 — Edwards Lifesciences Corp. says it has received conditional FDA approval to initiate a pivotal clinical trial of the SAPIEN transcatheter aortic heart valve technology. The...
March 22 2007 — ZOLL Medical Corp announced today it received FDA clearance to market and sell the ZOLL M Series with Real CPR Help technology. The device enables rescuers to instantly see and...
March 19, 2007 — Onset Medical Corp. has announced it has received FDA clearance to begin marketing the SoloPath transseptal access catheter in the U.S. SoloPath utilizes Onset's patented...
March 19, 2007 — Medtronic Inc. has launched its U.S. pivotal clinical trial for the Cardioblate Surgical Ablation System to treat the cause of permanent atrial fibrillation (AF).
March 19, 2007 — CardioNet, Inc., a provider of wireless mobile cardiac outpatient monitoring solutions, has announced it has successfully completed its acquisition of Florida-based PDSHeart, Inc...
March 19, 2007 — AT&T Inc. has announced an agreement wherein it will upgrade the conference platform used by Medical Information Technology, Inc. (MEDITECH), a leading software vendor in the...
March 19, 2007 — “Health IT Strategist” reports that San Francisco-based Practice Fusion is offering its Web-based electronic medical record and practice management solutions to physicians for...
March 13, 2007 — Fujifilm Medical Systems USA Inc. has chosen Hitachi Data Systems, to provide a range of advanced storage solutions for Fujifilm’s Synapse Picture Archiving and Communication...
March 13, 2007 — Cardica Inc. announced today it has received $1.25 million in payments from Cook Medical for development and high volume production tooling for the Cook Vascular Access Closure...
March 12, 2007 — InterCure Ltd. announced today that the California Technology Assessment Forum (CTAF), a program of the Blue Shield of California Foundation, unanimously agreed at its recent...
March 12, 2007 — FORTUNE Magazine has named St. Jude Medical Inc. one of “America’s Most Admired Companies” for 2007. St. Jude Medical ranked No. 1 in the Medical Products and Equipment Companies...
March 12, 2007 — Nebraska Heart Institute, Lincoln, NE, will broadcast a minimally invasive, endoscopic ablation procedure for the treatment of atrial fibrillation (AF) on...
March 9, 2007 — New studies show that about 60 percent of drug-eluting stents are used in off-label indications in the U.S. A series of studies is published in the March 8 issue of the New England...
March 9, 2007 — Data from a multicenter registry of targeted renal therapy (TRT) in patients at high risk for contrast-induced nephropathy (CIN) were presented at the 32nd Annual Scientific...
March 9, 2007 — Datascope Corp. has received FDA 510(k) clearance to claim that its Safeguard manual compression assist device reduces active (manual) compression time needed to stop bleeding...
