eCardio Diagnostics will highlight its expertise for integrating its services with customers' existing electronic medical records (EMR) systems at upcoming conferences.
St. Jude Medical Inc. announced the global launch of the Optisure defibrillation lead.
At the 63rd Annual Scientific Session of the American College of Cardiology (ACC), March 29-31 at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Washington, D.C., Siemens Healthcare will deliver solutions for sustainable cardiovascular care to aid healthcare professionals
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Medtronic, Inc. announced the first patients were enrolled in the Improve SCA Clinical Study, a first-of-its-kind study that will identify patients in developing countries at high risk for sudden cardiac arrest (SCA)–an abrupt loss of heart function that can lead to death in minutes–who have not previously experienced a life threatening arrhythmia (primary prevention patients). The first patients were enrolled at West China Hospital and Fuwai Hospital in China.
Scientists at CBSET are reminding thought leaders in renal denervation that there is a seminal experimental and computational template for the more rational, comprehensive preclinical evaluation and optimization of renal denervation devices that can be utilized during preclinical and clinical development.
Atherotech Diagnostics Lab opened its patient service center in Sarasota, Fla.
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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) granted 510(k) clearance for three new digital angiography systems from Shimadzu Medical Systems. These are the ceiling-mounted Trinias, the floor-mounted Trinias, and the Biplane models.
Manhattan Scientifics announced a collaboration with Azano Biotech that will make NanoMRX Precision Nanoparticles available for purchase.
InspireMD Inc. has enrolled the first patient into the CARENET (CARotid Embolic protection study using microNET) multi-center European clinical trial for the new CGuard carotid embolic protection system.
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Based on its recent analysis of the superconductor technology for MRI market, Frost & Sullivan recognizes Cutting Edge Superconductors, Inc. with the 2013 North American Frost & Sullivan Award for Technology Innovation Leadership.
St. Jude Medical Inc. has received approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for the Allure Quadra Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy Pacemaker (CRT-P), which provides additional pacing innovations for physicians to treat patients with heart failure (HF). The company also announced FDA approvals for the Assurity pacemaker and Endurity pacemaker families of devices.
Aerotel Medical Systems has received the CE Mark approval for its new electrocardiogram (ECG) devices, HeartView P12/8i and HeartView 12L.
Cardiac positron emission tomography (PET) is growing in popularity among cardiologists because it provides the ability ...
Biotronik has announced the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved the expansion of Biotronik’s ongoing ProMRI clinical trial. The new phase of the trial (Phase C) will study the company’s ProMRI technology in implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD) devices. Biotronik is the only company in the world with an ICD that is approved for investigational use in a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scanner. The ongoing ProMRI study is the first step in making this standalone technology available in the United States.
The NDS Surgical Imaging (NDSsi) Dome S6c diagnostic display is a 6-megapixel (MP) LED widescreen model, and the latest addition to the S-series product family. It features 30-inch widescreen viewing, can be utilized as a single 6 MP or in dual 3 MP bezel-free format and provides both grayscale and color images. A native resolution of 3,280 by 2,048 makes it ideal for viewing a wide range of medical imaging modalities including computed radiography (CR), digital radiography (DR), magnetic resonance (MR), computed tomography (CT), positron emission tomography/computed tomography (PET/CT), ultrasound and 3-D volume rendering. Offering 800cd/m² high-bright LED-backlight technology and 1,000:1 contrast ratio, the Dome S6c delivers a new benchmark in optical clarity and image brilliance in varying ambient light environments.
As long as inexpensive statins, which lower cholesterol, are readily available and patients do not mind taking them, it does not make sense to do a heart comuted tomography (CT) scan to measure how much plaque has built up in a patient’s coronary arteries before prescribing the pills, according to a new study by researchers at UC San Francisco.
March 31, 2014
