LifeScan Inc. launched two new products to help hospitals improve execution of tight glycemic control protocols - the ...
March 11, 2008 – The FDA cleared an investigational device exemption (IDE) application from Life Recovery Systems to use ...
March 18, 2008 - Abiomed Inc. received conditional approval from the FDA to begin its Impella 2.5 Circulatory Support ...
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The Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions (SCAI) has partnered with the American College of Cardiology (ACC) to co-locate its 33rd annual meeting with the ACC.08 57th Annual Scientific Session to form the new SCAI-ACCi2 meeting.
March 14, 2008 - Thirteen of the 18 top-ranked U.S. News and World Report hospitals (72.2 percent) use the noninvasive ...
Biomedical Systems will be featuring its Data Exchange, a proprietary Internet-based application that has been designed ...
Providing exceptional cardiovascular care for patients to achieve the best possible outcomes is the number one goal for ...
March 12, 2008 – The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) today decided not to move forward with its proposed ...
Toshiba's fourth generation contrast-free imaging technique, Time and Space Angiography (TSA) creates images that show ...
This may be the Red Bull of interventional cardiology sessions, since The Society of Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions (SCAI) and ACC’s Innovation in Intervention: i2 Summit joined forces to form the “SCAI-ACCi2” meeting.
Cardiac positron emission tomography (PET) is growing in popularity among cardiologists because it provides the ability ...
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The success or failure of coronary intervention starts with a winning combination of guiding catheter and coronary guidewire, which gives the operator the optimal support and stability to accomplish the interventional goals. The Terumo Runthrough NS coronary guidewire has some unique properties, which allows access to a broad range of complex anatomies.
Vitrea 4.0 and ViTALConnect offer advanced visualization and analysis capabilities via workstation clients, remote clients and Web-based clients. These releases include enhancements to the company’s cardiovascular, neurovascular and gastrointestinal applications as well as improved Web-based cardiovascular analysis and distribution capabilities.
When performing radiofrequency (RF) ablation to treat cardiac arrhythmia, medical professionals must balance the safety ...
March 12, 2008 - Siemens will showcase its latest ultrasound technologies, focusing on its ACUSON S2000, ACUSON X300 and ...

Heart disease is the leading cause of death of Americans, claiming hundreds of thousands of lives yearly. The ability to ...
FUJIFILM’s Synapse 3.2.1 software, an extension of version 3.2, with a new Graphic User Interface (GUI), will be featured at ACC 2008. GUI changes include increase use of color to help identify changes in information on the display, new icons and a contrast scheme designed for radiology viewing conditions.