News | Heart Valve Technology
Edwards Lifesciences Corp. announced that Health Canada has approved the Edwards Sapien 3 transcatheter heart valve for the treatment of patients living with severe, symptomatic aortic stenosis and at high or greater risk for surgical aortic valve replacement.
July 27, 2016
News | Cath Lab
July 27, 2016 — A number of states mandate public reporting of mortality outcomes following certain cardiac procedures ...
July 27, 2016News | Genetic Testing
July 26, 2016 — A new study has identified a genetic error that weakens the aorta, placing patients with this and ...
July 26, 2016Sponsored Content
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June 17, 2025
News | Stents Bioresorbable
On July 20, Massoud Leesar, M.D., of University of Alabama at Birmingham Hospital implanted a patient with Absorb, the world’s first U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA)-approved dissolving heart stent, for the first time in Alabama.
July 26, 2016
News | Cardiovascular Business
July 25, 2016 — The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) announced that it expects to launch its new Overall ...
July 26, 2016July 26, 2016 — Hematology researchers at The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) have developed a novel ...
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Feature | Information Technology
Providing exceptional cardiovascular care for patients to achieve the best possible outcomes is the number one goal for ...
March 21, 2024
News | Cardiovascular Business
July 26, 2016 — The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has proposed the creation of new bundled payment ...
July 26, 2016
Feature | Antiplatelet and Anticoagulation Therapies | Heidi Olson, Pharm.D
With the recent introduction of several novel oral anticoagulants (NOACs) on the U.S. market that have been billed by ...
July 26, 2016
News | Angiographic Catheter
Stryker Sustainability Solutions (formerly Ascent Healthcare Solutions) is recalling Angiodynamics Soft Vu Omni Flush Angiographic Catheters due to reports of separation of the tip of the catheter from the main body.
July 25, 2016Sponsored Content
Feature | Cardiac Imaging
Cardiac positron emission tomography (PET) is growing in popularity among cardiologists because it provides the ability ...
March 05, 2024
News | SPECT Imaging
UltraSPECT Inc. announced recently that Robert Wood Johnson Physician Enterprise (RWJPE), a multi-specialty, community-based physician group in Central New Jersey, implemented UltraSPECT’s Xpress3.Cardiac solution at four of their sites.
July 25, 2016
News | Patient Engagement
July 22, 2016 — The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) recently announced 516 awardees in 47 states, Puerto ...
July 22, 2016
News | Heart Failure
CardioKinetix Inc. announced this week that 500 patients have received the company’s Parachute Ventricular Partitioning Device for heart failure. Patients have been treated in more than 15 countries, including patients in key international markets where the device is commercially available, and patients enrolled in PARACHUTE IV, the company’s U.S. pivotal trial under investigational device exemption (IDE).
July 22, 2016Sponsored Content
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When performing radiofrequency (RF) ablation to treat cardiac arrhythmia, medical professionals must balance the safety ...
December 11, 2023
News | Cardiac Diagnostics
People who develop heart failure after their first heart attack have a greater risk of developing cancer when compared to first-time heart attack survivors without heart failure, according to a recent study in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology.
July 21, 2016
Feature | Stents Bioresorbable | Alphonse Ambrosia, D.O.
Some have labeled bioresorbable scaffolds (BRS), also known as bioresorbable stents, as the fourth evolution of ...
July 21, 2016
News | Mobile Devices
July 21, 2016 — A new paper published in the June issue of Computer cautions that while mobile health (mHealth) is ...
July 21, 2016