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January 12, 2012 – Access to capital, a burdensome and uncertain regulatory environment, and lack of innovation and productivity in research and development are the biggest threats to the biomedical industry's growth over the next five years, according to biomedical company CEOs surveyed by CHI-California Healthcare Institute, BayBio and PwC US.
January 12, 2012
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January 12, 2012 – Masimo announced U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) 510(k) clearance and full market commercial launch of the Masimo Pronto-7—a palm-sized handheld device designed for quick and easy noninvasive spot-checking of total hemoglobin (SpHb), SpO2, pulse rate, and perfusion index.
January 12, 2012
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January 12, 2012 — Simbionix USA Corp. recently announced advanced virtual reality (VR) simulators that can communicate in Chinese, Japanese and Russian, in addition to English.
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January 12, 2012 — A project led by The American Society of Echocardiography (ASE) will utilize the latest technological innovations in the field to bring cardiovascular ultrasound to rural India.
January 12, 2012
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January 12, 2012 — An article in the January issue of the Journal of the American College of Radiology summarizes methods for radiation dose optimization in pediatric computed tomography (CT) scans.
January 12, 2012
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January 11, 2012 — HeartWare International, Inc. and Dualis MedTech GmbH, a subsidiary of AVRA Surgical, Inc., announced an agreement to develop ventricular assist devices with wireless, transcutaneous energy transfer system (TETS) technology exclusively for HeartWare.
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January 11, 2012 – Siemens Healthcare has announced that the version 2.0 of the Acuson SC2000 volume imaging ultrasound system has received 510(k) clearance from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
January 11, 2012
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January 9, 2012 – Janssen Research and Development, LLC (JRD) announced today that it has submitted a supplemental new drug application (sNDA) to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) seeking approval for the use of Xarelto (rivaroxaban), an oral anticoagulant, to reduce the risk of (thrombotic) cardiovascular events in patients with acute coronary syndrome (ACS).
January 09, 2012
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January 9, 2012 - Uninsured patients, and those with Medicaid, receive far less imaging services than those with private insurance during emergency department (ED) visits, according to a study in the January issue of the Journal of the American College of Radiology.
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January 9, 2012 - GE Healthcare announced the Brivo NM615 has received clearance from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
January 09, 2012
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January 9, 2012 – A registry that includes every patient in Sweden having percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) found use of newer generation drug-eluting stents (DES) is associated with lower rates of restenosis, stent thrombosis and mortality than older DES and bare-metal stents.
January 09, 2012
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January 6, 2012 – Bracco Diagnostics said it plans to close out the recall process for its CardioGen-82 cardiac perfusion radiotracer with a list of actions to bring the product back to market.
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January 6, 2012 - C. R. Bard recently announced it acquired drug-eluting balloon maker Lutonix Inc. for $225 million. Following successful approval of a U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) pre-market approval (PMA), an additional $100 million will be paid.
January 06, 2012
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January 6, 2012 - Bracco Imaging SpA has acquired Swiss Medical Care (SMC), a Swiss company headquartered in Lausanne and engaged in research, production and marketing of automated systems for the administration of contrast agents for diagnostic imaging.
January 06, 2012
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January 6, 2012 – A study led by researchers from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine has identified a molecular pathway that leads to this abnormal blood clotting and have turned it off using a popular class of cholesterol-lowering drugs; statins.
January 06, 2012