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CardioFocus Inc. announced that its HeartLight Endoscopic Ablation System is being featured in three new major clinical studies currently underway. Collectively, up to 1,000 AF patients will be enrolled in these studies.

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News | Stem Cell Therapies

In petri dishes in her campus laboratory at New Jersey Institute of Technology, Alice Lee is developing colonies of cardiac cells, formed into chambers, that pump and contract like a human heart. Derived from stem cells, these primitive organs will help her achieve a research milestone: to observe in microscopic, real-time detail how the heart repairs itself after injury.

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News | Ultrasound Imaging

To better prepare its ultrasound students to compete and thrive in the evolving healthcare environment, Oregon Institute of Technology (Oregon Tech) partnered with Mindray North America to update department and education capabilities with 25 new Mindray DC-8 Exp high-performance ultrasound systems.

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Technology | Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI)

GE Healthcare announced Signa Premier, a new wide bore 3.0T magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) system, is now available for sale in the United States. Signa Premier is the result of a four-year collaboration with the National Football League (NFL) and research institutions around the world working to design new imaging tools, particularly to aid researchers in the detection of biomarkers for the potential diagnosis of mild traumatic brain injury (TBI). GE said the system delivers a new level of clinical performance with additional research-focused capabilities, especially for neurology and oncology research.

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News | Interventional Radiology

Cancer patients at Moffitt Cancer Center in Tampa, Fla., now have access to advanced diagnostic imaging for fast and safe exams with the facilityโ€™s Infinix-i 4-D computed tomography (CT) system from Toshiba Medical, a Canon Group company. Moffitt, one of the nationโ€™s leading cancer hospitals, is the first healthcare provider in the state of Florida to use the systemโ€™s merging of the Infinix-i angiography system and Aquilion Prime CT system for interventional radiology (IR) and oncology procedures. The system may help clinicians improve visualization and workflow and increase patient safety. A ribbon-cutting ceremony was held on July 25 to mark the occasion.

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News | Cardiovascular Ultrasound

Carestream will showcase its Carestream Touch Prime and Touch Prime XE Ultrasound Systems at the Society for Vascular Ultrasound conference that begins on Aug. 3. These systems are currently available in the United States and Canada.

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News | Heart Failure

August 3, 2017 โ€” The Asian Pacific Society of Cardiology (ASPC) held its first-ever late-breaking clinical trials ...

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News | Cardiac Diagnostics

August 3, 2017 โ€” A study to reduce the strongest inherited risk factor for heart attack and stroke is now underway at ...

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News | Antiplatelet and Anticoagulation Therapies

Abbott recently announced the first patient has been enrolled in a clinical study evaluating the short-term use of common blood thinning medicines, called dual antiplatelet therapy (DAPT), after receiving a Xience everolimus-eluting coronary stent.

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Feature | Hemodynamic Monitoring Systems | Dave Fornell

The current generation of hemodynamic monitoring systems can help catheterization labs electronically document the ...

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News | Heart Valve Technology

Aug. 3, 2017 โ€” 4C Medical Technologies Inc. minimally invasive therapies for structural heart disease said its ...

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News | Atrial Fibrillation

Aug. 2, 2017 โ€” A new health economic analysis from the landmark FIRE and ICE Trial was published this week in the ...

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News | Peripheral Artery Disease (PAD)

Aug. 1, 2017 โ€” LimFlow SA announced publication of positive results from the pilot study of the LimFlow Percutaneous ...

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News | Heart Valve Technology

Aug. 1, 2017 โ€” CoreMedic, a start-up developing the ChordArt trancatheter mitral valve repair system, has received ...

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News | Atrial Fibrillation

Aug. 1, 2017 โ€” The Japanese Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare has granted Japanese market clearance for the ...

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