Cardiac Diagnostics

This channel includes news, videos, podcasts and other content on new technology innovations for cardiac diagnostic systems and techniques. This includes laboratory testing, blood tests including troponin testing, electrocardiogram (ECG) systems, point of care testing systems, genetic testing, cardiac patient monitoring devices including wearable sensors, and studies showing new ways to diagnose heart diseases.

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October 11, 2012 — Edwards Lifesciences Corp. announced it has completed the acquisition of BMEYE B.V., a privately held ...

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October 8, 2012 — The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments ...

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October 5, 2012 — LipoScience Inc., a highly innovative diagnostic company that is advancing patient care by developing ...

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October 1, 2012 — SunTech Medical’s One-Piece Durable Cuffs are a new line of easily disinfected, reusable cuffs for ...

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September 28, 2012 — MindChild Medical Inc. announced that it has received 510(k) premarketing notification clearance ...

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September 28, 2012 — Accumetrics Inc., developer of the VerifyNow System, the first rapid and easy-to-use point-of-care ...

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September 13, 2012 — SunTech Medical will display its blood pressure monitoring technology at the International Society ...

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September 4, 2012 — Philips Heathcare announced that mVisum Inc.’s STEMI Alert smartphone app is now available to work ...

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Sept. 3, 2012  — Due to newly released evidence linking the aftermath of Japan’s 2011 earthquake with an increase in the ...

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August 30, 2012 — Copeptin predicts prognosis in patients with heart failure, according to research presented at the ...

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Verifynow platelet testing clopidogrel nonresponders
Feature | Nicole Fornell, Pharm D

A major issue with clopidogrel is that one-third of patients are nonresponders because they lack the enzymes to ...

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Ticagrelor, Brillinta, is the newest antiplatelet agent on the market. Ticagrelor is a reversible nonthienopyridine P2Y12 receptor antagonist that prevents signal transduction and platelet activation.
Feature | Antiplatelet and Anticoagulation Therapies | Nicole Fornell, Pharm D

The standard-of-care for dual antiplatelet therapy (DAPT) for more than a decade has been clopidogrel (Plavix) plus ...

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Feature | Dave Fornell

August 22, 2012 — Comedian Rosie O'Donnell’s heart attack last week is helping increase public education about how women ...

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August 13, 2012 — Analog Devices Inc. (ADI) has introduced a low-power, single-lead, heart rate monitor analog front end ...

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August 9, 2012 — CardioDx Inc. announced that Palmetto GBA, a national contractor that administers Medicare benefits ...

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