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Washington Health System (WHS) provides healthcare services at more than 40 offsite locations across three counties in ...

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News | Cardiovascular Business

March 12, 2021 — Cardinal Health today announced that it is selling its Cordis cardiology and endovascular business to ...

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The Teleflex Manta large-bore vascular closure device can seal holes between 12 and 25 French.
Feature | Hemostasis Management | Dave Fornell, Editor

While many cardiac and vascular procedures have largely moved to minimally invasive techniques, the size of these ...

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News | Cardiac Diagnostics

March 3, 2021 — AliveCor recently announced a new collaboration with AstraZeneca to research new disease management ...

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News | Simulators

February 24, 2021 – German-based endovascular simulator specialist Cathi has launched a highly portable System in a ...

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News | Endovascular Aortic Repair

February 23, 2021 — Medtronic has voluntarily issued a global recall of unused Medtronic Valiant Navion thoracic stent ...

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Vaccinating patients against the flu can go a long way to helping cardiology patients stay healthy and out of the hospital during the COVID-19 pandemic, freeing up beds for COVID patients. Left photo, Getty Images, right image of COVID-19 virus from the NIH.
Feature | Coronavirus (COVID-19) | By William Schaffner, M.D., and Allen J. Taylor, M.D.

While influenza (flu) is unpredictable, the 2020-2021 influenza season may present an unprecedented dual threat: co ...

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Two examples of hand-held, point-of-care-ultrasound (POCUS) being used to get immediate medical imaging information from patients in underserved areas. Left, a Butterfly Network system using an probe and an app turns a smartphone into an ultrasound system to image a patient at a remote African clinic. Right, a GE vScan being used to image patients in a rural community in Indian as part of an American Society of Echocardiography (ASE) outreach program.
Feature | Health Disparities | By Dave Fornell, Editor

There is a lot of talk about health disparities between the insured vs. uninsured, low-income vs. higher-income, rural ...

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News | Cardiovascular Business

February 3, 2021 — Modern Vascular is a medical group that has 13 outpatient cath lab clinics to treat peripheral artery ...

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January 29, 2020 — North America’s medical devices industry saw a drop of 17.3% in overall deal activity during the ...

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An example of 3-D computer aided design (CAD) software from Materialise being used at Henry Ford Hospital to evaluate left ventricular outflow tract (LVOT) obstruction from a Sapian TAVR valve virtually implanted in the mitral valve position. Henry Ford uses both 3-D printing and CAD to plan and guide complex structural heart procedures. 
Feature | Medical 3-D Printing | By Dave Fornell, Editor

With increasing complexity of interventional structural heart disease and congenital heart disease interventions, 3-D ...

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Cardiologists are taking a closer look at the possible long-term cardiovascular effects on COVID long-hauler patients who still show symptoms long after they should be recovered from the virus. Getty Images
Feature | Coronavirus (COVID-19) | Dave Fornell, Editor

With nearly a year of experience with the COVID-19 (SARS-CoV-2) virus, it has been found that some post-COVID patients ...

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