News | Stem Cell Therapies

April 18, 2017 — A team of biomedical engineering researchers, led by the University of Minnesota, has created a ...

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News | Cardiovascular Ultrasound

April 17, 2017 — To bolster its technology and treatment capabilities for coronary and peripheral artery diseases across ...

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News | Radiation Dose Management

A new study led by UC San Francisco has found that radiation doses can be safely and effectively reduced – and more consistently administered – for common computed tomography (CT) scans by assessing and comparing doses across hospitals, and then sharing best practices for how much radiation to use.

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News | Cath Lab

Some doctors have higher or lower than expected death rates from coronary angioplasty procedures, also known as percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI). However, doctors should not be judged solely on the rate of patients who die from the procedure, as the rate is highly variable over time, according to a recent study in JACC: Cardiovascular Interventions.

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News | Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy Devices (CRT)

The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) recently issued medical technology guidance recommending the use of Boston Scientific Corp. cardiac resynchronization therapy defibrillators (CRT-D) powered by EnduraLife Battery Technology for treating patients with heart failure.

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News | Cardiac Diagnostics

Grey hair has been linked with an increased risk of heart disease in men, in research presented recently at EuroPrevent 2017, April 6-8 in Malaga, Spain. EuroPrevent is an annual congress of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC).

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The Unify ICD is one of the SJM devices in an FDA warning letter
Feature | Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillator (ICD) | Dave Fornell

April 14, 2017 — The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) sent a warning letter to Abbott/St. Jude Medical (SJM) this ...

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Videos | Ventricular Assist Devices (VAD)

A discussion with William O'Neill, M.D., FACC, FSCAI, medical director of the Center for Structural Heart Disease at ...

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News | Hypertension

Vascular Dynamics Inc. (VDI) a privately held medical device company developing novel solutions for the treatment of hypertension, today announces it has completed a $10.4 million financing.

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News | Radiopharmaceuticals and Tracers

The University of Missouri Research Reactor (MURR) and its partners Nordion and General Atomics (GA), announced in March that MURR’s License Amendment Request (LAR) has been submitted to the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC). This marks a critical step towards implementing domestic U.S. production of molybdenum-99 (Mo-99). Once operational, production from this facility will be capable of supporting nearly half of U.S. demand for Mo-99, which currently must be imported from outside North America.

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The shift to value-based payment models requires focused attention on quality and cost. Lumedx’s Cardiovascular ...

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News | Blood Testing

April 13, 2017 — A study published recently in the American Association for Clinical Chemistry’s (AACC) Journal of ...

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cardiac CT showing a severe right coronary artery lesion on a Toshiba Aquillion One
Feature | CT Angiography (CTA) | Dave Fornell

Cardiac computed tomography (CT) imaging really took off a decade ago with the introduction of 64-slice scanners, which ...

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News | Peripheral Artery Disease (PAD)

PinnacleHealth CardioVascular Institute last week enrolled the first patient in the United States in a trial assessing the safety and effectiveness of a new type of approach for blockages in the leg artery.

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News | Robotic Systems

Corindus Vascular Robotics Inc. announced that the first robotic-assisted percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) procedures were performed in Asia using its CorPath GRX System. One of these procedures was transmitted live from Fu Wai Hospital to the more than 8,000 attendees at the China Interventional Therapeutics Conference. The annual conference, being held in Beijing, China this year, is the largest interventional cardiology conference in the Asia Pacific region.

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