Researchers at Wayne State University have made a fundamental discovery and, in subsequent collaboration with scientists at La Jolla Institute for Allergy and Immunology (LIAI), are one step closer to the goal of developing the world’s first T-cell peptide-based vaccine for heart disease — the number one killer in the nation.


Occlutech announced that it has successfully obtained a ruling by the U.K. Patents Court in the High Court of Justice in London that invalidates AGA/St Jude's patent —EP0957773B1 in the United Kingdom.

August 1, 2014 — The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) issued a rule today finalizing Oct. 1, 2015, as the new compliance date for healthcare providers, health plans, and healthcare clearinghouses to transition to ICD-10. This deadline allows those in the healthcare industry time to ramp up their operations to ensure their systems and business processes are ready to go on Oct. 1, 2015.

August 1, 2014 — MedXT, a cloud platform provider for medical imaging, launched a cost-effective cloud-based, mobile solution cleared by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA).


In a community hospital and emergency medical services (EMS) system, the standard 12-lead electrocardiogram (ECG) is the primary and initial objective diagnostic tool used by emergency medical technicians (EMT) and emergency department (ED) physicians in diagnosing an ST elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) and activating the cardiac catheterization laboratory (cath lab) for emergent coronary angiography and primary percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI).



July 31, 2014 — Radiation therapy may offer a promising new noninvasive alternative treatment for the millions of Americans whose high blood pressure doesn’t respond to medication, suggests preliminary research presented at the 56th annual meeting of the American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM) in Austin, Texas.


As attention increases on the effects of radiation exposure among interventional cardiologists[1], Corindus Vascular Robotics announced the recent installations of its CorPath System at five facilities: UH Case Medical Center, Cleveland, Ohio; Virginia Commonwealth University Medical Center, Richmond, Va.; Miami Cardiac and Vascular Institute, Miami; the second system in Michigan; and first system in North Carolina.

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