The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced a Class I recall of Baylis Medical’s TorFlex Transseptal Guiding Sheath Kit device designed for catheterization specific heart chambers.

Zevacor Molecular, a healthcare firm that manufactures and distributes positron emissions tomography (PET) and single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) radiopharmaceuticals, has purchased the first 70 MeV Cyclotron dedicated to medical use in the United States from Ion Beam Applications, S.A. (IBA).

A new way of using blood pressure-lowering medications could prevent more than a fourth of heart attacks and strokes — up to 180,000 per year — while using less medication overall, according to new research from the University of Michigan (U-M) Health System and the VA Ann Arbor Healthcare System.

By Dave Fornell, DAIC editor

LAA occluder, Watchman

According to Millennium Research Group (MRG), the anticipated Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval of Boston Scientific's Watchman device will drive rapid growth in the market for global left arterial appendage (LAA) closure devices.
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