Colibri Heart Valve LLC announced that enrollment its first-in-human feasibility study is continuing, and early clinical results from the second implantation of the Colibri device confirm the positive clinical findings observed in its first use. The Colibri transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) system is the first low profile, 14 French, pre-mounted, pre-crimped, and pre-packaged, ready-for-use TAVI system.

IMRIS Inc. has obtained regulatory CE mark for Visius iCT, the first and only ceiling-mounted intraoperative computed tomography (CT), allowing for sales and marketing in the European Union.

The William Stamps Farish Fund in Houston has donated $400,000 to a collaboration between the Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences (ICES) at The University of Texas at Austin and the Texas Heart Institute (THI) to study life-threatening vulnerable plaques, the cause of at least two-thirds of all heart attacks, and new ways to prevent them.

August 12, 2013 — Ambio Health, a healthcare technology company specializing in health monitoring systems, announced its Ambio remote health monitoring system, a wireless remote health and activity monitoring tool, received Class II 510(k) clearance from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA).

Positron Corporation entered into a multi-year radioisotope supply agreement with iThemba LABS of Cape Town, South Africa. The supply agreement contracts the procurement of raw material, strontium-82 (Sr-82) from iThemba LABS for further production of the active pharmaceutical ingredient (API) at Positron's radioisotope production facility in Lubbock, Texas. In September 2013, Positron will receive relevant volumes of strontium-82 for qualification and will commence with commercial availability beginning in February 2014. This additional supply will enhance the industry's strontium-82 supply and increase the availability of radiopharmaceuticals to the end user. Positron intends to make this Sr-82 API supply available to all rubidium-82 generator producers in the marketplac

NDS Surgical Imaging (NDSsi) has released its DomeAccess remote picture archive and communication systems (PACS) management software tool. DomeAccess software allows users to manage their Dome diagnostic display workstations from anywhere in the world.

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