August 22, 2012 — Authors of an article in the Journal of Endovascular Therapy have evaluated the effectiveness of endovascular brachytherapy using liquid beta-emitting rhenium-188 delivered in an angioplasty balloon, an improvement over earlier delivery methods.


Comedian Rosie O'Donnell’s heart attack last week is helping increase public education about how women’s myocardial infarction (MI) symptoms differ from men's. She posted a blog on Monday recounting her ordeal and called for women to be more vigilant in knowing the symptoms.

August 21, 2012 — Zoll Medical Corp. entered into an agreement to license Inovise Medical Inc.’s ambulatory Audicor technology as part of the advanced patient diagnostics in the LifeVest Wearable Defibrillator.

August 21, 2012 — The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) granted marketing approval for cfrQuant, coronary flow reserve (CFR) quantification software from the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth).

August 20, 2012 — Positron Corp. announced the use of its Attrius system at Caring Heart and Brain Imaging Inc. of Manasquan, N.J., which now offers amyvid positron emission tomography (PET) scans to identify the presence of plaque in the brain.

August 20, 2012 — Abbott today announced that the Xience Xpedition everolimus-eluting coronary stent system received CE mark in Europe for the treatment of coronary artery disease (CAD), and the company will immediately launch the product in CE-mark countries.

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