May 11, 2012 — St. Jude Medical Inc. announced U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval of its Assura portfolio of implantable cardioverter defibrillators (ICDs) and cardiac resynchronization therapy defibrillators (CRT-Ds). The new implantable defibrillators feature SecureSense RV Lead Noise Discrimination, an algorithm that expands the St. Jude Medical ShockGuard technology.

May 11, 2012 — A team of scientists led by Stanley Fricke, M.D., of the Children's National Medical Center in Washington, D.C., broke the "magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) sound barrier," a finding that could lead to a hundred-fold increase in MRI speed, according to a new clinical study published this week in the peer-reviewed journal Medical Physics.

May 10, 2012 — New research confirms thrombus aspiration (TA) during percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) in patients with acute ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) provides long-term outcomes similar to conventional intervention with bare-metal or drug-eluting stents.

May 10, 2012 — CompuMed, Inc. announced it will offer GE Healthcare's compact ECG platform, the MAC 800, as part of a next-generation telemedicine enhanced electrocardiogram (ECG) system.

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