Being a child of the late 1970s and 1980s, I was a big Star Wars fan. Somewhere in my basement I still have the action figure of the multi-armed surgical robot that repaired Luke Skywalker’s severed hand at the end of the movie the “Empire Strikes Back.” The resemblance of today’s multi-armed de Vinci surgical robot was not lost on those from the Star Wars generation.

February 6, 2012 — InspireMD Inc. announced positive clinical results for its MGuard stent from a controlled randomized trial conducted in Chile.

February 6, 2012 — A medical technology company commercializing the world's first and only self-apposing stent to treat acute myocardial infarction (AMI), announced today that the APPOSITION III clinical study successfully enrolled 1,000 patients suffering from a severe heart attack and that the final results of the examination 30 days after treatment will be presented during the upcoming EuroPCR international cardiology congress.

February 6, 2012 — Vascular Solutions Inc. announced it is marketing a reprocessing service for the ClosureFAST radiofrequency ablation catheter in the United States

February 6, 2012 — GE Healthcare recently announced a long-term agreement with Biosense Webster Inc. in which the companies will co-distribute their leading electrophysiology (EP) systems.

February 3, 2012 – The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved the premarket approval application (PMA) for the St. Jude Medical Therapy Cool Path Duo and Satire BLU Duo ablation catheters and the IBI 1500T-9 VI.6 cardiac ablation generator.

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