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.

February 3, 2012 — Colibri Heart Valve received an notification it received patents for a new transcatheter heart valve from the United States Patent and Trademark Office. 

February 3, 2012 — Medtronic Inc. issued a statement on the results of two studies evaluating the use of the Medtronic CoreValve system delivered through the direct aortic implantation approach. Data presented at the Society of Thoracic Surgeons (STS) 48th annual meeting demonstrate positive outcomes when the CoreValve system is implanted using the direct aortic approach, which received CE mark in November 2011. The direct aortic approach is also being evaluated in the Medtronic CoreValve U.S. pivotal trial.

February 2, 2012 — Abiomed Inc. announced that initial clinical data from the safety study for Symphony was presented by Renzo Cecere, M.D., FRCSC, FACS, associate professor of surgery at McGill University, during the late-breaking clinical trials session at the Society of Thoracic Surgeons (STS) 2012 meeting in Fort Lauderdale, Fla.

February 2, 2012 — GE Healthcare announced Innova image guided systems (IGS) 620 and 630, its next generation of electrophysiology (EP) biplane X-ray imaging.

February 2, 2012 — The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and representatives from the medical device industry have reached an agreement in principle on proposed recommendations for the third reauthorization of a medical device user fee program.

February 2, 2012 — Aria Health, the largest healthcare provider in Northeast Philadelphia and Bucks County, is the first on the East Coast to utilize Epoch, the latest generation of the Stereotaxis Magnetic Navigation System.

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