St. Jude Medical has launched its Unify Quadra cardiac resynchronization therapy defibrillator (CRT-D) and Quartet left ventricular quadripolar pacing lead. It features four electrodes spaced over 4.7 cm, enabling up to 10 pacing configurations for better cardiac rhythm management.

January 26, 2012 — Heart Hospital of Austin opened a heart valve clinic, the first of its kind in the region. The clinic gives new hope to patients with severe aortic stenosis who were previously considered inoperable, offering a multidisciplinary approach to evaluating such cases.

January 26, 2012 — The RhinoChill IntraNasal cooling system has been nominated for one of the European medical device industry’s most prestigious awards.

January 26, 2012 — Amorcyte LLC, a NeoStem company, announced the enrollment of the first patient in the Amorcyte PreSERVE Phase II trial for acute myocardial infarction. The study is a multicenter, randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled clinical trial to evaluate the safety and efficacy of infarct-related artery infusion of AMR-001, an autologous bone marrow derived cell therapy enriched for CD34+ cells.

January 25, 2012 — CJPS Medical Systems announced that VitalPoint, its remote patient monitor, can be used with Microsoft Windows-based tablet PCs. This announcement comes on the heels of CJPS being the first company to waive all connectivity fees to caregivers accessing their patients' data remotely using home monitors.

January 25, 2012 — Which Medical Device announced the winner of its Device of the Year Award 2011 in the cardiology category.

January 25, 2012 — CardioFocus, Inc. developer of the HeartLight Endoscopic Ablation System (EAS) for the treatment of atrial fibrillation (AF) announced that a new study in the Journal of Cardiovascular Electrophysiology demonstrated the high acute and chronic success rates achievable with a single AF ablation procedure using HeartLight EAS.

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