As medicine continues its march away from open surgical procedures to minimally invasive and transcatheter treatments, the cath lab has opened up to new treatment areas beyond the coronaries. Peripheral artery disease (PAD) in the legs has traditionally been the territory of vascular surgeons, but there has been a major transition to transcatheter PAD procedures in the past 10 years, blurring the lines between surgeons and interventionalists.

May 18, 2011 - The Society for Imaging Informatics in Medicine (SIIM) announces tools and training to help medical informaticsprofessionals stay competitive in a rapidly changing environment. SIIM will provide fundamental, up-to-date education and solutions essential for imaging informatics professionals (IIPs) and their organizations at the society's 2011 annual meeting, June 2-5, in Washington, D.C./National Harbor, Md.

May 16, 2011 - Cordis announces the launch in Europe of Radial Solutions, a complete portfolio for transradial interventions. New to the portfolio is the Cordis Radialsource Transradial Access Kit. Radialsource Transradial Sheaths are designed to provide physicians with atraumatic and smooth access to the radial artery during diagnostic and interventional procedures.

May 16, 2011— GE Healthcare today received the Price Performance Value Leadership Award in PET (Positron Emission Tomography) for North America 2011 from global research organization Frost & Sullivan.

May 16, 2011 - The German Supreme Court (BGH) declared a structural heart occluder patent case to be invalid. In the ruling by the BGH, the court does not see any basis for AGA/St. Jude's claim that the Occlutech atrial septal defects and patent foramen ovale (ASD and PFO) occluders violate any patent brought forward in the litigation and declares earlier German ruling to the contrary invalid.

May 16, 2011 – In a coronary stent patent lawsuit, a jury said Cordis owes Boston Scientific approximately $19.5 million.

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