February 4, 2011 – A new mobile radiology application cleared today by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) will allow physicians to view and make a diagnosis from medical images on the Apple iPhone and iPad.

February 4, 2011 – Researchers at the National Institutes of Health's (NIH) Undiagnosed Diseases Program (UDP) have identified the genetic cause of a rare and debilitating vascular disorder not previously explained in the medical literature.

February 3, 2011 – Widespread screening or routine ultrasound for blocked neck arteries to determine stroke risk isn't necessary, according to new guidelines from the American Heart Association/American Stroke Association, American College of Cardiology and other groups.

February 3, 2011 – Behrman Capital, a private equity investment firm based in New York and San Francisco, has acquired Atherotech, a cardiometabolic testing services provider. Atherotech offers the VAP (Vertical Auto Profile) advanced lipid profile test.

February 1, 2011 – The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved a Phase I clinical trial to test a new technology for treating critical limb ischemia (CLI). The Investigational Device Exemption (IDE) allows Arteriocyte to test its Magellan MAR01 technology.

February 1, 2011 – Despite the benefits of therapy with implantable cardioverter-defibrillators (ICDs), inappropriate shocks from the devices are common and place patients at a greater mortality risk. These were the conclusions drawn by a Dutch research team that examined the incidence, predictors and patient outcomes of inappropriate ICD shocks in a large, real-world patient population.

January 31, 2011 – Volcano Corp. said today the Superior Court of Massachusetts issued a decision ruling in favor of Volcano and its subsidiary Axsun Technologies Inc., and against LightLab Imaging Inc., on all of LightLab's remaining claims for intravascular optical coherence tomography (OCT) trade secret misappropriation.

February 1, 2011 – A self-anchoring aortic heart valve has received the CE mark. With the approval, the Perceval S Sutureless biological valve, by the Sorin Group, is now commercially available in Europe.

January 31, 2011 – Parental history of heart disease nearly doubles a person’s risk in all regions of the world, even after considering all other known risk factors of heart disease. The results come from a study published in the Feb. 1, 2011, issue of the Journal of the American College of Cardiology.

January 31, 2011 – The first successful transcatheter implantation of a 27 mm transapical aortic valve prosthesis has been completed. The procedure was performed by Hendrik Treede, M.D., at the University Heart Center Hamburg using JenaValve’s transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) system.

It was part of the company’s ongoing pivotal CE mark trial

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