January 22, 2009 - Delivering clot-busting drugs with an ultrasound-enhanced delivery system could reduce the amount of drugs needed to break up dangerous blood clots in the legs and pelvis, according to discussions surrounding a live case demonstration at the 21st annual International Symposium on Endovascular Therapy (ISET).

January 22, 2008 - Engineers at Purdue and Stanford universities recently created stretchable electrodes to study how cardiac muscle cells, neurons and other cells react to mechanical stresses from heart attacks, traumatic brain injuries and other diseases.

The devices are made by injecting a liquid alloy made of indium and gallium into thin microchannels between two sheets of a plastic polymer, said Babak Ziaie, a Purdue associate professor of electrical and computer engineering.

Cell cultures are grown on top of the new “stretchable cell culture platform.”

January 22, 2009 - Flexible Stenting Solutions Inc. said this week it received CE Mark for its FlexStent Femoropopliteal Self Expanding Stent System.

Stent sizes include a complete matrix of 5, 6, 7 and 8 mm diameters with 30 through 150 mm lengths in a 6 French delivery system.

January 22, 2009- NewCardio Inc., a cardiac diagnostic and services company, announced its membership in the Cardiac Safety Research Consortium (CSRC), a broad-based collaboration of medical product safety experts from academia, industry and the FDA.

January 21, 2009 - Invatec this week announced the European launch of a new peripheral balloon, the IN.PACT Amphirion paclitaxel-eluting PTA balloon catheter.

January 21, 2009 - Emageon said its been awarded a five-year HeartSuite VERICIS cardiology contract with MultiCare Health System, an integrated health organization made up of four hospitals in the Greater Tacoma, WA area.
Emageon will supply its VERICIS digital PACS and HeartSuite hemodynamics solution for four cath labs, including one in which Emageon's Pediatric Echo IMS product will be installed. The HeartSuite VERICIS solution will enable MultiCare to digitally process its cardiology PACS studies and cath/echo structured reporting for echocardiography.

January 20, 2009 – Emageon has been awarded a five-year HeartSuite VERICIS cardiology contract with MultiCare Health System, an integrated health organization made up of four hospitals in the Greater Tacoma, WA, to create a platform that includes reports or any type of imaging study from cardiology to radiology.

January 20, 2009 - Boston Scientific Corp. today said it was awarded a contract by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) for a full line of the company’s pacemakers and defibrillators.

The one-year contract took effect last month and has annual renewal options for up to four years. It includes Boston Scientific’s newest technologies in both product categories: the ALTRU family of pacemakers and the TELIGEN implantable cardioverter defibrillator.

January 20, 2009 - Preliminary data being presented at the International Symposium on Endovascular Therapy (ISET) 2009 Jan. 18-22, suggests stents can be placed in the brain to treat a stroke as it's occurring.

Used in the neck to prevent strokes, early research suggests that stents can also be used to treat occurring strokes by opening up blocked arteries in the brain, and that stents may work better than clot-busting drugs or removing the clot with a tiny corkscrew-like device or vacuuming it out.

January 19, 2009 – The radial access approach to minimally invasive procedures will mean less bleeding, less down time, lower costs and less risk overall, particularly for obese patients, according to data being presented at the 21st annual International Symposium on Endovascular Therapy (ISET) this week near Miami Beach, FL.

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