September 17, 2008 - Syntermed Inc. said this week it debuted the company’s SyncTool, a diagnostic tool for heart failure, on GE Healthcare Xeleris 2 workstation at the American Society of Nuclear Cardiology (ASNC) meeting.

GE Healthcare exclusively licensed the software for new Xeleris workstations in conjunction with Syntermed’s Emory Cardiac Toolbox (ECTb) and is offering it as an upgrade to existing customers. SyncTool, a phase analysis software, analyzes the benefits of cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT) in heart failure patients.

September 17, 2008 - Medtronic Inc. said this week it started two new trials of the Endeavor Resolute drug-eluting stent (DES), the company’s complement to the Endeavor drug-eluting stent, which was approved by the FDA in February.

September 17, 2008 - BioControl Medical said six month data for eight of the more than 30 patients who participated in the overall European pilot study of CardioFit for Congestive Heart Failure was published in the European Journal of Heart Failure, volume 10, issue 9, pages 884–891.

September, 17, 2008 - The American College of Cardiology (ACC) yesterday launched its Quality First campaign that advocates for new standards for quality in healthcare reform, while setting forth initiatives to begin moving the American healthcare system immediately and dramatically forward.

Micrus Endovascular Corp. offers the Neuropath guide catheter line, designed with a highly flexible and visible tip so neurointerventionalists can gain better vessel access and greater vessel selection in treating patients with complex anatomies.

September 16, 2008 – The Heart Failure Society of America’s (HFSA) 12th Annual Scientific Meeting will be held Sept. 21-24, at the Metro Toronto Convention Center, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

September 16, 2008 — Nuance Communications Inc. unveiled its Dragon Medical 10 edition, a real-time medical speech recognition software which recognizes dictation nearly twice as fast as its previous release and yields an accuracy improvement of more than 20 percent over the previous release.

The upgrade offers new medical vocabularies, improved integration with electronic medical record (EMR) systems, enhanced regional accent support, and customizable commands, like Voice Shortcuts and DragonTemplates.

September 16, 2008 - Datascope Corp. said today it has entered into a definitive agreement to be acquired by Getinge AB, a global medical technology company with existing operations in the cardiac and vascular surgery market.

The transaction is subject to customary conditions, including the tender of a majority of the outstanding shares of Datascope common stock into the tender offer, regulatory approvals and the absence of a material adverse change with respect to Datascope.

For more information: www.datascope.com, www.getinge.com

September 15, 2008 - TeraRecon Inc. said its new innovations in endovascular and interventional planning software for its Aquarius iNtuition advanced visualization solution will be showcased at the upcoming CIRSE Congress in Copenhagen, Denmark, Sept. 13-17.

September 15, 2008 – Syntermed unveiled ReconTools, a software package that performs image reconstruction, quality control and correction for degraded image quality in myocardial perfusion SPECT images, at the American Society of Nuclear Cardiology (ASNC) 2008 annual meeting in Boston, Sept. 10-14.

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