July 22, 2008 - Osmetech today said it received FDA 510(k) clearance for its eSensor Warfarin Sensitivity Test to be used as an aid in the identification of patients at risk for increased sensitivity to the widely used blood-thinning drug, warfarin.

The company also said the FDA clearance includes its second-generation eSensor XT-8 molecular diagnostics platform.

July 21, 2008 – The Premier healthcare alliance today became the first group purchasing organization (GPO) to endorse the GS1 supply chain standards, which will be required through Premier contracts with medical device manufacturers.

July 18, 2008 - A Federal lawsuit filed in Birmingham, Alabama July 18 charges pharmaceutical company Actavis Totowa with manufacturing and distributing defective Digitek heart drug pills that allegedly contained dangerous doses of the drug’s active ingredient, digoxin, causing life-threatening adverse drug reactions.

July 17, 2008 - A new study reveals that, with dual-source computed tomography (DSCT), the effective dosage for a heart examination can be significantly lowered, in comparison to conventional CT.

The study also demonstrated that stenoses can be diagnosed with similar high accuracy as with invasive X-ray angiography.

July 17, 2008 – A new study reveals that, with dual-source computed tomography (DSCT), the dosage for a heart examination can be significantly lowered, in comparison to conventional computed tomography.

July 17, 2008 - Heart sounds provide valuable diagnostic information concerning the heart valves and hemodynamics of heart, but the poor sensitivity of human ears in the low frequency range makes this task difficult, so two researchers have created a computer-aided phonocardiogram (PCG) to analyze a digitized recordings of heart sounds.

July 17, 2008 - Omnicell Inc. and St. Patrick Hospital and Health Sciences Center in Missoula, MT, today said they installed an interface between the hospital’s Omnicell OptiFlex CL bar code inventory tracking system and its Philips Series IV physiomonitoring and information system.


Clinicians spend a lot of time walking around hospitals looking for equipment, other staff members, and sometimes even their patients.

July 17, 2008 - MIV Therapeutics Inc. today said its Protea ultra-thin cobalt-alloy bare metal stent has excelled in animal studies, reportedly showing the Protea is statistically superior to one of the best and most deliverable cobalt-alloy bare metal stents on the market.

July 16, 2008 - Earlier this week, the FDA released a notification that the X-rays used during a CT examination may cause some implanted and external electronic medical devices to malfunction.

The devices include cardiac pacemakers, defibrillators, neurostimulators, external drug infusion pumps, cochlear implants and retinal implants.

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