The Thinklabs Digital Stethoscope offers a small, AAA battery-powered amplifer installed in fork of the ear piece tubing.

Toshiba Teli America Inc. introduced the T24MSA001-MD medical-grade 24-inch LCD color widescreen monitor with full HD (1,080-pixils) resolution for a natural reproduction of video images and the highest level of differentiation during such applications as diagnostic analysis, video endoscopy and surgery.

April 23, 2008 – BayScribe has launched the BayScribe Virtual Appliance, which the company says is the first virtual reporting solution to help healthcare facilities in their virtualization process in an effort to consolidate numerous servers.

April 22, 2008 - Heart attack patients receive faster and more comprehensive care if they arrive at the emergency room during the day, according to a review of more than 62,000 cases in the journal Circulation.

Patients arriving during off-hours had to wait longer for treatment to unblock arteries or for bypass surgery to reroute damaged vessels than those arriving during regular hours, the researchers found. Still, speed didn't always translate into better survival.

April 22, 2008 - A new type of medication based on raising high-density lipoproteins (HDL), can lead to an improvement in the aortic valve narrowing, reported study results published on-line in the British Journal of Pharmacology.

April 22, 2008 - The cardiac pacemakers market is expected to reach $3.7 billion by 2010, according to the report "Cardiac Pacemakers: A Global Strategic Business Report," published by Global Industry Analysts Inc.

Developing world, China and India with vast population base are primary markets for cardiac rhythm management products. Asia-Pacific is expected to witness the fastest growth both in terms of dollar and unit sales over the 2000-2010 period. Single-chamber pacemakers market in the region is projected to reach $95 million by 2010.

April 22, 2008 - Balancing evidence-based medicine and point-of-care testing for improved supervision efficiency and patient satisfaction, with time constraints, complex care networks and complicated trial findings hinder success will be discussed at "Managing CVD," a seminar for internists, to be held on May 14, 2008, at the Renaissance Grand Ballroom North in Washington, DC.

April 22, 2008 - The Sorin Group received the Japanese Pharmaceutical and Medical Devices Agency's (PMDA) approval to market its Stockert S5 Heart-Lung Machine in Japan, an important milestone for a company trying to gain market leadership in heart-lung machines in Japan and consolidate a leading worldwide market share.

The Stockert S5 is the fifth-generation of heart-lung machine has a smaller footprint for the S5 to allow closer positioning of the unit to the patient, designed to reduce line lengths and the possibility of hemodilution.

April 22, 2008 - A dose of 80 mg of Lipitor (atorvastatin calcium) reduced the risk of heart attack and stroke by 32 percent in patients who have heart disease and chronic kidney disease compared with patients taking the 10 mg dose of Lipitor, according to a five-year Treating to New Targets (TNT) study, published in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology.

April 22, 2008 - Beating heart coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) saved $1,684 per procedure, which were performed using the C-Port Distal Anastomosis Systems, compared with the cost of traditional on-pump CABG surgery.

Cardica Inc. and Genesis Medical Center reported results from a six-month economic analysis comparing the cost of off-pump, beating heart CABG procedures. The $1,684 per procedure savings included the cost of the C-Port systems in the beating heart cases, compared to traditional bypass surgery.

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