March 18, 2008 - Abiomed Inc. received conditional approval from the FDA to begin its Impella 2.5 Circulatory Support System study in the U.S. under an investigational device exemption (IDE) for hemodynamically unstable patients undergoing a percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) procedure due to acute myocardial infarction (AMI).

March 13, 2008 – Abbott’s fully bioabsorbable drug-eluting stent for the treatment of coronary artery disease demonstrated no stent thrombosis, no clinically driven target lesion revascularizations and a 3.3 percent rate of major adverse cardiac events (MACE) in 30 patients out to one year, according to data from the ABSORB clinical trial published in The Lancet on March 13, 2008.

March 13, 2008 - Signalife Inc. received the Frost and Sullivan 'Technology Innovation Award for North American Patient Monitoring' for its artifact reducing technology, marking the second time the company has received this award.

Frost and Sullivan gave Signalife the award for its Fidelity heart monitoring systems, which Frost and Sullivan said provides signal clarity in the wireless cardiac monitoring arena.

March 11, 2008 – The FDA cleared an investigational device exemption (IDE) application from Life Recovery Systems to use the ThermoSuit noninvasive cooling system to investigate rapid hypothermia treatment in combination with primary angioplasty to treat heart attacks.

March 11, 2008 - Mindray Medical International Ltd. signed a definitive agreement to acquire Datascope Corp.’s patient monitoring business, reportedly making Mindray the third-largest player in the global patient monitoring device industry.

Datascope’s patient monitoring business earned total revenues of $161.3 million in year 2007. The transaction is expected to be accretive to Mindray’s earnings per share on a non-GAAP basis starting in 2009.

Agfa will showcase the latest offering of its in Cardiology Data Management, IMPAX CV, focusing on the noninvasive cardiologist, working to integrate echocardiography, noninvasive Vascular (NIV), nuclear cardiology and ECG information into a complete Web-based physician reporting system.

LifeScan Inc. launched two new products to help hospitals improve execution of tight glycemic control protocols - the OneTouch TGC Advisor and OneTouch DataLink Wireless V2.

March 14, 2008 - Thirteen of the 18 top-ranked U.S. News and World Report hospitals (72.2 percent) use the noninvasive Arctic Sun device from Medivance for induced hypothermia and re-warming patients.

Medivance said this week 16 of the top 20 heart programs (80 percent) and 16 of the top 20 neurology programs cool and re-warm patients with the automated Arctic Sun device.

March 12, 2008 – The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) today decided not to move forward with its proposed National Coverage Decision (NCD) that would have limited Medicare coverage of computed tomographic angiography (CTA) to only those instances where CTA is used as part of an ongoing clinical study.

Biomedical Systems will be featuring its Data Exchange, a proprietary Internet-based application that has been designed for the acquisition, transfer, review and management of Holter data. The application allows for acquire the digital Holter recording from your facility and transmit to Biomedical Systems� analysis lab, receive completed Holter reports as PDF files within 24 hours of transmitting a recording and allows for Online installation on your existing computer including automatic updates as soon as they are released.

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