January 25, 2008 - The winner of the Siemens online video 'Win an MRI' contest is Lockport Memorial Hospital in Lockport, NY, winning a brand new Magnetom Essenza for their staff-produced video that demonstrated the complications and inconveniences posed to patients and physicians when a hospital lacks an in-house MRI.

AngioDynamics recently launched Centros, a self-centering, tunneled hemodialysis access catheter.

Centros, designed by Stephen R. Ash, M.D., FACP, is a self-centering, tunneled hemodialysis access catheter that has a curved configuration that allows it to be placed in the superior vena cava in a centered position, without touching the vein walls. Rather than being placed in the atrium, the tip of the catheter is placed in the lower third of the superior vena cava.

January 24, 2008 – “Unadjusted mortality…was significantly lower for drug-eluting stents than bare-metal stents in unapproved indications,” noted Donald S.

January 22, 3008 - Cardica Inc. and Intuitive Surgical Inc. will host an evening symposium, demonstrating how surgeons can automate the attachment of blood vessel grafts during coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) procedures, replacing traditional hand-sewn sutures.

January 22, 2008 - Avista Capital Partners, which recently acquired the Bristol-Myers Squibb Medical Imaging medical imaging business unit, reported today that the FDA has granted pediatric exclusivity for studies conducted on Cardiolite, effective Jan. 8, 2008, extending the marketing exclusivity of Cardiolite for an additional six months beyond patent expiration on Jan. 29, 2008.

Cardiolite is a kit for the preparation of Technetium Tc99m Sestamibi for Injection.

January 22, 2008 - Researchers at the Universite de Montreal have run the largest mathematical simulation of a heart, a two billion element model, enabling discoveries of the electrical triggers of the various kinds of heart disease that could lead to earlier diagnosis and new treatments.

January 22, 2008 - Abiomed Inc. received FDA Humanitarian Device Exemption (HDE) supplement approval on system upgrades for its AbioCor Implantable Replacement Heart (AbioCor), intended to replace the severely damaged native heart for patients who are not eligible for a transplant and have no other treatment alternative.

January 23, 2008 - American healthcare can be greatly improved by embracing “openness” throughout the healthcare arena is the principle finding of a new report, Harnessing Openness to Transform American Health Care, released by the Digital Connections Council (DCC) of the Committee for Economic Development (CED).


Just when you got excited about CT angiography (CTA) noninvasively diagnosing coronary artery disease, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) decided to slash reimbursement for CTA.

January 22, 2008 – The FDA cleared by Cheetah Medical Inc.'s Reliant portable cardiac output monitor, designed to provide a noninvasive window to cardiac and hemodynamic function.

The Reliant monitor is powered by Cheetah's unique, patented BIOREACTANCE Technology, which has been used effectively in over 1,000 patients in various clinical settings including hemodynamic monitoring, heart failure, perioperative care, hemodialysis and stress testing.

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