February 14, 2008 - At age 20, Vanessa Cirillo suffered a heart attack caused by a virus. She recovered and lived a healthy life until June 2007, when her heart condition became critical. Her heart had enlarged several times its normal size (cardiomyopathy). It was no longer pumping enough blood to sustain her body. She needed a heart transplant but no donor heart was available. To save her life, she was flown from a Las Vegas hospital to University Medical Center (UMC) in Tucson, AZ.

February 13, 2008 - Orqis Medical Corp’s MOMENTUM Trial Abstract was accepted for a late breaking clinical trial presentation at the upcoming American College of Cardiology (ACC) meeting, in which it will report on the hemodynamic and clinical effects of the percutaneous Cancion System in managing patients hospitalized with heart failure.

February 12, 2008 - Boston Scientific Corp. reported that a U.S. District Court jury in Marshall, TX, has reached a verdict in favor of Bruce Saffran, M.D., over a patent infringement on drug-eluting stents, a decision which Boston Scientific plans to appeal.

The jury found that the Company's TAXUS Express and TAXUS Liberte drug-eluting stent products infringe Dr. Saffran's patent and that the patent is valid. No injunction was requested, but the jury awarded damages of $431 million.

February 12, 2008 - The Dictaphone Healthcare Solutions division of Nuance is now offering the Revolabs xTag Wireless Microphone alongside its Dragon NaturallySpeaking Medical speech recognition software solution.