January 15, 2008 - Surgeons and electrophysiologists who used AtriCure's endoscopic bipolar ablation system to treat atrial fibrillation (AF) said the procedure was successful in 82 percent of patients that presented with paroxysmal AF and 56 percent of patients that presented with persistent and long-standing persistent AF in a report published in the Journal of Interventional Cardiac Electrophysiology.

January 15, 2008 - For Dearborn County Hospital in southeast IN, efficient yet responsive medical care depends on effective communication among doctors, staff, patients and patient families, and that will be aided with the deployment of the IP-based HiPath unified communications platform from Siemens Communications.

January 14, 2008 - Drug-eluting stents in patients undergoing coronary artery revascularization procedures relieve obstructive coronary artery disease, provide durable mechanical results and do more good than harm, according to a study published in the Annals of Internal Medicine.

January 14, 2008 - Scientists from the University of Minnesota Center for Cardiovascular Repair created a beating heart in the laboratory, according to research published in the online January 13 issue of Nature Medicine.

January 14, 2008 - Medtronic Inc. launched the AneuRx AAAdvantage Stent Graft on the new Xcelerant Hydro Delivery System, expanding its product line in endovascular therapies for aortic aneurysms.

Medtronic Inc. offers the AneuRx AAAdvantage Stent Graft on the new Xcelerant Hydro Delivery System, expanding its product line in endovascular therapies for aortic aneurysms.

January 11, 2008 - American Heart Association (AHA) President Daniel W. Jones, M.D. today urged Congress to pass legislation such as increased federal funding for research, passage of the Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act and passage of the HEART for Woman Act, to help Americans control their risk factors for cardiovascular diseases.

January 11, 2008 - Imaging technologies are helping heart modellers overcome the dilemma of proving that the models really are an accurate representation of the real human heart, as demonstrated in a workshop held recently by the European Science Foundation (ESF).

Computerized in-silico models simulate the real heart and enable possible drugs and therapies to be tested without risk to people.
However, in order to create a realistic model, you need accurate and extensive data from real hearts for calibration.

January 11, 2008 – Siemens Medical Solutions changed the name of its healthcare division to Siemens Healthcare, as part of a global restructuring of the Erlangen company, taking effect this month.

Announced in November, the name change will cover the Imaging and IT, Workflow and Solutions, including cardiology, oncology, urology, surgery and women’s health and Diagnostic divisions.

January 11, 2008 - The American Medical Association (AMA) released the American Medical Association Guide to Preventing and Treating Heart Disease: Essential Information You and Your Family Need to Know about Having a Healthy Heart, offering tools and information on the prevention and treatment of heart disease.

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