January 21, 2008 – The FDA cleared St. Jude Medical Inc.’s EnSite Fusion Registration Module, a software designed to help physicians create detailed heart models to facilitate the diagnosis and delivery of therapy for complex abnormal atrial heart rhythms, including Atrial Fibrillation (AF).

January 16, 2008 - Waits for emergency care are getting longer each year, according to a study published online this week by the journal Health Affairs.

The study, which analyzed the time between a patient’s arrival in the emergency department (ED) and when they were first seen by a doctor, found that the increasing delays affected everyone, including those with and without health insurance, and people from all racial and ethnic groups.

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 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 - 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.