December 12, 2007 - Representatives Carolyn McCarthy (D-NY) Joseph Pitts (R-PA) and Gene Green (D-TX) were joined by more than 65 of their colleagues in urging Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi to reject any additional cuts to Medicare medical imaging services.

December 11, 2007 - ValveXchange, developer of a next-generation replacement heart valve technology, won the third annual Faegre & Benson Venture Showcase Award at the BioWest 2007 Conference & Expo in Denver.
The Venture Showcase Award was provided by the Faegre & Benson law firm and announced at the Colorado Bioscience Association (CBSA) Awards Luncheon.

December 11, 2007 – Due to the loss of more than 50 percent of the North American Mo-99 supply and its impact on the ability of physicians to perform diagnostic cardiac nuclear medicine studies that depend on a reliable daily supply of isotope Technetium (Tc-99m), The American College of Radiology is investigating how it may be of service to radiologists and other nuclear medicine providers.

December 11, 2007 - The FDA issued its final assessment of two long-term studies in patients with severe gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) who were being treated with either Prilosec or Nexium, and finds that “long-term use of these drugs is not likely to be associated with increased risk of heart problems.”

December 11, 2007 - GE’s SnapShot Pulse technology for prospectively gated diagnostic cardiac CT exams has been proven to reduce a patient’s radiation exposure by up to 83 percent and improve image quality, validated from clinicians performing thousands of exams at sites around the world.

December 11, 2007 ― GE partnered with anesthesiologists, emergency medicine physicians and other fields of medicine to design new editions of its LOGIQ e compact and a new edition of the LOGIQ Book XP Enhanced compact, as part of its 2008 ultrasound releases introduced today.

December, 10, 2007 - Cardica Inc. today announced that leading cardiac surgeons from The Heart Hospital Baylor Plano and Centennial Medical Center in Nashville will webcast a live off-pump coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) procedure as well as a port-access robotic CABG procedure using innovative anastomotic devices from Cardica Inc. on Jan. 17, 2008.

December 10, 2007 - U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Michael Leavitt urged Congress Dec. 4 to include a requirement for doctors to use electronic health records as part of any proposed Medicare physician payment bill.

In a letter sent to Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-MT) and ranking member Chuck Grassley (R-IA) Tuesday, Secretary Leavitt laid out the administration's demand that any Medicare legislation this year include a requirement that doctors adopt health IT.

December 10, 2007 – Ymed Inc. announced that it has successfully completed its first U.S. cases with its proprietary VascuTraK PTA Dilatation Catheter, a unique 5F compatible, single operator rapid exchange system.
YMed's VascuTraK II catheter is designed and indicated for vascular intervention of a wide range of peripheral arteries including the treatment of obstructive lesions of native or synthetic arteriovenous dialysis fistulae.

December 10, 2007 - Cardica Inc. announced that leading cardiac surgeons from The Heart Hospital Baylor Plano and Centennial Medical Center in Nashville, TN would Web cast a live off-pump coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) procedure on Thursday, Jan. 17, 2008 at 3:00 p.m. EST.

The approximately 75-minute live Web cast will be available at http://www.OR-Live.com. A replay will be available for 180 days following the live presentation.

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