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.

December 7, 2007 - Edwards Lifesciences Corp. today has entered into a definitive agreement to sell certain assets related to the Edwards LifeStent peripheral vascular product line to C.R. Bard Inc. for up to $140 million. The transaction is expected to close in January 2008, pending regulatory approvals.

December 7, 2007 — GE Healthcare has licensed a technique patented by an Eastern Virginia Medical School (EVMS) obstetrician that can automate the acquisition of ultrasound images used by physicians to diagnose fetal heart defects.

GE has licensed the software for exclusive use in its 3D/4D ultrasound systems. Alfred Abuhamad, M.D., chairman of obstetrics and gynecology at EVMS developed the automation protocol, called Sonography based Volume Computer Aided Diagnosis (SonoVCAD).

December 7, 2007 - Cardinal Health and HemCon Medical Technologies Inc. this week announced the availability of co-labeled chitosan-based hemorrhage control dressings to acute care professionals as part of an exclusive, four-year distribution agreement.

Cardinal Health now offers various sizes of the HemCon Bandage and ChitoFlex dressings to first responders and medical professionals in emergency rooms, trauma care, and cardiac catheterization labs.

December 7, 2007 – The Siemens “Win an MRI" contest has closed and the polls are now open to award a MAGNETOM Essenza MRI system to rural and community hospitals, with fewer than 180 beds who do not have fixed MRI services.
The prize, a MAGNETOM Essenza, was introduced to the market in October 2007 and was developed specifically for the small hospital market, and expected to help physicians deliver improved imaging services in neurology, orthopedics, body imaging, angiography, cardiology, breast imaging, oncology and pediatric imaging.

December 6, 2007 - The first commercial implant of the Mitroflow Aortic Pericardial Heart Valve in the U.S. was performed by the Cardiovascular Surgery Division at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN, announced The Sorin Group.

Designed to provide high hemodynamic performance and ease of implant, the Mitroflow valve received FDA approval in October 2007 and is now available to cardiac surgeons and their patients in the U.S.

December 6, 2007 – Patients treated with a rotablator drill less risk of perforation than those treated with the excimer laser face, according to an article in the Journal of Interventional Cardiology, researchers from the University of California , Davis Medical Center review state-of-the-art treatment for vessel punctures.

Catheters outfitted with balloons, lasers and miniature drills have made the treatment of blocked arteries virtually routine. Now physicians are using the same technology used to open clogged arteries to repair ruptures and perforations with less risk.

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