November 14, 2007 - The European peripheral stents market is in the developmental phase, both in terms of revenue and technology due to improved diagnosis of peripheral arterial disease (PAD), according to a study released by Frost & Sullivan.

November 14, 2007 - MIV Therapeutics Inc. announces that the Drugs Controller General of India (DCGI), the governmental agency with regulatory authority over medical products, has approved two of the Company's bare metal stents for manufacture and sale in India.

November 14, 2007 – More than 120 sites in 29 countries and more than 5,000 patients are now enrolled in OrbusNeich’s e-HEALING clinical study, a monitored multi-center, worldwide – not including the United States - prospective registry of patients treated with the Genous Bio-engineered R stent.

November 13, 2007 – A medical study led earlier this year by Matthew Budoff, M.D., associate professor of Medicine at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, concludes that Electron Beam Tomography (EBT) heart scan technology is an independent predictor of all-cause mortality after controlling for age, gender, ethnicity and cardiac risk factors.

November 14, 2007 - According to Cardica Inc., a provider of automated anastomosis systems for coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) surgery, a study found that 24 of 25 grafts of internal mammary arteries connected to left anterior descending (LAD) arteries were patent after the specified follow-up period as determined by 64-slice multidetector computed tomography.

November 14, 2007 - The Heart Center at Nationwide Children’s Hospital performed the first procedure in the first hybrid congenital cardiac operating suite in the U.S., a facility designed specifically around the cardiac surgeon, offering new advanced access and imaging in an operating room environment.

Vital Images' Vitrea software produces 2D, 3D and 4D images of human anatomy from CT (computed tomography) and MR (magnetic resonance) image data. The system addresses specialists’ needs through various software options for cardiac, colon, vessel probe and other applications. Vitrea 4.0 reportedly utilizes an intuitive clinical workflow and automatic settings to improve speed and simplicity.

Ziehm Vision FD, Ziehm Imaging’s latest suite of fully digital radiology products, is said to incorporate cutting-edge technology and state-of-the-art design to offer fully digital imaging with distortion-free images. Because the flat panel detector is insensitive to magnetic fields, it can work where strong magnetic fields are present, such as near a MRI site, thus eliminating distorted images that normally result on image intensifier systems.

November 13, 2007 - Bayer HealthCare Pharmaceuticals Inc., a leader in diagnostic imaging, has been awarded a three-year contract renewal by HealthTrust Purchasing Group, LP (HealthTrust), to make Magnevist (gadopentetate dimeglumine) Injection, a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) contrast agent, for members of the HealthTrust network.

November 13, 2007 - Cardiogenesis Corp., a leading developer of surgical products for transmyocardial revascularization (TMR), announced that the FDA has granted marketing approval for its PEARL (Port Enabled Angina Relief using Laser) 5.0 Robotic Delivery System, allowing TMR treatment to be performed entirely endoscopically.

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