October 8, 2007 - Drug-eluting stents were found to be most effective in reducing the need for repeat angioplasty procedures or bypass surgery in angioplasty patients at the ‘highest risk for a renarrowing of the artery around the stent, without significantly increasing the rate of death or risk of heart attack, said a new study by Ontario’s Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences (ICES) and McMaster University’s Program for Assessment of Technologies in Health.

October 8, 2007 - Enova Medical Technologies said today it developed new LED technology for cordless surgical headlights reaching light output levels exceeding 200,000 lux at 14 inches.
The company says this new technology provides light intensity comparable to most 300-watt fiber optic xenon headlight systems that are commonly used by “deep cavity” surgeons, such as cardio, colorectal, neuro, orthopedic, thoracic, and vascular surgeons.

October 8, 2007 - Cincinnati Sub-Zero (CSZ) Products Inc. released its Kool Kit noninvasive, integrated, whole-body hypothermia system in September.

October 5, 2007 – Royal Philips Electronics announced it will acquire U.S.-based Raytel Cardiac Services, a division of Raytel Medical Corp., and other ancillary operations from SHL Telemedicine Ltd., for approximately $110 million in cash, as part of Philips’ strategy enhance its healthcare offerings in cardiology.

October 5, 2007 - InSite One Inc. recently announced the signing of a co-marketing agreement with Technology Imaging Services (TIS), aiming to provide TIS and their clients with a comprehensive tool kit in archiving, storage and data recovery solutions for these specific data sets.

According to the company, InSite One’s InDex Archive currently contains over 1.3 billion individual medical images and records, nearly 20 million studies, for over 500 facilities nationally. On a monthly basis, the InDex Archive reportedly averages 500,000 plus new studies.

October 4, 2007 – Aloka recently announced that the company will unveil three new models of its ProSound Systems, the ProSound alpha 7, the ProSound 3500SX and the ProSound 6, aiming to provide versatile and high performance ultrasound systems in a very compact design, at the 17th World Congress on Ultrasound in Obstetrics and Gynecology, Oct. 7 to Oct. 11, in Florence, Italy.

October 4, 2007 – The acute success rate in patients treated for atrial fibrillation with the Niobe magnetic navigation system by Stereotaxis was 93 percent, announced Xu Chen, M.D., of the Rigshospitalet at the University of Copenhagen who presented the data at the recent European Society of Cardiology Congress (ESC) in Vienna.

October 4, 2007 – The Cleveland Clinic announced Oct. 3 its Top 10 Medical Innovations list, highlighting technologies which will likely have a big impact on healthcare in 2008, including therapies for valvular heart disease, unusually high cholesterol and severe neurologic disorders.
The list of breakthrough devices and therapies was selected by a panel of Cleveland Clinic physicians and scientists and was unveiled during Cleveland Clinic’s 2007 Medical Innovation Summit, which is currently underway.

October 3, 2007 - The American Society of PeriAnesthesia Nurses (ASPAN) today issued a 10-step action plan to address the factors that may lead to inappropriate medication use and potential adverse events for patients.

October 3, 2007 - Crux Biomedical Inc., a medical device firm, announced it recently completed the first implant in the United States of the Crux IVC Filter, as part of its strategy to deliver an inferior vena cava filter (IVC) that better meets physicians’ needs.

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