September 18, 2007 - Forty-one U.S. hospitals have been named 2007 Leapfrog Top Hospitals, based on results from the Leapfrog Hospital Quality and Safety Survey, a rating system that provides an up-to-the-minute assessment of a hospital's quality and safety.

September 18, 2007 - St. Jude Medical Inc. announced FDA approval of its first radiofrequency (RF) wireless devices to treat patients with heart failure and with potentially lethal heart arrhythmias.

September 17, 2007 – GHX announced the winners of the fourth annual Best In Class Awards, recognizing medical/surgical and clinical laboratory manufacturers that have achieved top market position in their respective product and market segment categories for distributed products through the end of 2006.

September 14, 2007 - In the largest study of its kind to date, comparing the CYPHER Sirolimus-eluting Coronary Stent and the Taxus Stent to bare-metal stents, researchers found that the mortality risks associated with drug-eluting stents and bare-metal stents are similarly low.

September 14, 2007 - Boston Scientific Corp. released data reflecting experience from the first 15,000 patients monitored wirelessly on the LATITUDE Patient Management System, a device that detects clinical events between scheduled follow-up visits and then sends the clinical event data directly to physicians, enabling clinicians to observe these events sooner.

September 14, 2007 - For many years, American Heart Association research has supported education and training programs for Emergency Cardiovascular Care (ECC) that save thousands of lives each year, and now healthcare providers have easier access to these programs using the eLearning program.

September 13, 2007 - Therapeutic hypothermia is still considered experimental by many, but doctors for Buffalo Bills' football reserve tight end Kevin Everett say it was one factor which may have reduced the severity of his injuries.

September 13, 2007 - The Edwards Lifesciences Corp., a supplier of products and technologies to treat advanced cardiovascular disease, today announced it will donate $5 million to The Henry Samueli School of Engineering at the University of California, Irvine, CA, to establish The Edwards Lifesciences Center for Advanced Cardiovascular Technology, supporting the new center’s objective of researc

September 13, 2007 - Medical device maker Somanetics Corp. announced that The Society of Thoracic Surgeons (STS) has added cerebral oximetry as a metric to be collected as part of the STS Adult Cardiac Surgery Database effective January 1, 2008, to provide evidence-based that improves patient outcomes.

September 13, 2007 - Numa, a nuclear medicine connectivity company, introduced NumaStore Lite Image Management Solution for nuclear cardiology, PET and today’s multimodality images, at the American Society of Nuclear Cardiology, Sept. 6 to Sept. 9, in San Diego, CA.

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