June 21, 2007 - CardioChek PA with new risk detection helps physicians quickly and easily test for cardiac risk factors due to high cholesterol.

CardioChek PA is a diagnostic analyzer for medical professional testing of cholesterol and is FDA cleared for use on patients of all ages. The easy-to-use device provides medical professionals with a cost-effective, simple way to track important health factors in the convenience of their own office, with one fingerstick.

August 15, 2007 – MedSolutions, a radiology management services provider, introduced at AHIP 2007 Outcomes-Focused Cardiac Imaging, its cardiac imaging management product designed for managing diagnostic cardiac imaging, promoting the delivery of appropriate tests through qualified providers and reducing costs.

June 20, 2007 — Sono-Tek Corporation recently announced the release of the MediCoat PSI.

The MediCoat PSI offers the same cutting-edge precision stent coating features as the well established MediCoat DES systems used for coating cardiac stents. The new PSI model is ideal for coating large peripheral stents, and it is capable of coating, in one cycle, multiple stents up to a cumulative length of 8 inches.

MediCoat PSI incorporates Sono-Tek's proven MicroMist ultrasonic atomizing nozzle, and provides stent motion that assures complete coverage of large vascular stents.

June 20, 2007 - eCardio Diagnostics, which delivers devices, services and solutions for cardiac arrhythmia diagnosis, announced it has received the 2007 North America Frost & Sullivan Customer Service Leadership Award for superior customer service in the U.S. ambulatory cardiac monitoring products and diagnostic services’ market.

June 20, 2007 —Robotic surgical technology available at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center avoids long-term use of blood thinners and problems such as infection by repairing the mitral valve instead of replacing it.

Cedars-Sinai is the largest mitral valve repair center in the Los Angeles area, completing approximately 100 repairs of different types annually.

June 19, 2007 - CryoCath Technologies Inc., a cryotherapy products company that treats cardiac arrhythmias, today announced an agreement to sell their surgical portfolio to ATS Medical in a $22 million cash transaction, to enable CryoCath to focus on its line of electrophysiology products for treating atrial fibrillation and other arrhythmias, and to augment ATS’s current cardiac surgery portfol

June 19, 2007 – According to a study presented at the 18th Annual Scientific Sessions of the American Society of Echocardiography (ASE), screening vascular ultrasound (SVU) is effective in identifying patients with cardiovascular disease before they show symptoms.

June 19, 2007 - Stress echocardiography, a heart ultrasound performed during stress testing, is a more accurate method for identifying women at highest risk for coronary artery disease (CAD) than traditional stress testing and clinical risk factors, according to a report released at the 18th Annual Scientific Sessions of the American Society of Echocardiography (ASE).

Because women often do not show the classic symptoms of heart attack, such as sweating, chest pain or shooting arm pain, it is more difficult to identify when they have blockages in arteries.

June 19, 2007 - A study published today in Circulation shows that the use of NT-proBNP (N-terminal proB-type natriuretic peptide), a biomarker by Roche Diagnostics for suspected heart failure (HF), reduced emergency department (ED) visits by 21 percent.

June 19, 20207 - An international clinical trial will test a unique pacemaker, the Medtronic EnRhythm MRI SureScan pacing system, for use in Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) systems under specified scanning conditions.

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