August 22, 2007 - Medtronic, Inc. announced it has been informed by the FDA that an Advisory Panel will review the Premarket Approval (PMA) application for the Endeavor Drug Eluting Coronary Stent in October 2007.

The FDA will announce the date and the complete agenda four to six weeks prior to the meeting in accordance with their normal communications regarding public panel meetings. Medtronic's PMA submission includes safety and efficacy data on more than 4,100 patients who have been treated with Endeavor in clinical trials that include follow up for as long as four years.

August 22, 2007 - LUMEDX Corp., a provider of fully integrated cardiovascular information systems, recently introduced the Cardiac Transplant solution, a cardiology software that automates donor/recipient record keeping for heart transplant centers, reportedly helping to streamline and simplify the process of collecting and managing adult cardiac transplant patient data from first consultation through evaluation, activation, transplant and post-transplant follow-up visits.

August 21, 2007 - Research conducted at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas and appearing in the August 21, 2007 issue of the Journal of the American College of Cardiology (JACC) suggests that an increase of several inches to the waistline markedly increases the risk of unhealthy plaque build-up in the arteries of the heart and the rest of the body.

August 21, 2007 - University of Arkansas researchers have discovered a simple, inexpensive way to create a nanowire coating on the surface of biocompatible titanium that can be used to create more effective surfaces for vascular stenting, as well as hip replacement and dental reconstruction.

August 21, 2007 - Vital Images announced it has released its next-generation enterprise-wide advanced visualization and analysis product solutions with the release of Vitrea 4.0 and ViTALConnect 4.1.

August 21, 2007 - Only half of adult women have had their cholesterol tested in the past year, according to the results of a nationwide survey.

The survey, conducted by the Society for Women's Health Research, a Washington, D.C.-based advocacy organization, found that 79 percent of women know how much they weighed in high school but less than one-third know their current cholesterol number. And of the women who had a recent cholesterol test, only 57 percent could actually recall their cholesterol number.

August 21, 2007 - Omicia Inc., a privately held company specializing in personalized genetic signatures for early detection of disease risk, has been awarded its fourth NIH grant, a $182,732 Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) Phase I grant from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute of the National Institutes of Health, aiming to identify genes whose variants increase the risk of developing cardiovascular disease.

This industry/academia collaboration is between Omicia and Johns Hopkins University (JHU).

August 21, 2007 - Researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have developed a new energy storage device that could reportedly be mistaken for a simple sheet of black paper, geared toward meeting the trickiest design and energy requirements of tomorrow's implantable medical equipment.

August 21, 2007 - Defibtech LLC, a designer and manufacturer of automated external defibrillators (AEDs), announced today that the company has shipped more than 50,000 of its DDU-100 Series AEDs marketed under the brand names of Lifeline and ReviveR.

Defibtech AEDs were reportedly selected by the 2006 Winter Olympic Games in Torino, Italy and have been the AEDs of choice for statewide deployment programs in Arkansas, Florida, Idaho, Louisiana, Maine, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, Utah and elsewhere.


Ice packs and cold compresses have been used for centuries to reduce swelling and fevers. But it’s only been within the last five years that clinicians have witnessed the dramatic results — especially in patients who have suffered a cardiac arrest — that can be achieved through induced hypothermia.
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