August 15, 2007 - InspireMD announced today receipt of orders for its MGuard Coronary stents from key markets in Western Europe and Latin America, after results from clinical trials in Germany showed a procedural success rate of 100 percent.

August 15, 2007 - Merit Medical Systems Inc., a leading manufacturer and marketer of proprietary disposable devices used primarily in cardiology and radiology procedures, announced today that it has acquired the exclusive distribution rights for microcatheters from GMA Co., Ltd. with the rights over all North American, South American and European markets, as well as Middle Eastern and Asian markets.

August 14, 2007 — ProSolv CardioVascular, a FUJIFILM company, announced today that it is the newest MedAxiom corporate partner, a resource for cardiology practices with a network of 250 plus cardiology groups representing over 5500 physicians, in a deal that will make ProSolv CardioVascular the first cardiovascular image and information system (CVIIS) company to join the MedAxiom group.

August 15, 2007 — ProSolv CardioVascular, a FUJIFILM company, announced that it is the newest MedAxiom Corporate Partner.

August 14, 2007 – GlobalMedTek recently announced a revision of its Version 1.0 for its Medical Software Directory Database, providing free software in specialty, application and technology categories and giving access to over 500 vendors in an excess of 2,000 programs.

August 14, 2007 - Baseline serum complement component C4 is among independent predictors of stroke in patients with known or suspected coronary artery disease.

August 14, 2007 - High-speed dual-source computed tomography (DSCT) angiography was 95 percent sensitive and 95 percent specific in detecting significant coronary lesion, on a segment-by-segment analysis, according to the report published in the August 21 issue of the Journal of the American College of Cardiology.

August 14, 2007 - ELA Medical Inc., a Sorin Group company that specializes in the design and manufacture of implantable pacemakers and defibrillators, announced the first U.S. implant in NATURE, an observational study that will enroll 1,440 patients in North America and Europe to observe the evolution of atrio-ventricular conduction disorders in pacemaker patients over a 2-year time period.

August 13, 2007 – A study published in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology showed that when AngioJet thrombectomy is used to remove large thrombus before placement of a drug-eluting stent (DES), it is associated with significantly lower rates of subsequent death, repeat heart attack and stent thrombosis.

Aug 13, 2007 - Medtronic Inc. has entered into a definitive agreement with Biophan Technologies Inc. to acquire its MRI safety patents in a transaction worth $11 million in cash, as part of Medtronic’s strategy to develop solutions for the contraindication between pacemakers and MRI machines.

Under the terms of the agreement, Biophan will transfer to Medtronic its MRI safety patent portfolio, which includes technologies that make medical devices, such as pacemakers, safe for use with MRI.

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