May 7, 2007 — Signalife Inc. has announced that it has submitted its Fidelity 200 Cardiac Event Recorder 510K pre-market notification to the FDA. Upon clearance the recorder will be sold over-the-counter.

Utilizing its proprietary signal processing technology and amplification process, Signalife says the exceptional signal clarity of the device will allow it to become a new standard in cardiac event recording.

May 7, 2007 — Hansen Medical Inc. has announced it has obtained FDA clearance for commercialization of the Sensei Robotic Catheter System and Artisan Control Catheter to facilitate manipulation, positioning and control of mapping catheters during electrophysiology (EP) procedures.

May 7, 2007 — Steven E. Nissen, M.D., chairman of the Department of Cardiovascular Medicine at Cleveland Clinic, and immediate past president of the American College of Cardiology, has been named one of the 100 Most Influential People by Time magazine. He will be featured among other "Scientists and Thinkers."

May 7, 2007 — Ortho-Clinical Diagnostics Inc. has initiated a voluntary, nationwide recall of two lots of a diagnostic test used by physicians to aid in the diagnosis of injury to heart muscle and/or heart attack because of shifts in test results that could contribute to a missed diagnosis of myocardial infarction.

May 3, 2007 — According to a Dow Jones News Service article published by Star Tribune, Minneapolis St. Paul, Boston Scientific Corp. is reviewing its portfolio and will consider selling parts that aren't considered strategic, long-term contributors — so stated the company's chief operating officer Wednesday.

May 3, 2007 — Next Thursday, May 10, in Denver, CO, more than 25 leading heart advocacy groups will announce the formation of the Sudden Cardiac Arrest (SCA) Coalition, dedicated to advancing increased research, awareness and educational efforts to address the nation’s No. 1 cardiovascular killer.

May 2, 2007 — Responding to AHA data that estimates 79 million American adults (one in three) have one or more types of cardiovascular disease, Siemens Medical Solutions has announced availability of a new cardiology image management and reporting solution, syngo Dynamics version 6.

May 2, 2007 — Reuters Health reports that scientists have proved that smoking during pregnancy can have lasting detrimental effects on the developing heart. In a study conducted at the Center for Perinatal Biology, Loma Linda University, CA, researchers found that adult offspring of laboratory rats who were exposed to nicotine prenatally showed clear signs of heart dysfunction.

"Our study shows that prenatal...nicotine has significant impact on cardiac function of adult offspring," Dr. Lubo Zhang told Reuters Health.


As in most partnerships, rarely are all things equal. Such is the case with hybrid PET/CT systems, where the vast majority of the improvements have benefited the CT side of the scanner, in particular with increased CT imaging speeds, according to Medhat M. Osman, M.D., Ph.D., at the School of Medicine at St. Louis University. This has left the medical community anxiously awaiting more substantial changes to the PET side of the PET/CT scanner.

Accuray Inc., a manufacturer of radiosurgery devices, has announced it has entered into an agreement with CyberHeart Inc. under which CyberHeart will use Accuray’s technology to develop a noninvasive method for performing cardiac ablation, which may eventually have applications in the treatment of atrial fibrillation.

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