Jan. 19, 2007 — The University of Pennsylvania Health System and Life Line Screening, the nation's largest provider of mobile preventive health screenings, are collaborating to identify and recruit patients with Peripheral Arterial Disease (P.A.D.) for a pilot study on the causes and prevention of this common yet under-treated vascular disease.

Jan. 18, 2007 - GE and Abbott have entered into a definitive agreement for GE to acquire Abbott's primary in vitro diagnostics businesses and Abbott Point-of-Care diagnostics business (formerly known as i-STAT) for $8.13 billion in cash. Abbott's Molecular Diagnostics and Diabetes Care businesses are not part of the transaction and will remain part of Abbott.

Jan. 15, 2007 — Boston Scientific Corp. has announced the international launch and first implantation of the PROMUS everolimus-eluting stent, making Boston Scientific the only company to offer two distinct drug-eluting stent (DES) platforms.

Jan. 15, 2007 — Medtronic, Inc. announced today its launch of a national campaign designed to raise awareness of sudden cardiac arrest (SCA), its risk factors, and the role of implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD) therapy in saving lives. SCA is the one of the nation's leading causes of death -- claiming more lives than breast cancer, lung cancer, and HIV/AIDS combined.

Jan. 12, 2007 — The FDA has cleared St. Jude Medical’s Reflexion Spiral Variable Radius Mapping Catheter and a faster, smaller EnSite System workstation computer.

The products are being debuted today and Saturday at the Boston Atrial Fibrillation Symposium a meeting of leading electrophysiologists in the field of arrhythmia and atrial fibrillation (AF) management from around the world.

Jan. 11, 2007 — Fujifilm has announced its acquisition of cardiology PACS vendor ProSolv in Indianapolis. The company will now be known as ProSolv CardioVascular, a Fujifilm Company, and will operate as a wholly owned subsidiary, according to a press statement.

Jan. 12, 2007 — Medtronic Inc. has released the newest version of the Medtronic Paceart System, "Get Connected," designed to ensure easy electronic access to key implantable device data wherever it's needed. The new edition expands support for diskless SessionSync data transfer between the Medtronic CareLink Programmer (Model 2090) and Paceart, as well as data transfer between Paceart and electronic health record or practice management systems via industry-standard HL7(R) [Health Level Seven(R)] protocols.

Jan. 11, 2007 — AngioScore’s flagship product, the AngioSculpt Scoring Balloon Catheter, has received FDA Premarket Approval (PMA) for use in the treatment of hemodynamically significant coronary artery stenosis, including in-stent restenosis and complex type C lesions, for the purpose of improving myocardial perfusion.

Jan. 11, 2007 — The Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions (SCAI) today released a clinical alert advising physicians on practical steps for reducing the risk of a rare but serious complication associated with the use of drug-eluting stents. The document follows hearings held by the FDA’s Circulatory Systems Device Panel regarding the use of these devices.

Jan. 11, 2007 — First patients have been now been treated with the recently approved SurgiFrost XL, a new minimally invasive surgical probe for treating cardiac arrhythmias. CryoCath Technologies Inc. received FDA 510(k) clearance late in 2006, and the device also received CE mark approval during this same time period.

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