GE Healthcare announced Signa Premier, a new wide bore 3.0T magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) system, is now available for sale in the United States. Signa Premier is the result of a four-year collaboration with the National Football League (NFL) and research institutions around the world working to design new imaging tools, particularly to aid researchers in the detection of biomarkers for the potential diagnosis of mild traumatic brain injury (TBI). GE said the system delivers a new level of clinical performance with additional research-focused capabilities, especially for neurology and oncology research.

Cancer patients at Moffitt Cancer Center in Tampa, Fla., now have access to advanced diagnostic imaging for fast and safe exams with the facility’s Infinix-i 4-D computed tomography (CT) system from Toshiba Medical, a Canon Group company. Moffitt, one of the nation’s leading cancer hospitals, is the first healthcare provider in the state of Florida to use the system’s merging of the Infinix-i angiography system and Aquilion Prime CT system for interventional radiology (IR) and oncology procedures. The system may help clinicians improve visualization and workflow and increase patient safety. A ribbon-cutting ceremony was held on July 25 to mark the occasion.

Carestream will showcase its Carestream Touch Prime and Touch Prime XE Ultrasound Systems at the Society for Vascular Ultrasound conference that begins on Aug. 3. These systems are currently available in the United States and Canada.

August 3, 2017 — The Asian Pacific Society of Cardiology (ASPC) held its first-ever late-breaking clinical trials session at its Annual Congress, July 13-15 in Singapore, highlighted by the ASIAN-HF Registry. The registry was one of six late-breaking clinical trials and 250 abstracts at the meeting attended by over 2,000 delegates from 45 countries.  

August 3, 2017 — A study to reduce the strongest inherited risk factor for heart attack and stroke is now underway at Baylor College of Medicine and other sites across the country and Canada.  

Heart specialists at Baylor say the protein lipoprotein(a), known as Lp(a), has been shown to not only be associated with a higher risk of cardiovascular issues but also to be the cause.

Abbott recently announced the first patient has been enrolled in a clinical study evaluating the short-term use of common blood thinning medicines, called dual antiplatelet therapy (DAPT), after receiving a Xience everolimus-eluting coronary stent.

Merge Hemo cath lab hemodynamics monitoring system.

The current generation of hemodynamic monitoring systems can help catheterization labs electronically document the course of an intervention for the procedure report, follow-up care and administrative processes. However, healthcare IT is moving increasingly toward seamless electronic data integration across the enterprise. For this reason, buyers of these systems need to make sure they can play nice and share their data across multiple layers of IT and with various vendors’ software. 

Aug. 3, 2017 — 4C Medical Technologies Inc. minimally invasive therapies for structural heart disease said its transcatheter therapy for mitral regurgitation (MR) was featured in the Innovation Summit at Cardiovascular Innovations (CVI) 2017 held Aug. 2, 2017 in Denver, Colo.

Aug. 2, 2017 — A new health economic analysis from the landmark FIRE and ICE Trial was published this week in the Journal of the American Heart Association. The data show that treating paroxysmal atrial fibrillation (AF) with cryoballoon catheter ablation may result in substantial cost savings as compared to radiofrequency (RF) ablation.

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