Booz Allen Hamilton  and Kaggle announced that the second annual Data Science Bowl will call on the global data science community to create a set of steps, or algorithms, to help transform diagnosis of heart disease. Through a partnership with the National Institutes of Health (NIH), participants in the 90-day competition will be given magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) images and asked to develop an algorithm to automate the measurements that are key indicators of heart disease.

January 4, 2016 — In a comparison of bleeding complications and mortality between transradial and transfemoral stent placement following a heart attack, researchers from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania found those at risk for more bleeding were often treated with the riskier transfemoral approach. – a demonstration of the so-called risk-treatment paradox. The findings, from the largest study of its kind, were detailed in the Dec.

January 4, 2016 — Living with pulmonary arterial hypertension (PH) is challenging, but the chore of treating the rare heart disease may change following promising clinical trial data published in the Dec. 24 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine.

December 31, 2015 — The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Circulatory System Devices Panel of the Medical Devices Advisory Committee will meet in February to discuss and gather public recommendations on clinical trial, post-approval study design and physician training requirements for leadless cardiac pacemaker device technology.  The meeting will take place Thursday, Feb. 18, 2016, from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. at the Hilton Washington DC North/Gaithersburg, Salons A, B, C, and D, 620 Perry Pkwy., Gaithersburg, MD,  20877.

December 31, 2015 - The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has cleared Biotronik's Astron Peripheral Self-Expanding Nitinol Stent System. The device is indicated for improving luminal diameter in patients with iliac atherosclerotic lesions in vessel reference diameters between 4.3 and 9.5 mm and lesion lengths up to 105 mm. 

Hitachi Aloka Medical America is proud to partner with AccreditCoach to provide customers assistance with accreditation and add value to their ultrasound purchase. 

December 29, 2015 — Heart attack patients who had previously undergone coronary artery bypass graft surgery were less likely than other heart attack patients, including those with prior angioplasty, to be treated within the 90-minute recommended “door-to-balloon time,” according to a study published today in the JACC: Cardiovascular Interventions. Door-to-balloon time refers to the time from a patient’s arrival at the hospital to treatment to resto

December 29, 2015 — The Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) applauded the U.S. House and Senate for passing critical cybersecurity information sharing legislation as part of the FY2016 omnibus spending package.

December 29, 2015 — BioVentrix in mid-December announced the successful completion of the 30th clinical case using the closed-chest Revivent-TC Ventricular Enhancement System for heart failure (HF). The hybrid procedure was performed by Prof. Petr Neuzil (interventional cardiologist) and Dr. Ivo Skalsky (cardiothoracic surgeon) on a 38-year-old female patient at the Na Holmoce Hospital in Prague, Czech Republic.   

December 29, 2015 — The American College of Cardiology (ACC) launched the new Left Atrial Appendage Occlusion (LAAO) Registry Dec. 16. It will to capture data on a new class of medical devices used in left atrial appendage (LAA) occlusion procedures.

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