An expanded patient group in the PARTNER heart valve study suggests a trend towards enhanced survival, reduced symptoms and stroke risk.
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GE Scanner Gains Fully Positive Recommendation From UK’s NICE.
GE Healthcare’s Discovery CT750 HD scanner has been included in the first ever fully positive recommendation from the UK’s National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE)’s Diagnostic Assessment Programme, opening the door for increasing use of the technology in Coronary Artery disease assessment.
Would You Want To See Real-Time Data from Your Implantable Pacemaker?
Access to one’s own real-time heart function data. Might it frighten us to death?
UK’s NICE Approves New-Generation CT Scanners
Safety, cost-effectiveness and quality are the key parameters that lie behind NICE’s approval of four new-generation cardiac computed tomography (CT) scanners for use by the NHS in Coronary Artery Disease patients.
Biotronik Completes Testing To Validate Its Home Monitoring® System
Biotronik has put its technology to the test in January at an independently held “connectathon”. The results validate the company’s claims and represent a step towards home monitoring of key clinical parameters which is integrated with patients’ electronic health records.
300 Stent Staff To Go At Abbott
Abbott Laboratories has announced that it will lay off 700 employees as part of ongoing restructuring efforts, 300 of the redundancies coming from the company’s Stent Division in Southern California.
Just A Reminder: SJM Riata Is Subject To Alert In UK Too
Details of UK MHRA’s alert relating to St Jude’s Riata defibrillator leads.
CE Mark For “Bi-Directional Retrieval” Inferior Vena Cava Filter
Crux Biomedical has announced it has received CE mark approval for its revolutionary inferior vena cava filter with bi-directional retrieval.
CoreValve US Trial: Extreme Risk Group Enrollment Complete.
Medtronic gets a little closer to market (in USA) with the announcement that CoreValve’s extreme risk group enrollment is now complete.
Sparks Fly At Riata Lead Summit
A sizeable group of clinicians and St Jude representatives have met to discuss the issue of “externalised” Riata implantable defibrillator leads.
J&J Loses Current Round In Drug Eluting Stent Patent Lawsuit With Medtronic, Abbott and Boston Scientific
You say sirolimus, I say everolimus… judge says lets call the whole thing off.
Gore® TAG® First Device FDA Cleared For Endovascular Repair Of Traumatic Aortic Transections
Two years after receiving its “equivalent” CE mark approval, W L Gore has now announced an extension of the indications for use of its Conformable Gore TAG endoprosthesis to include traumatic aortic transections.
“Which Medical Device?” Announces Winners
Which Medical Device (whichmedicaldevice.com) has announced the winners of its “Device of the Year” awards, based on assessment of reader feedback by the expert judging panel.
BIOTRONIK Commits To Asia Pacific With New Offices in Singapore
In common with other medical device manufacturers, BIOTRONIK clearly sees the growth opportunity in the Far East, announcing the opening of a new regional headquarters in Singapore.
Cardica Stapler Problems In Thicker Tissue: EU Clinical Trial Suspended
Californian Stapler Company Cardica has suspended enrollment in its European clinical trial of the MicroCutter XPRESS 30 due to a small subset of deployments where the XPRESS 30 did not perform satisfactorily in thicker tissue.
FDA Clearance For da Vinci Vessel Sealer: CE Mark Next?
Intuitive Surgical, Inc. has announced that it received FDA clearance to market its EndoWrist® One™ Vessel Sealer instrument for use with the da Vinci® Si™ Surgical System.