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ChanRx, a firm developing medicines for cardiovascular diseases, announced that it will be presenting the results of its Phase IIb study of vanoxerine (GBR-12909), a drug under study for the treatment of atrial fibrillation, at the American...

DALLAS, Nov. 11, 2013 — A promising technology may enable doctors to diagnose and possibly treat in utero a common cause of stillbirth and sudden death in infants, according to research published in the American Heart Association journal...

Topera, Inc., a medical device company that has developed a novel mapping and targeting system for the identification of the sources that sustain complex cardiac arrhythmias, announced that it has received 510(k) clearance by the U.S. Food...

LIA Software Proven to Detect Lead Failures More Frequently than Impedance Alone on Riata, Durata and Endotak Leads Medtronic, Inc. announced FDA approval of its Lead Integrity Alert (LIA) software for use with non-Medtronic leads....

HeartSine Technologies is pleased to announce the arrival of its enhanced samaritan® Public Access Defibrillator (PAD) Trainer, which offers new features that simplify CPR and AED training. The new samaritan PAD Trainer with remote control...

ZipLine Medical announced that Kaiser Permanente Santa Clara Medical Center has adopted its patented noninvasive Zip™ surgical skin-closure devices for cardiac implant surgery. This is in addition to ZipLine’s adoption by hospitals throughout...

ARCA biopharma, Inc., a biopharmaceutical company developing genetically-targeted therapies for cardiovascular diseases, and Duke University’s Duke Clinical Research Institute (DCRI), the world’s largest academic clinical research...

Unfors RaySafe (formerly Unfors Instruments), the leading international supplier of measurement solutions for quality assurance of X-ray equipment, has launched its new RaySafe X2 Prestige System consisting of a base unit and external sensors...

The first-ever Cardiovascular Health Week kicks off in the European Parliament in Brussels. It will go on until 8 November 2013 with awareness-raising activities around the theme ‘Mind Your Heart – for a Heart Healthy Europe’. The initiative...