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Carnegie Hill Radiology Expands Clinical Capabilities with Toshiba’s Aquilion PRIME CT Patients with irregular heartbeats (arrhythmia) are difficult to image with CT. Addressing this challenge, Carnegie Hill Radiology in New York installed...

Monash Medical Centre First in Country to Use New Technology CardioFocus, Inc., developer of the HeartLight® Endoscopic Ablation System (EAS) for the treatment of atrial fibrillation (AF), announces that its technology is now available in...

CHICAGO – A study that compared the incidence of myocardial infarction (MI, heart attack), stroke and heart failure in patients with hypertension who were newly prescribed two β (beta)-blocker drugs suggests there were no significant...

Newly Revised European Society of Cardiology Guidelines Include LAA Closure Devices European regulators have approved an expanded indication for the Boston Scientific Corporation WATCHMAN® Left Atrial Appendage (LAA) Closure Device. The new...

Medtronic, Inc. announced that its Arctic Front Advance™ Cardiac Cryoballoon has received both U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval and CE (Conformite Europeenne) Mark for the treatment of paroxysmal atrial fibrillation (PAF)....

BIOTRONIK, a leading manufacturer of innovative medical technology, is highlighting its broad, innovative and MRI (magnetic resonance imaging) approved implantable heart failure devices at the European Society of Cardiology congress, August...

ZOLL Medical Corporation, a manufacturer of medical devices and related software solutions, announced it has entered into an agreement to license Inovise Medical, Inc.’s ambulatory AUDICOR® technology as part of the advanced patient...

Catheter Robotics, Inc. is pleased to announce 510(k) clearance of Amigo™ by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Catheter Robotics will enter the U.S. market with right-sided diagnostic approval with the Blazer® DX 20 catheter...

New Devices Automatically Adapt to Patient Needs and Continuously Optimize CRT, Improving Response Rate to Lifesaving Therapy Medtronic, Inc. announced it has received CE (Conformité Européenne) Mark of its Viva®/Brava® portfolio of cardiac...

National Survey Shows that Cardiac Device Infections Will Have a Significant Financial Impact Now That Medicare Will No Longer Reimburse Medicare’s decision to stop reimbursing hospitals for the treatment of potentially avoidable surgical...