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St. Jude Medical, Inc., a global medical device company, announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has classified its voluntary medical device advisory letter to physicians from Nov. 28, 2011, regarding the performance of...

First and Only System in the United States Approved to Treat Patients with Persistent and Long-Standing Persistent Atrial Fibrillation AtriCure, Inc., a medical device company and a leader in cardiac surgical ablation systems and systems for...

Cameron Health, Inc. announced that the 1,000th patient was recently implanted with the S-ICD® System, the world’s only completely subcutaneous implantable defibrillator. The 1,000th patient was implanted by Lara Dabiri Abkenari, M.D., in...

Medtronic, Inc. announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) Circulatory Systems Devices Advisory Panel determined that the overall clinical benefits of Medtronic cardiac resynchronization therapy with implantable cardioverter...

CardioMEMS announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's (FDA) Circulatory Systems Devices advisory panel voted against the Champion Heart Failure Monitoring System, the first wireless, permanently implantable device that allows...

First large-scale pacemaker study to show significant reduction in hospitalizations for atrial arrhythmias and related stroke with BIOTRONIK Home Monitoring® BIOTRONIK announced the publication of the COMPAS clinical trial results in the...

First-of-its-Kind International Exam Targets Physicians who are not eligible to Obtain U.S. Based Electrophysiology Certification from the American Board of Internal Medicine The International Board of Heart Rhythm Examiners (IBHRE) launched...

Estech, a leader in minimally invasive cardiac surgery, announced that the first three patients have been enrolled in the HISTORIC-AF European multi-center staged hybrid ablation clinical study. Ten centers will participate in the study,...

Heart Force Medical Inc., a Vancouver-based company that has developed a non-invasive cardiac assessment, monitoring and screening device, is pleased to announce that Dr. Jonathan Steinberg, M.D., F.A.C.C. has agreed to join the Company's...

BIOTRONIK announced the publication of “Detection of atrial high-rate events by continuous Home Monitoring: clinical significance in the heart failure-cardiac resynchronization therapy population” in Europace by Dr. Nesan Shanmugam et al.(1)...