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New study shows significant increase in quality of life (QoL) among overweight patients following ablation of atrial fibrillation (AF), compared to patients with a lower body mass index (BMI) where no substantial improvement was observed. ...

Cloud computing and web-based electronic health records have the potential to capture far richer medical data than traditional EHR systems currently used at major healthcare centers. This is according to executives from the La Jolla, CA-based...

St. Jude Medical, Inc., a global medical device company, announced it has received U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval of its Unify Quadra® cardiac resynchronization therapy defibrillator (CRT-D) and Quartet® Left Ventricular...

Boston Scientific Corporation announces FDA approval of its INCEPTA™, ENERGEN™ and PUNCTUA™ cardiac resynchronization therapy defibrillators (CRT-Ds) and implantable cardioverter defibrillators (ICDs) to treat heart failure and sudden cardiac...

Bristol-Myers Squibb Company and Pfizer Inc. announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has accepted for review a New Drug Application (NDA) for ELIQUIS® (apixaban), an investigational compound for the prevention of stroke and...

Today Dr. Zaki Masud, Kaleida Health in Buffalo, NY, announced its first implant of the AngelMed Guardian cardiac monitor and alert system. The system is designed to reduce the time it takes patients to get to the emergency room during an...

BIOTRONIK, a leading manufacturer of innovative medical technology, announced the first implantations of the new Lumax 740 implantable cardiac defibrillators — the world’s first and only ICDs eligible for use with magnetic resonance imaging....

Perminova, developer of web-based software for the nation’s leading cardiology centers, announced the release of the 2.0 version of Perminova EP. Perminova EP is the electrophysiology module of Perminova Cardio, a web-based software system...

AtriCure, Inc., a medical device company and a leader in cardiac surgical ablation systems and systems for the exclusion of the left atrial appendage, announced that it has closed enrollment in its DEEP AF feasibility trial. DEEP AF was...

Defibtech will demonstrate its new Lifeline PRO automated external defibrillator (AED) at Medica 2011, Nov. 16-19, in Dusseldorf, Germany. The Lifeline PRO provides professional responders with full manual control over shock energy and shock...