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Analyze ST Trial Will Evaluate Safety and Efficacy of ST Segment Monitoring in Fortify ST ICD St. Jude Medical, Inc., a global medical device company, announced that the first patient in a clinical study examining the safety and...

More than 1,000 cardiac arrest deaths over 15 years are connected to the failure of automated external defibrillators (AEDs); battery failure accounted for almost one-quarter of the failures. The study was published online last week in...

AF AWARE Campaign Launches New Tool for Primary Care Physicians The AF AWARE (Atrial Fibrillation Awareness And Risk Education) campaign, at the European Society of Cardiology (ESC) Congress 2011 in Paris, announces the launch of the Atrial...

First Sale in Asia of the Magnetecs Robotic Catheter Guidance Control and Imaging (CGCI) System Magnetecs Corporation, a designer and manufacturer of robotic catheterization control systems for minimally invasive surgical procedures,...

Bristol-Myers Squibb Company and Pfizer Inc. announced the main results of the Phase 3 clinical trial ARISTOTLE, which evaluated ELIQUIS® (apixaban) compared to warfarin for the prevention of stroke or systemic embolism in 18,201 patients...

New data show that, worldwide, one in three patients with atrial fibrillation (AF) who are at high risk for stroke are not being prescribed anticoagulant therapy, particularly vitamin K antagonists (VKA) – medicines known to significantly...

BIOTRONIK, a leading manufacturer of implantable cardiac devices and pioneer of wireless remote monitoring technologies, announced the European market approval of the Selectra left ventricular lead delivery system. Selectra, which represents...

ZOLL Medical Corporation, a manufacturer of medical devices and related software solutions, announced that physicians at all of the 17 “Honor Roll” hospitals and all of the 50 “Best Cardiology and Heart Surgery” hospitals designated by U.S....

First All-in-One Angiographic Imaging System Simplifies Procedures for Interventional Cardiologists and Staff to Improve Patient Care and Reduce Health Care Costs ACIST Medical Systems, Inc. (ACIST), a Bracco Group company, a leader in...

London Heart Hospital Performs First Cases CardioFocus, Inc., developer of the HeartLight™ Endoscopic Ablation System (EAS) for the treatment of atrial fibrillation (AF), announces that the HeartLight EAS is now available in the United...