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Donation is largest in Scripps Health's history When Conrad Prebys was a young boy growing up in Indiana he stepped on a rusty belt buckle, which resulted in a life-threatening cardiac infection that forced him to remain bedridden for a...

TYRX, Inc., the leader in the commercialization of implantable medical devices designed to help reduce surgical-site infections associated with implantable pacemakers and defibrillators, announced that it has successfully implanted its...

Biosense Webster, Inc., a worldwide leader in the diagnosis and treatment of cardiac arrhythmias, announced the enrollment of the first patient in their latest groundbreaking clinical trial, the SMART-AF Investigational Device Exemption (IDE)...

ZOLL Medical Corporation, a manufacturer of medical devices and related software solutions, announced that it has granted exclusive rights to Asahi Kasei Corporation, Tokyo, to import and distribute the ZOLL AED Plus® in Japan through its...

A new method for scoring the severity of illness for patients after cardiac arrest may help to predict their outcomes, according to researchers at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. Most importantly, their findings, published in...

Results from a case control study show that coronary artery disease affecting the atrial branches is an independent predictor for new-onset atrial fibrillation (AF) after acute myocardial infarction (MI), or heart attack. The study,...

Endosense and GE Healthcare have entered into a joint development agreement to integrate the contact-force data provided by Endosense into GE’s CardioLab electrophysiology recording and Innova imaging platforms. By combining their...

CHICAGO – Adhering to a healthy lifestyle, including not smoking, exercising regularly, having a low body weight and eating a healthy diet, appears to lower the risk of sudden cardiac death in women, according to a study in the July 6 issue...

CardioFocus, Inc., developer of the HeartLight™ Endoscopic Ablation System (EAS) for the treatment of atrial fibrillation (AF), announced that its technology was featured in a live case and scientific abstract presented at the European Heart...