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St. Jude Medical, Inc., a global medical device company, announced that it has received U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval of two new irrigated ablation catheters — the Safire BLU™ Bi-directional Irrigated Ablation Catheter and...

Surgical infections associated with pacemakers and defibrillators led to 3-fold increases in hospital stay, 55–118% higher hospitalization costs, 8- to 11-fold increase in mortality rates, and double the mortality after 1 year compared to...

Two new retrospective subanalyses of the RE-LY® trial, involving Pradaxa® (dabigatran etexilate mesylate) capsules, suggested that the reduction in stroke risk achieved with PRADAXA 150mg over warfarin (1) occurred irrespective of...

BIOTRONIK SE & Co. KG, a leading manufacturer of cardiac devices, announced that the last chronic heart failure (HF) patient was enrolled in IN-TIME at the Schwabing Clinic in Munich, Germany, with principle investigator Professor Stefan...

The Canadian Cardiovascular Society and Canadian Heart Rhythm Society have produced the first-ever comprehensive guidelines on the use of genetic testing in the clinical management of inherited heart rhythm disorders, released in the...

Reducing cardiovascular risk factors like high blood pressure, smoking, diabetes and being overweight could potentially reduce more than half of all cases of atrial fibrillation, according to research reported in Circulation: Journal of the...

Parent Heart Watch (PHW), the national voice solely dedicated to protecting youth from Sudden Cardiac Arrest (SCA) and preventable Sudden Cardiac Death (SCD), released an informational video today. The video focuses on the importance of...

CRT Innovation is the First to Offer Exclusive OptiVol® Fluid Status Monitoring with Complete Remote Follow‐Up for Proactive Heart Failure Management Medtronic, Inc. announced that the U.S Food & Drug Administration (FDA) has approved...

New Device is Designed to Improve Survival Rates from Heart Attack in High-Risk Heart Patients At Jersey Shore University Medical Center, 66-year-old heart attack survivor Charles Theodora from Ocean Township became the first NY/NJ...

Seemingly every year there are reports of a young, apparently healthy athlete dying on the court or playing field. The sudden death of Wes Leonard, a junior at Fennville High School, who died of cardiac arrest from an enlarged heart on March...