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Calculator Quantifies Financial and Environmental Impact of Reprocessing Medical Devices Ascent, a division of Stryker Corporation, continues its commitment to supporting quality healthcare delivery with the introduction of a new tool that...

"AFib in America: State Impact Reports" Illustrate the Disconnect Between AFib's Impact and the Public Health Resources Available Despite the high costs and heavy demand for health services associated with atrial fibrillation (AFib), a...

World’s First Temperature-Sensing Saline Irrigated Ablation Catheter Enables Lesion Control, is Designed to Improve Patient Outcomes Advanced Cardiac Therapeutics, Inc., a developer of innovative temperature-sensing cardiac ablation systems,...

The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia Study Shows Feasibility of Screening for Risk of Sudden Cardiac Arrest A pilot study in healthy children and adolescents shows that it is feasible to screen for undiagnosed heart conditions that...

BIOTRONIK SE Co. & KG, a leading manufacturer of cardiac devices, has announced that its innovative new ablation catheter, AlCath Flux eXtra Gold, is now available throughout Europe after receiving CE mark and successfully completing the...

Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (BIPI), announced that Pradaxa® (dabigatran etexilate mesylate) capsules has received preferred Tier 2 formulary status with CVS Caremark (Commercial Preferred Drug List) and Medco (Commercial...

The Mount Sinai Medical Center has become the first hospital in the United States to perform a cardiac catheterization procedure using the TactiCath force-sensing ablation catheter for the treatment of symptomatic paroxysmal atrial...

In light of the recent tragic deaths of 17-year-old Wes Leonard in Michigan and 16-year-old Matthew Hammerdorfer in Colorado, the SADS (Sudden Arrhythmia Death Syndromes) Foundation strongly recommends that automated external defibrillators...

CHICAGO – Information concerning funding and author conflicts of interest disclosed in the original reports of randomized controlled trials is rarely disclosed when these data are combined in meta-analyses, according to an article in the...