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AMSTERDAM and ORLANDO, Florida, March 10, 2018 /PRNewswire/ — Royal Philips (NYSE: PHG, AEX: PHIA), a global leader in health technology, today announced health economic results from the DEFINE FLAIR clinical trial comparing cost-effectiveness between instant wave-free ratio (iFR) and fractional flow reserve (FFR) in the guidance of treatment of ischemic heart […]
ORLANDO, Fla., March 10, 2018 /PRNewswire/ — The Janssen Pharmaceutical Companies of Johnson & Johnson today announced late-breaking results of a new home-based clinical trial showing that a wearable continuous electrocardiogram (ECG) monitoring patch can identify people with asymptomatic atrial fibrillation (AFib) earlier and more efficiently than routine care. One-year findings from […]
Presented at ACC.18, Five-Year Follow-up from the CoreValve Extreme Risk and NOTION Studies Show Sustained Valve Function and Durability Over Time DUBLIN and ORLANDO – March 10, 2018 – Medtronic plc (NYSE: MDT) today unveiled outcomes from the CoreValve U.S. Pivotal Extreme Risk Study and the real-world NOTION trial (Nordic Aortic […]
CHELMSFORD, Mass., March 10, 2018 /PRNewswire/ — ZOLL® Medical Corporation, an Asahi Kasei Group Company that manufactures medical devices and related software solutions, announced today the results from the “Vest Prevention of Early Sudden Death Trial (VEST).” The study demonstrated that use of the LifeVest® wearable cardioverter defibrillator(WCD) reduced total mortality by 36 percent in the first […]
MARLBOROUGH, Mass., March 12, 2018 /PRNewswire/ — Boston Scientific Corporation (NYSE: BSX) today announced key data presentations that will be featured at the annual congress of the European Heart Rhythm Association (EHRA) in Barcelona, Spain, on March 18-20. Notably, there will be three late-breaking clinical trials which include the following: Outcomes from TRUE-HD, a large registry […]
NORTH BILLERICA, Mass.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Lantheus Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ: LNTH), the parent company of Lantheus Medical Imaging, Inc. (“LMI”), a global leader in the development, manufacture and commercialization of innovative diagnostic imaging agents, today announced positive new data from a Phase 2 study of LMI 1195, a fluorine-18 (F18) labeled tracer for […]
TUSTIN, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–From accurate, precise planning to successful implementation of aortic and mitral valve replacements and post-operative evaluation, Canon Medical Systems USA, Inc. delivers a complete suite of imaging solutions for structural heart interventions. Features such as the Volumetric Scan Mode on the Aquilion™ ONE / GENESIS Edition, which enables the heart […]
BOSTON – Danvers-based Abiomed, Inc. has agreed to pay $3.1 million to resolve allegations that it violated the False Claims Act by purchasing lavish meals for physicians in order to induce them to use Abiomed’s Impella line of heart pumps. The United States contends that Abiomed sought to induce physicians to use its pumps, which cost more than $20,000 each, by buying meals for […]
REDWOOD CITY, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–SentreHEART, Inc., the manufacturer of the LARIAT® Suture Delivery Device (LARIAT) will be participating in the American College of Cardiology (ACC) 2018 meeting being held in Orlando, Florida, March 10-12, 2018. The meeting’s agenda includes several sessions dedicated to exploring device-based options for Left Atrial Appendage (LAA) […]
LOOMINGTON, Ind.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Today, Cook Medical announced Dan Kaiser as the leader of global research and development (R&D). This dedicated engineering team will connect product development more closely to customer needs and accelerate the process of getting new products to market. “Our R&D team has been reorganized under a global structure […]
