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J&J pulls CoStar DES from the market

There was bad news for Johnson & Johnson recently as its newly-acquired business entity, Conor M...[more]

Stem cell trials gather pace in US

Australia's adult stem cell company, Mesoblast Limited, has announced that the FDA has cleared t...[more]

CLOSURE I PFO/Stroke trial gains conditional approval

NMT Medical announced that it has received conditional approval from the FDA to its revised stud...[more]

FDA clearance for first-generation robotic platform for catheter mapping procedures

Hansen Medical, Inc. has obtained FDA clearance for commercialisation of the Sensei Robotic Cath...[more]

Sorin and Mayo Clinic sign aortic heart-valve implant research agreement

Sorin Group and Mayo Clinic have signed a three-year agreement to collaborate in research effort...[more]

Abiomed announces Australian regulatory approval of Impella Circulatory Support Technologies

Abiomed has announced regulatory approval in Australia for three of its Impella products. The Au...[more]

IDEV Technologies – devoted to next-generation medical devices for endovascular interventional use

IDEV Technologies (IDEV), based in Houston, Texas, was founded in July 2000 and is a company foc...[more]

MOMIJI trial begins in Japan

Medtronic has announced the start of its MOMIJI (Miracle-ICD Outcome Measured In Japanese Indica...[more]

Enrolment completed in Impella pilot clinical trial

Abiomed has completed enrolment of 20 patients in its pilot clinical trial of the Impella 2.5 Ci...[more]

PROCEED trial gains IDE approval

TransMedics, an emerging medical technology company developing advanced solutions for better, mo...[more]

CAP granted for HeartMate II pivotal trial

The FDA has approved an IDE (Investigational Device Exemption) supplement that allows enrolment ...[more]

First patients receive DX-88 during on-pump cardiothoracic surgery

Dyax, a company focused on advancing novel biotherapeutics for unmet medical needs, has begun pa...[more]

Toshiba's CorE 64 multi-centre Study

Toshiba America Medical Systems, Inc. today announced the completion of enrollment for 400 patie...[more]

Edwards sues CoreValve

Edwards Lifesciences’ subsidiary, Edwards Lifesciences PVT, has filed a patent infringement laws...[more]

Cardiac Science’s settlement of patent litigation with Philips

Cardiac Science recently announced the settlement of its long-standing patent litigation with Ph...[more]

QuantRx Biomedical acquires majority interest in FluoroPharma

QuantRx Biomedical Corporation, an emerging leader in the development and commercialisation of m...[more]

SurModics and St Jude Medical extend

SurModics has expanded its corporate technology agreement with St Jude Medical. (NYSE: STJ ). Un...[more]

CyberHeart to examine CyberKnife Technology for non-invasive cardiac ablation

Accuray has entered into an agreement with CyberHeart Incorporated under which CyberHeart will u...[more]

Biosite receives ‘superior’ offer from Inverness

Biosite Incorporated has received a revised binding offer from Inverness Medical Innovations, to...[more]

Heartscape Technologies announces close of series B funding

Leading UK venture capital firm Scottish Equity Partners (SEP) has led a US$17 million investmen...[more]

Naviscan PET Systems seals US$15 million financing

Naviscan PET Systems, a privately held company specialising in the development of high-resolutio...[more]

Coherex Medical gains US$8.5 million in financing

Coherex Medical, a privately-held medical device company dedicated to the development of safe an...[more]

CircuLite nets US$5 million in latest round of funding

CircuLite Inc., a medical device company focused on the development of a proprietary circulatory...[more]

FDA approvals Spiroflex VG Catheter

Possis Medical’s AngioJet Spiroflex VG rapid exchange catheter has been approved by the FDA for ...[more]

Ascent Healthcare receives 510(k) clearance to reprocess Acuson AcuNav ultrasound catheter

Ascent Healthcare Solutions has announced that the FDA has increased the number of times that As...[more]

European approval for Partnered Irrigated Ablation Catheter

Stereotaxis has received the CE mark for its Partnered Magnetic Irrigated Ablation Catheter and ...[more]

Japanese launch for Boston Scientific’s Taxus Express2 coronary stent system

Boston Scientific has launched its Taxus Express2 paclitaxel-eluting coronary stent system in Ja...[more]