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Trials to assess: bifurcated stent systems

Two new trials are assessing two separate stent systems when treating bifurcated lesions. Devax ...[more]

Enrolment completed in 21-French ReValving System

CoreValve has completed minimal enrolment in a clinical trial involving its second-generation Co...[more]

US research team develops small-diameter artificial arteries

Researchers in the US have developed a new way to synthesize a small-diameter bypass graft from ...[more]

Covalon receives patent for drug-eluting tissue coverings for vascular wraps and wound dressings

Covalon Technologies Ltd, a developer of advanced medical products which has patented therapeuti...[more]

US tax reforms to promote investment in technologies

Recent legislation in the United States, entitled the “US Healthcare Technologies Competitivenes...[more]

Bioengineered blood vessels grown for CABG procedures

US researchers have created blood vessels using vascular cells taken from patients with cardiova...[more]

Dynatek Laboratories completes in vitro testing for vascular stents

Dynatek Laboratories, a leader in accelerated in vitro testing of cardiovascular devices, has re...[more]

British researchers to develop DLC stents

A research team from Brunel University, UK, is seeking to develop stents from collagen implants ...[more]

Russian team develops polymeric stent coating

A group of Russian researchers has tested the characteristics of a new polymeric coating for vas...[more]

Device to improve chest closure after cardiac surgery

Researchers at The Johns Hopkins University have invented a less intrusive and potentially safer...[more]

Cardiak Ltd

Heart failure is the single biggest cause of hospital admissions in the western world. It is est...[more]

US government to fund

Myo-Vad cardiac support systemBiophan Technologies, a developer of next-generation medical techn...[more]

Researchers consider electrically conductive tissue for the cardiac defects

Investigators at Children’s Hospital Boston have taken the first steps towards engineering elect...[more]

Device to cut the time and cost of developing tissues

Investigators at the University of Missouri-Columbia have developed a machine that will cut down...[more]

Vasomedical faces Nasdaq delisting

Vasomedical has received a Nasdaq Staff Determination indicating that the company has failed to ...[more]

Cardium successful in Boston Scientific/Arch Development patent litigation

The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit has ruled in Cardium Therapeutics’ favour in a c...[more]

Bioheart and Tricardia sign patent licensing agreement

Bioheart, a developer of cell therapies for heart repair, has signed a patent licensing agreemen...[more]

Biotronik and Novartis agree next-generation DES pact

Biotronik AG, a privately held developer of innovative vascular interventional technologies, has...[more]

Kensey Nash acquires IntraLuminal Therapeutics

Kensey Nash Corporation has acquired substantially all of the assets of IntraLuminal Therapeutic...[more]

Ortec to be awarded European Fibrin Microbead technology patent

Ortec International has been notified by the European Patent and Trademark Office that the claim...[more]

WorldHeart receives non-compliance Nasdaq warning

WorldHeart Corporation had received a notice from the Listing Qualifications Department of The N...[more]

Boston Scientific completes US$1.2 billion offering

Boston Scientific Corporation has completed a public offering of US$1.2 billion aggregate princi...[more]

Cardiac Science granted AED patent

Cardiac Science Corporation has been granted a patent by the United States Patent & Trademark Of...[more]