All Articles
-
EC-Funded E-Health Study Looks at Progress and Barriers
A new study funded by the European Commission is assessing the progress made to date, towards the realisation of European e-Health Action Plan goals. Good practices and lessons learned constitute the study’s key elements. The results will be fed into policy recommendations for further accelerating e-Health implementation. The study...
READ MORE -
Siemens Demonstrate Intra-Cardiac Echocardiography Catheter
Siemens showed off their ACUSON AcuNav V, the world’s first intra-cardiac echocardiography catheter for volume imaging, at the 2009 Scientific Sessions of the Heart Rhythm Society in Boston, MA, USA. With real-time volumetric information from inside the heart, the new ACUSON AcuNav V volume catheter is said to improve therapeutic ablation procedures...
READ MORE -
Hypothermia Company Acquired by Philips
Philips has agreed to acquire the assets of InnerCool Therapies Inc., a therapeutic hypothermia company, and wholly-owned subsidiary of Cardium Therapeutics, Inc. It will be acquired in an asset purchase transaction for 11.25 million dollars, and the transfer of around 1.5 million dollars in trade payables. The transaction will reinforce Philips’ leadership...
READ MORE -
Boehringer-Ingelheim Posts Solid Growth Results
The pharmaceutical company Boehringer Ingelheim again posted gratifying growth in local currency (+8.3 percent) over the previous year in the first six months of 2009. Consolidated in euro, this reflected growth of + 15.7 percent thanks to the positive exchange rates, with net sales of 6,388 euros million compared with 5,522 million euros in the first...
READ MORE -
Sonosite Appoints New Director
Sonosite has announced the appointment of Rodney F. Hochman, M.D., to its Board of Directors. Dr. Hochman has more than 35 years of hospital management experience and has held numerous executive-level positions in hospitals across the country. He currently serves as CEO of Swedish Medical Centre and has led the organisation since April 2007. Prior...
READ MORE -
Medtronic Win Damages in Patents Case
Medtronic announced that a federal US district court jury in San Francisco awarded it 57 million dollars in past damages, finding that AGA Medical Corp.’s manufacture, sale and use of its Amplatzer® Occluder and vascular plug product lines infringed claims of two US patents owned by Medtronic. The jury also ordered that AGA pay Medtronic a royalty...
READ MORE -
Space Labs Expands Carolina Partnership
Carolina Pines Regional Medical Centre has increased their relationship with Spacelabs Healt hcare and installed a fleet of all-new bedside monitors and central monitors in their ICU. The new monitors join existing Spacelabs monitors in the hospital’s “rapid assessment” chest pain department, emergency department, paediatric care unit and telemetry...
READ MORE -
Editorial
Dear Readers, Medical technology is constantly widening the diagnostic and therapeutic horizons in our professional lives. It provides hope for the patient who looks to the rapidly developing medical technology of tomorrow for a solution to his or her complex health problems today. Simultaneously, medical technology represents a remarkable...
READ MORE -
Pfizer Research Reshuffle
The Wall Street Journal has reported that Pfizer have abandoned the development of medicines for heart diseases. In the past Pfizer dominated the cardiovascular drugs sector with Lipitor being named as the worlds best selling drug in 2007. Due to a reorganisation of research they will be leaving drugs such as Lipitor to focus on other programmes including...
READ MORE -
St Jude Medical Announce Clearance of Implantable Device
The SJM Confirm™ implantable cardiac monitor (ICM) is a compact device designed to help physicians detect abnormal heart rhythms in patients with unexplained symptoms. It enables the evaluation of heart rhythm signals over a longer period of time compared to standard monitoring tests and it is the smallest ICM available which can be implanted in an...
READ MORE
INFO
IMAGING
ICU
EXEC
IT
CARDIOLOGY
JOURNALS
EVENTS
FACULTY
PARTNERS
BLOG
VIDEOS
CONTACT US
