Cardiovascular Device Update articles from January 2006

Cardiovascular Device Update archives from January 2006

Expanding options available in heart disease management.
January 1, 2006... Expanding options available in heart disease management By MICHAEL SIMONSEN, PhD CDU Contributing Editor DALLAS -- The 2005 scientific sessions of the American Heart Association (AHA), held here in the group's home city in...

Revised guidelines for PCI give a market boost to new systems.(percutaneous coronary intervention)(Report)
January 1, 2006... AHA Scientific Sessions Revised guidelines for PCI give a market boost to new systems By DON LONG CDU Managing Editor DALLAS -- Reflecting the rapid advances being made in minimally invasive procedures in cardiology, three...

Boston Sci makes a late play for Guidant with its $25B offer.
January 1, 2006... Boston Sci makes a late play for Guidant with its $25B offer By HOLLAND JOHNSON CDU Associate Managing Editor In an 11th-hour deal, Boston Scientific (Natick, Massachusetts) proposed in early December to acquire all the outstanding...

International report.
January 1, 2006... International report Enrollment starts in Japan on SPIRIT III A CDU Staff Report Guidant (Indianapolis) said in mid-December that it had begun enrollment in the Japan arm of its SPIRIT III drug-eluting stent clinical trial, which...

Acquisitions.
January 1, 2006... Acquisitions * Angiotech Pharmaceuticals (Vancouver, British Columbia) reported that it has completed its acquisition of Edwards Lifesciences' (Irvine, California) Lifespan ePTFE vascular graft business, located in Laguna Hills,...

Business Developments.
January 1, 2006... Business Developments CABG suspends Holly Graft trial CABG Medical (Minneapolis) reported in late November that it had suspended enrollment in the international clinical trial of its drug-eluting Holly Graft System (HGS) for...

Agreements.
January 1, 2006... Agreements * The Bayer HealthCare Diagnostics Division (Tarrytown, New York) and Inverness Medical Innovations (Waltham, Massachusetts) reported signing four agreements to broaden their assay menu offerings worldwide in the diagnostics...

Market Updates.
January 1, 2006... Market Updates Consensus guidelines boost PAD detection More than 12 million Americans suffer from peri-pheral arterial disease (PAD), prompting the American College of Cardiology (ACC; Bethesda, Maryland) and American Heart...

Personnel File.(brief)(appointments of)
January 1, 2006... Personnel File * The American College of Cardiology (Bethesda, Maryland) reported that Christine McEntee is no longer CEO of the professional medical society. She had been with ACC for more than seven years. The ACC has initiated a...

Product Pipeline.
January 1, 2006... Product Pipeline Edwards unveils new placement for valve Edwards Lifesciences (Irvine, California) reported in late November that it has developed a new ap-proach for placing a valve in a beating heart. A medical team from St. Paul's...