Cardiovascular Device Update articles from November 2003

Cardiovascular Device Update archives from November 2003

Data on drug-eluting stents glistens in spotlight at TCT.
November 1, 2003... WASHINGTON -- Stents, stents and more stents. Despite a clear effort by conference organizers to embrace presentations on new resynchronization/pacing technologies and other interventional technology developments, the annual Transcatheter...

Controversies brew in the treatment of vascular disease.
November 1, 2003... LAS VEGAS, Nevada -- Vascular surgery has historically been characterized by a cautious attitude toward new procedures. But the trend toward a minimally invasive approach that has impacted many other areas of medicine is emerging as a force in...

GAO: Niche hospitals siphon funds from general hospitals.
November 1, 2003... WASHINGTON -- Physicians with an ownership interest in specialty hospitals could be barred from referring patients to these facilities if a bipartisan amendment gets added to the final Medicare prescription drug benefit legislation. The...

NICE recommends drug-eluting stent use.(Report from Europe)
November 1, 2003... Britain's National Institute of Clinical Excellence (NICE), which provides guidance to health professionals, patients and the public on best practices in medicine, last month recommended the use of drug-eluting stents in patients with...

CalbaTech.(Acquisitions)
November 1, 2003... * CalbaTech (Irvine, California), which is focused on acquiring, incubating and developing early stage life science companies, reported that it has acquired intellectual property relating to the delivery of stem cells to diseased or dead areas...

Camtronics Medical Systems (Hartland, Wisconsin), a subsidiary of Analogic (Peabody, Massachusetts) and a developer of cardiovascular information management and homodynamic monitoring.(Acquisitions)
November 1, 2003... * Camtronics Medical Systems (Hartland, Wisconsin), a subsidiary of Analogic (Peabody, Massachusetts) and a developer of cardiovascular information management and hemodynamic monitoring, said it will purchase the hemodynamic monitoring product...

Cardiac Science.(Acquisitions)
November 1, 2003... * Cardiac Science (Irvine, California), a manufacturer of automated public access defibrillators (AEDs), reported acquiring substantially all the assets of Complient (Cleveland, Ohio), a privately held provider of AED and CPR training and...

E-Z-EM.(Acquisitions)
November 1, 2003... * E-Z-EM (Lake Success, New York), a manufacturer of contrast agents for gastrointestinal radiology, said it is considering a spin-off and initial public offering of its subsidiary, AngioDynamics (Queensbury, New York). The company reported...

Guidant. (Santa Clara, California) reported an agreement with Starion Instruments (Saratoga, California) to license tissue-welding technology for use in its next-generation cardiac surgery products to advance endoscopic vessel harvesting procedures.(Acquisitions)
November 1, 2003... * Guidant (Santa Clara, California) reported an agreement with Starion Instruments (Saratoga, California) to license tissue-welding technology for use in its next-generation cardiac surgery products to advance endoscopic vessel harvesting...

Thrombosis reports raise Cypher concerns.(Business Developments)
November 1, 2003... The FDA in late October issued a public health notification reporting a variety of adverse events associated with use of the very first drug-eluting stent commercialized in the U.S., the Cypher, made and distributed by the Cordis (Miami Lakes,...

'Advances in cardiovascular technology vol. 2' available.
November 1, 2003... "Advances in Cardiovascular Technology: Emerging Markets for the 21st Century, Vol. 2," the newest sourcebook from the publishers of Cardiovascular Device Update and The BBI Newsletter, has just been released. Updating "Advances in...

American Healthways. (Nashville, Tennessee) signed a three-year agreement with Horizon Healthcare Services (HHS; Newark New Jersey), and its subsidiary, Horizon Healthcare of New Jersey.(Agreements)
November 1, 2003... * American Healthways (Nashville, Tennessee) signed a three-year agreement with Horizon Healthcare Services (HHS; Newark, New Jersey), and its subsidiary, Horizon Healthcare of New Jersey, to provide the company's disease management program for...

Biosite. (San Diego, California) said it has filed a 510(k) submission, with the FDA seeking clearance to market the Triage BNP test for Beckman Coulter.(Agreements)
November 1, 2003... * Biosite (San Diego, California) said it has filed a 510(k) submission, with the FDA seeking clearance to market the Triage BNP Test for Beckman Coulter (Fullerton, California) Immunoassay Systems, a diagnostic test that measures B-type...

Camtronics Medical Systems.(Agreements)
November 1, 2003... * Camtronics Medical Systems (Hartland, Wisconsin), a provider of cardiovascular image and information management and hemodynamic monitoring technology, expanded on the strategic alliance it has formed with Quinton Cardiology Systems (Bothell,...

Cardiome Pharma. (Vancouver, British Columbia) and Fujisawa Healthcare (Deerfield, Illinois), the U.S. subsidiary of Fujisawa Pharmaceutical Co.(Agreements)
November 1, 2003... * Cardiome Pharma (Vancouver, British Columbia) and Fujisawa Healthcare (Deerfield, Illinois), the U.S. subsidiary of Fujisawa Pharmaceutical Co., said they executed a $68 million (C$90 million) strategic partnership agreement for the...

Novare Surgical Systems.(Agreements)
November 1, 2003... * Novare Surgical Systems (Cupertino, California) has entered into a multiple-year supply agreement with Boston Scientific (Natick, Massachusetts) under which Boston Scientific will purchase specially modified models of Novare's Intrack line of...

Possis Medical. (Minneapolis, Minnesota) has signed a letter of intent with Angiometrx, a subsidiary of Medical Ventures (Richmond, British Columbia).(Agreements)
November 1, 2003... * Possis Medical (Minneapolis, Minnesota) has signed a letter of intent with Angiometrx, a subsidiary of Medical Ventures (Richmond, British Columbia), to act as the exclusive distributor of the Angiometrx Metricath 1000 console and measurement...

New test looks to foretell heart attack.(Market Updates)
November 1, 2003... While there is certainly no crystal ball to see who is most likely to have a heart attack, the Cleveland Clinic (Cleveland, Ohio) has developed a new blood test that may be one approach to doing so and could become a standard in emergency rooms...

Daniel Cher, MD, has been named to the newly created post of medical director at Cardima.(Personnel File)
November 1, 2003... * Daniel Cher, MD, has been named to the newly created post of medical director at Cardima (Fremont, California). He previously served as managing scientist at Exponent Failure Analysis. Cardima has developed the Revelation Tx, Revelation...

Corautus Genetics (Atlanta, Georgia) made several management appointments that prepare the company for its Phase IIb trial to test the efficacy and safety of its VEGF-2 gene therapy in treating coronary artery disease.(Personnel File)
November 1, 2003... * Corautus Genetics (Atlanta, Georgia) made several management appointments that prepare the company for its Phase IIb trial to test the efficacy and safety of its VEGF-2 gene therapy in treating coronary artery disease. Nina Vincent Sewell,...

Beverly Lorell, MD, has been named vice president, chief medical and technology officer of Guidant.(Personnel File)
November 1, 2003... * Beverly Lorell, MD, has been named vice president, chief medical and technology officer of Guidant (Indianapolis, Indiana). Lorell previously was professor of medicine at Harvard University Medical School and director of the program in heart...

John Park, MD, will join a Sutter Health (San Francisco, California) collaborative heart program between California Pacific Medical Center (also San Francisco) and Marin General Hospital.(Personnel File)
November 1, 2003... * John Park, MD, will join a Sutter Health (San Francisco, California) collaborative heart program between California Pacific Medical Center (also San Francisco) and Marin General Hospital (Marin County, California). He will be chair of the...

ThermoGenesis (Rancho Cordova, California) has named Rudy Hulyebroeck director of marketing.(Personnel File)
November 1, 2003... * ThermoGenesis (Rancho Cordova, California) has named Rudy Hulyebroeck director of marketing. He previousoly was with Jomed, St. Jude Medical, Cordis and Baxter. Kim Ellner has joined ThermoGenesis as director of manufacturing operations after...

St. Jude gets okay for 'highest output' ICD.(Product Pipeline)
November 1, 2003... St. Jude Medical (Minneapolis, Minnesota) reported receiving FDA approval and European CE marking, as well as the first implant of its Atlas Plus implantable cardioverter defibrillator (ICD), which it said is the highest-output (36 joules...