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After more than two years of clinical data linking drug-eluting stents (DES) with an increased risk of stent thrombosis compared to their bare-metal cousins, a study in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) may shed some positive light on the DES space.
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Cook Medical; HealthTrust Purchasing Group; Freescale Semiconductor; Monebo Technologies; HemCon Medical Technologies; SanguiBioTech; LifeScan; ResMed; Johnson & Johnson; IDev Technologies; YMed; Positron; Disease Management; NuView Radiopharmaceuticals
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In a move that could help offset its $458 million 4Q07 Gudiant-related losses, Boston Scientific (Natick, Massachusetts) reported last month that it had signed a definitive agreement to sell its investments in a portfolio of companies, subject to certain closing and other conditions, to Saints Capital (San Francisco), a secondary direct-investment firm.
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Applera; Celera; Berkeley HeartLab; Abbott Laboratories; Applied Biosystems; Invitrogen; Escalon Medical; Drew Scientific; JAS Diagnostics; Kardia Health Systems; Freeland Systems; Pediatrix Medical Group
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It takes a team to change the high-risk lifestyle habits of a single individual according to a large-scale study conducted by the European Society of Cardiology (ESC; Sophia Antipolis, France) published in the June 14 issue of The Lancet.
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Medtronic (Minneapolis) in mid-June received FDA approval of its Attain StarFix OTW (over-the-wire) lead. The company said it's the first active fixation left-heart lead for cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT) and that the lead has demonstrated a 0% chronic (meaning more than one day post-implant) dislodgement rate.
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SAN FRANCISCO Big medical companies usually have big footprints at medical conferences, and Medtronic stomped around with one of the very largest CD&D has ever seen at this year's scientific sessions of the Heart Rhythm Society (HRS; Washington).
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Two Epidemiologic Intelligence Service officers from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention visited the Endoscopy Clinic of Southern Nevada in Las Vegas to investigate cases of hepatitis C and noted lapses in injection safety. Practices differed among the nurse anesthetists. This is an excerpt of their report:
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At the Endoscopy Clinic of Southern Nevada in Las Vegas, it was not uncommon for a nurse anesthetist to remove the needle from a syringe and reuse the syringe even on another patient, public health investigators report.
