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Sorin Group (Milan, Italy) reported receiving CE marking for its new Cobalt Chrome coronary carbostent, the Chrono stent. The company said that Chrono will be fully released in Europe and all the CE mark countries.
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AGA Medical (Minneapolis), the University of Minnesota Medical School and the Minnesota Medical Foundation reported establishment of the Amplatz Chair in Radiology, a permanently endowed chair at the University of Minnesota Medical School, with AGA Medical donating $2 million in initial funding of the chair.
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The FDA approved a humanitarian device exemption (HDE) for fetoscopy instrument sets distributed by Karl Storz Endoscopy America (Culver City, California) under the Humanitarian Use Device (HUD) program for the treatment of fetuses with twin-to-twin transfusion syndrome (TTTS).
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Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) in mid-March proposed steep cuts in various areas of Medicare reimbursement that, if implemented, could have significant implications for the medical device industry.
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You get what you pay for- is a favorite mantra serving as a corollary to supply-side capitalistic perspectives. But a variety of healthcare metrics could be shown to indicate that the mantra more often than not fails to hold true in U.S. healthcare.
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Cordis (Miami Lakes, Florida), a subsidiary of Johnson & Johnson (New Brunswick, New Jersey) last month unveiled plans to develop what it called a "world-class global cardiac and vascular institute."
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Most cardiac arrest victims die before they reach the hospital, and traumatic injury is a top killer in North America. With the launch of a research program funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH; Bethesda, Maryland) and other federal and Canadian agencies, scientists hope to learn the best ways to improve survival chances from cardiac arrest and severe trauma.
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Edward Brennan, PhD, previously the president and chief operating officer of CryoCor (San Diego), has been promoted to CEO and appointed to the board of directors. Brennan joined CryoCor in January 2005, and he will lead the maker of the CryoCor Cardiac Cryoablation System's transition to a commercial-stage enterprise from an early-stage company.
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While patient simulators can clearly be used to assess the performance of ED staff in pediatric trauma cases, they also can be used to improve their performance in these cases. Thats what the ED at Cincinnati Childrens Hospital Medical Center has been doing since May 2002.
