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Jill Knudson has been promoted from director of engineering and operations to general manager of Catheter and Disposables Technology, a subsidiary of CardioTech International (both Wilmington, Massachusetts).
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Until now, the primary system for monitoring fluid buildup, frequently termed overload, has been extremely simple and less than low-tech the simple bathroom scale to measure weight gain. Now, Medtronic (Minneapolis) claims a large and definitely high-tech advance, using the November scientific sessions of the American Heart Association (AHA; Dallas) to report approval of its InSync Sentry cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT) defibrillator systems.
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The past three to four years have been marked by stent frenzy. The frenzy has passed. Now comes stent mania. That is clearly the future prospect for drug-eluting stent (DES) technology and the resultant proliferation of research in this arena, according to Martin Leon, MD, speaking to a nearly full auditorium of attendees during the American Heart Association (Dallas) scientific sessions in November.
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Early identification of individuals at risk for cardiovascular disease, including myocardial infarction, stroke and peripheral vascular disease, has become increasingly important within the past decade as advances in therapy, including drug treatment as well as minimally invasive revascularization therapies, have enabled physicians to alter the course of disease and achieve significant improvements in patient outcome.
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Roughly speaking, the healthy heart is shaped something like a football. Beset by congestive heart failure, the heart begins to dilate, expanding and reshaping to take on a spherical basketball look, according to Douglas Mann, MD, a cardiologist affiliated with the Michael E. DeBakey Veterans Affairs Medical Center and Baylor College of Medicine (both Houston).
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Bristol-Myers Squibb Medical Imaging (North Billerica, Massachusetts) and Thermocore Medical Ltd. (Guildford, UK) reported in late November that they have entered into a global development and commercialization agreement for Thermocores intracoronary thermographic catheter system and related platform technology.
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CardioTech International (Wilmington, Massachusetts) reported the execution of a definitive agreement to acquire CarTika Medical (Plymouth, Minnesota) a private medical device contract manufacturer, for an undisclosed purchase price.
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A federal court last month laid the groundwork for a trial concerning claims by Medinol (Tel Aviv, Israel) that its former partner, Boston Scientific (Natick, Massachusetts), secretly established a factory in Ireland to manufacture Medinol stents in violation of previous agreements between the firms.
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Cardiac Science (Irvine, California) said it has expanded its multi-year strategic distribution agreement with GE Healthcare (Waukesha, Wisconsin) under which GE will begin marketing Cardiac Sciences line of Powerheart-branded automated external defibrillators (AEDs) and fully-automatic in-hospital defibrillator-monitors (CRMs) to hospitals in the U.S. and Canada.
