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ApniCure's Winx sleep therapy system has reported improvements in apnea-hypopnea index (AHI), a common measurement of sleep apnea severity, oxygen desaturation index (ODI), and sleep...
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Biotronik Pantera Lux balloon shows efficacy in DELUX registry
Biotronik's Pantera Lux paclitaxel-releasing balloon has demonstrated safety and efficacy in treating restenotic coronary artery lesions after drug-eluting or bare metal stenting in the...
Boston reveals positive data from Platinum Small Vessel study
Boston Scientific's 2.25mm Promus Element everolimus-eluting platinum chromium (PtCr) stent system has demonstrated safety and effectiveness in treating de novo coronary lesions in small...
CardioKinetix Parachute implant shows efficacy in two-year study
CardioKinetix's Parachute ventricular partitioning device has demonstrated meaningful and sustained improvement in clinical outcomes in patients with ischemic heart failure, in a two-year...
Medtronic IN.PACT drug-eluting balloons show efficacy in treating narrowed arteries
IN.PACT drug-eluting balloons from Medtronic have demonstrated benefits in the two multicentre, randomised controlled trials in treating patients with coronary and peripheral artery...
SAMS seeks donated medical devices to save Syrian lives
The Syrian American Medical Society (SAMS) will receive donated medical devices as part of its 'Save Syrian Lives' campaign in...
HeartWare concludes patient enrolment in Endurance therapy trial
HeartWare International has completed patient enrolment in an Endurance pivotal destination therapy clinical study designed to evaluate the use of the HeartWare ventricular assist system...
St. Jude Assura defibrillators get FDA clearance
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved St. Jude Medical's Assura portfolio of implantable cardioverter defibrillators (ICDs) and cardiac resynchronisation therapy...
Advanced Brain Monitoring introduces oral sleep apnea device
Advanced Brain Monitoring has launched Apnea Guard, the first validated temporary oral appliance with clinical equivalence to custom oral appliances for the treatment of snoring and sleep...
Cohera treats first patient using TissuGlu surgical adhesive
Cohera Medical announced that the first patient has been treated in a US prospective multicentre randomised clinical trial of its TissuGlu surgical...
Medtronic announces six month outcomes of Symplicity system
Medtronic's Symplicity renal denervation system has shown sustained blood pressure reduction, with no evidence of renal impairment, at six months post treatment in patients with...
Boston concludes patient enrolment in Lotus valve system trial
Boston Scientific completed patient enrolment for its Reprise I clinical trial designed to assess the acute safety of the Lotus aortic valve system, used to treat patients with severe aortic...
Miramar miraDry system reports efficacy in sweat reduction
Miramar Labs has announced the 18 months of follow-up data from a study which evaluated the efficacy and safety of the miraDry system, a non-invasive technology designed to treat primary...
Brainsway reports positive Deep TMS system trial data
Brainsway has announced positive results from its double-blind multicentre clinical trial of its deep transcranial magnetic stimulation (Deep TMS) system for treating major...
Medtronic Endurant stent shows positive results in US study
Medtronic has announced the two-year results from its US clinical study of the Endurant AAA stent graft system, used to treat patients with abdominal aortic aneurysms (AAA) with a...
Medtronic treats first patients in US drug-eluting balloon study
Medtronic has treated its first patients in its IN.PACT SFA II study, the company's first US clinical trial for its line of IN.PACT drug-eluting...
EnteroMedics Maestro RC system reports efficacy data
EnteroMedics has published 2.5-year diabetes, hypertension and weight loss data from the company's DM2 Enable study of vagal blocking (VBLOC therapy) delivered via the Maestro Rechargeable...
Covidien introduces AccuMesh hernia repair system
Covidien, a healthcare products company, has introduced the AccuMesh positioning system, a comprehensive, evidence-backed hernia repair...
Boston commences US, international launch of WallFlex transhepatic stent
Boston Scientific has initiated the US and international launch of its WallFlex biliary transhepatic stent system, along with a percutaneous delivery system, designed for use by...
Genomic reports positive results from Oncotype DX test trials
Genomic Health has announced results of three new Oncotype DX studies, confirming the test's cost-effectiveness and impact on treatment decisions in early-stage invasive breast cancer patients...
Gore enrols first Australian patients in endovascular aortic treatment registry
W. L. Gore & Associates (Gore) has enrolled the first Australian patients at the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Camperdown, into the global registry for endovascular aortic treatment...
