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Orthofix International sells vascular business to Covidien

Orthofix International sells to Covidien the assets of Orthofix’s vascular business, including its AV-Impulse mechanical compression technology.

10 March 2010: Orthofix International

 

Replication Medical receives a CE mark for spinal implant

Replication Medical receives a CE mark for its GelFix Posterior Spinal Distraction implant.

10 March 2010: Replication Medical

 

Researchers use single kV imager for 'real-time' tracking of prostate motion

Researchers in the US and Denmark are claiming a breakthrough in image-guided targeting of prostate tumours during arc radiotherapy treatments.

08 March 2010: Varian

 

Dual mobility acetabular system minimizes hip replacement surgery risks

The ADM X3 Mobile Bearing Acetabular System, a next-generation technology for hip replacement surgery designed to minimise the risks associated with total hip replacement surgery is released by Stryker Orthopaedics.

08 March 2010: Stryker

 

SAMBA Stent for the treatment of PAD receives CE Mark

NovoStent receives the CE Mark for its SAMBA Stent and Delivery System for the treatment of peripheral artery disease.

04 March 2010: Novostent

 

Spineology signs up to distribute Captiva’s capLOX Pedicle Screw System

Spineology is partnering with Captiva Spine as a non-exclusive US distributor for Captiva’s capLOX Pedicle Screw System.

03 March 2010: Spineology

 

Small Bone Innovations receives 510(k) clearance mini-rail fixation system

Small Bone Innovations (SBi) receives 510(k) pre-market clearance notifications from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for Mini-Rail Fixation System (‘Mini-Rail System’) and large Cannulated Screw System for use in lower limb reconstruction and repair procedures.

02 March 2010: Small Bone Innovations

 

Barnes-Jewish Hospital to offer the benefits of Gamma Knife surgery

Just one year after it began clinical use of Elekta’s Leksell Gamma Knife Perfexion radiosurgery system, Barnes-Jewish Hospital (St. Louis, Missouri., USA) is poised to offer the benefits of Gamma Knife surgery to several new patient groups. With Elekta’s Extend programme for Gamma Knife Perfexion,

26 February 2010: Elekta

 

ROC reduces cancer treatment times with Elekta’s VMAT system

Roseville Radiation Oncology Center (ROC) at Radiological Associates of Sacramento (RAS). RAS, a large private medical group, includes diagnostics as well as therapy in its centres is treating 30-35 patients per day, mainly with prostate and breast lesions.

23 February 2010: Elekta

 

Tissue repair system simplifies implantation of tissue repair device

Anulex Technologies, a privately held medical device manufacturer focusing on spinal disc preservation and anular repair products, introduces the Xclose Plus Tissue Repair System at the AANS/CNS Joint Section on Disorders of the Spine and Peripheral Nerves meeting in Orlando, Florida, USA.

23 February 2010: Anulex Technologies

 

Maquet Cardiovascular signs vascular grafts deal with HealthTrust Purchasing

Maquet Cardiovascular signs a three year contract with HealthTrust Purchasing Group to provide woven and knitted textile vascular grafts to the HealthTrust membership.

22 February 2010: Maquet USA

 

Avamar selects ProVation MD software for gastroenterology documentation

Wolters Kluwer Health announces that Avamar Center for Endoscopy has selected its ProVation MD software for gastroenterology procedure documentation and coding.

19 February 2010: ProVation Medical

 

OrbusNeich enrolls the first patient in bio-engineered stent

OrbusNeich enrolls the first patient in a randomized clinical trial of the Genous Bio-engineered R stent in China.

15 February 2010: OrbusNeich

 

Elekta expands its STRATEGIQ Services cancer care programme

Given the intricacies surrounding the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act, Elekta expands its STRATEGIQ Services programme to help cancer care centres take advantage of the financial incentives available from the federal government.

08 February 2010: Elekta

 

St Jude Medical’s Fortify ICD and Unify CRT-D receive CE Mark

St Jude Medical receives CE Mark approval and has seen the first implants of its Fortify and Fortify ST implantable cardioverter defibrillators (ICD) and Unify cardiac resynchronization therapy defibrillator (CRT-D).

08 February 2010: St Jude Medical

 

Study highlights benefits of sterile barrier sheath system for ENT scopes

Results of a clinical study presented at the annual Triological Society meetings in Orlando, Florida, USA, suggest a sterile barrier sheath system has distinct advantages over germicidal immersion processes used to prevent contamination of fiberoptic nasopharyngolaryngoscopes (flexible ENT scopes).

08 February 2010: Medtronic

 

St Jude Medical receives IDE for AF ablation system trial

St Jude Medical receives an Investigational Device Exemption (IDE) from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to begin enrollment in the IRASE AF (IRrigated Ablation System Evaluation for AF) trial, a multicentre, randomized, single-blind study evaluating the safety and efficacy of the company's Duo 12 port open irrigated catheter ablation system for treatment of Atrial Fibrillation (AF).

04 February 2010: St Jude Medical

 

Smith & Nephew clinches three-year contract for arthroscopic shaver blades

Smith & Nephew's Endoscopy Division receives a three-year contract from HealthTrust Purchasing Group as a supplier of arthroscopic shaver blades to its membership nationwide.

03 February 2010: Smith and Nephew Endoscopy

 

Maquet begins Endoscopic Vessel Harvesting study of bypass grafts

Maquet Cardiovascular is initiating the OPTION (Optimal Improvement of Vein Graft Patency Long Term by the Implementation Of Novel Endoscopic Harvesting Techniques) study.

27 January 2010: Maquet USA

 

ATS Medical achieves first implants using a sutureless technique

ATS Medical announces the first commercial implants of the ATS 3f Enable Aortic Bioprosthesis were recently performed at the University of Berne Hospital, Berne, Switzerland by Lars Englberger, MD, Mario Stalder, MD, and Professor Thierry Carrel.

27 January 2010: ATS Medical

 

Medtronic to acquire Invatec and affiliated companies

Moving to expand its impact on peripheral vascular disease, Medtronic signs a definitive agreement to acquire Invatec, a developer of innovative medical technologies for the interventional treatment of cardiovascular disease, and two affiliated companies: Fogazzi, which provides polymer technology to Invatec; and Krauth Cardiovascular, which distributes Invatec products in Germany.

26 January 2010: Medtronic

 

Royal North Shore Hospital becomes Australia’s first IGRT teaching facility

The Radiation Oncology Department at Royal North Shore Hospital in Sydney becomes the first in Australia to be formally accredited by Varian Medical Systems, the world leader in radiotherapy, as a teaching facility for image-guided radiotherapy (IGRT). The hospital will hold four IGRT courses in 2010 and there are plans to extend this accreditation to other advanced techniques such as intensity-modulated radiotherapy (IMRT) and RapidArc in the future.

25 January 2010: Varian

 

LifeNet Health launches pulmonary patch for paediatric congenital heart patients

LifeNet Health is launching the CardioGRAFT decell pulmonary patch with Matracell technology at the Society of Thoracic Surgeons annual meeting in Ft Lauderdale, Florida, USA, on January 24 2010

25 January 2010: LifeNet Health

 

PUMCH selects intraoperative electron-beam radiation therapy solution

The Peking Union Medical College Hospital (PUMCH) in Beijing, China has ordered a Mobetron intraoperative electron-beam radiation therapy (IOERT) system from IntraOp Medical for its cancer care facility.

21 January 2010: IntraOp Medical Corporation

 

Boston Scientific begins WallFlex Biliary RX Fully Covered Stent clinical trial

Boston Scientific enrolls the first patient in a clinical trial to evaluate its WallFlex Biliary RX Fully Covered Stent for the treatment of benign bile duct strictures.

15 January 2010: Boston Scientific

 
 
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