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Cook Medical is offering a range of high-definition EUS biopsy needles that are up to three-times brighter than others on the market. |
28 May 2009: Cook |
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Siemens Healthcare’s Cappa C-Nav optical navigation system supports minimally-invasive surgical procedures and is suitable for spinal as well as trauma surgery. |
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The Ottawa Hospital (Ottawa, Ontario, Canada) is embarking on a decade-long mutual support project with Elekta that will create an advanced cancer treatment centre. |
27 May 2009: Elekta |
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Boston Scientific is welcoming publication of results from the ISAT clinical trial showing patients with a ruptured intracranial aneurysm treated with endovascular coil embolization are 23 percent less likely to die within five years compared to patients who undergo surgical clipping. |
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Boston Scientific receives approval from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to market its Taxus Liberte Atom Paclitaxel-Eluting Coronary Stent System, a highly deliverable, next-generation drug-eluting stent (DES) specifically designed for treating small coronary vessels. |
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Boston Scientific starts patient enrollment in the ORION clinical trial, which is designed to evaluate the company's EPIC Self-Expanding Nitinol Stent System for the treatment of iliac artery disease, a form of peripheral artery disease that impacts a patient's lower extremities. |
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Boston Scientific releases results from an analysis of economic and quality of life outcomes, based on one-year data from its landmark SYNTAX trial.
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Smith and Nephew's Endoscopy Division launches the Biceptor Tenodesis System to treat injuries to the biceps tendon in the shoulder. |
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A two year follow up data report from a single centre, randomized clinical study in patients at high risk of restenosis presented at EuroPCR 2009, demonstrates stable results in patients treated with the OrbusNeich's Genous Bio-engineered R stent, the world's first pro-healing stent, compared with results from patients treated with a drug-eluting stent. |
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Life Spine introduces the KINETIC-SL Dynamic Anterior Cervical Plating System in the USA. |
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Boston Scientific launches the platinum chromium Taxus Element Paclitaxel-Eluting Coronary Stent System in select markets worldwide. |
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Boston Scientific announces positive outcomes from a substudy of patients with left main coronary disease who were treated with the Taxus Express2 Paclitaxel-Eluting Coronary Stent System. |
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Medtronic's Endeavor drug-eluting stent (DES) is the first and only coronary stent to have received CE Mark approval for treating patients with acute coronary syndrome (ACS), which includes unstable angina and acute myocardial infarction (AMI), commonly known as heart attack. |
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Roswell Park Cancer Institute (RPCI) becomes the first centre in New York state to install Elekta's Leksell Gamma Knife Perfexion, an advanced radiosurgery device specifically designed to treat one or more lesions in the head in a single session. |
11 May 2009: Elekta |
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Imbanaco Medical Center of Cali, Colombia is now treating patients with a Leksell Gamma Knife 4 from Elekta, the first Leksell Gamma Knife in Colombia and the first new Leksell Gamma Knife in Latin America in 10 years. |
11 May 2009: Elekta |
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Philips acquires Canada-based Traxtal, an medical technology company in the field of minimally-invasive instruments and software for image-guided intervention and therapy. |
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Medtronic completes enrollment in its investigational device exemption (IDE) study of the Endurant Stent Graft System, which is designed to enable the non-surgical repair of aortic aneurysms. |
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Glan Clywd Hospital plans to offer local cancer patients across North Wales more advanced radiotherapy treatments using RapidArc radiotherapy technology on two new treatment machines from Varian Medical Systems. |
08 May 2009: Varian |
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Korea's leading university hospital is beginning treatments using Varian Medical Systems’ RapidArc technology that potentially enables doctors to improve outcomes while extending modern care to more patients. |
07 May 2009: Varian |
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Medtronic unveils the Vertex Select Reconstruction System Occipitocervical Module to the US market. |
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Incisive Surgical is launching a more user-friendly next generation version of its INSORB Absorbable Skin Stapler at the Annual Meeting of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists being held in Chicago from May 4 to 6, 2009. |
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The PEEK Prevail Device is an implant used to treat patients who suffer from a degenerative condition that affects the neck (cervical spine). |
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Cardica is seeking to expand beyond the field of cardiac surgery and into additional surgical markets with the development of a true multi-fire endoscopic linear microcutter based on proprietary technology developed by the company. |
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The results of a 16-month clinical study shows that the Cook Medical Resonance Metallic Ureteral Stent could remain in a patient for up to 12 months; generating a 43 percent cost savings in treating benign ureteral obstruction. |
29 April 2009: Cook |
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Medtronic reports the start of THRIVE, the company's US post-market clinical study of its Talent Thoracic Stent Graft for the endovascular repair of thoracic aortic aneurysms. |
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