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Boston Scientific has completed enrollment in the Perseus trial, which is designed to evaluate the company's third-generation Taxus Element paclitaxel-eluting coronary stent. |
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RapidArc radiotherapy technology from Varian Medical Systems has been deployed by doctors Syracuse Radiation Oncology in Syracuse, New York, USA for the first time. |
03 October 2008: Varian |
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ATS Medical has announced the US launch and first clinical uses of the ATS CryoMaze Surgical Ablation Clamp. |
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Smith and Nephew's Endoscopy Division has launched its bioabsorbable Biosure HA Interference Screw range for use in Anterior Cruciate Ligament (ACL) and Posterior Cruciate Ligament (PCL) reconstruction in the knee joint. |
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Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center (WFUBMC) has reinforced its ability to perform state-of-the-art stereotactic radiation medicine by adding Leksell Gamma Knife Perfexion and Elekta Axesse to its range of treatment solutions. |
01 October 2008: Elekta |
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Elekta has donated a Leksell Stereotactic System for minimally invasive brain surgery to the International Charitable Foundation ‘Ukraine 3000’ for which Kateryna Yuschenko, wife of the president of Ukraine is the prime guardian. |
30 September 2008: Elekta |
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Pioneer Surgical Technology has released the Cross-Fuse Lateral Option System, which is the company’s latest addition to a family of PEEK (poly-ether-ether-ketone) VBRs. |
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Verathon has introduced an innovative GlideScope Video Laryngoscope designed specifically for bariatric applications. |
30 September 2008: Verathon |
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Medtronic and CryoCath Technologies have entered into an agreement which will see Medtronic, through a wholly owned subsidiary, make a takeover bid for all of the outstanding shares of CryoCath. |
25 September 2008: Medtronic |
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Boston Scientific has received approval from the US FDA to market its Taxus Express2 Atom Paclitaxel-Eluting Coronary Stent System. |
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Doctors at the Oregon Health and Science University (OHSU) have become the first clinicians in the Pacific Northwest to offer patients an advanced form of image-guided stereotactic body radiation therapy (SBRT) and radiosurgery using new Novalis Tx technology from Varian Medical Systems and BrainLAB. |
24 September 2008: Varian |
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Sorin Group has announced the first patient enrolment in the e-Optima registry which is designed to assess the clinical performance of the Sorin Group Optima Drug-Eluting Stent (DES) Carbostent in the treatment of real-world patients in routine clinical practice. |
23 September 2008: Sorin |
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BrainLAB has introduced the company's latest image-guided surgery innovation, VectorVision flex, a small, ergonomic navigation platform coupled with an additional large, high-resolution display. |
23 September 2008: BrainLAB |
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Oklahoma CyberKnife, which is operated in partnership with US Radiosurgery, has reduced treatment planning and delivery times during the last two months with installation of the next generation CyberKnife Robotic Radiosurgery System from Accuray. |
23 September 2008: Accuray |
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Accuray has introduced the InTempo Adaptive Imaging System, which enhances the CyberKnife Robotic Radiosurgery System's ability to continually track and correct for motion of the prostate during treatment. |
22 September 2008: Accuray |
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Odense University Hospital in Denmark is the first Scandinavian cancer centre to select Elekta VMAT (Volumetric intensity Modulated Arc Therapy) to expand the capabilities of the hospital’s radiation oncology department. |
22 September 2008: Elekta |
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Elekta has introduced a new stereotactic treatment programme, called Extend, that lets neurosurgeons and radiation oncologists apply the power and precision of Gamma Knife surgery to an even broader class of targets in the head and neck. |
19 September 2008: Elekta |
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Accuray is offering a new layout for the CyberKnife Robotic Radiosurgery System treatment vault which will enable installation of the system into most existing conventional gantry LINAC vaults. |
18 September 2008: Accuray |
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New GlideScope single-use video laryngoscope systems have been introduced by Verathon for preterm and neonatal patients. |
18 September 2008: Verathon |
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Doctors at IOSI in Switzerland have carried out the country's first clinical treatments using RapidArc technology from Varian Medical Systems. |
17 September 2008: Varian |
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Clinicians from the first three European hospitals to start clinical treatments using RapidArc - VU University medical centre in Amsterdam, Netherlands, Rigshospitalet in Copenhagen, Denmark and the Oncology Institute of Southern Switzerland in Bellinzona, Switzerland - addressed a packed Emerging Technologies Symposium at the annual ESTRO conference to give detailed accounts of early patient treatments. |
17 September 2008: Varian |
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Medtronic has started of two new trials of the Endeavor Resolute drug‐eluting stent (DES), the company’s innovative complement to the Endeavor drug‐eluting stent, which was approved by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in February 2008. |
16 September 2008: Medtronic |
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Presbyterian Cancer Center - Dallas, a joint venture between Presbyterian Hospital of Dallas and Texas Oncology, PA, has installed an Elekta Infinity system to enable the facility to begin treating patients with Volumetric Modulated Arc Therapy (VMAT). |
16 September 2008: Elekta |
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CMS, an Elekta company, has launched its new 4D treatment planning solution, Focal4D. |
16 September 2008: Elekta |
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Ghent University Hospital in Belgium is acquiring RapidArc technology from Varian Medical Systems for fast and efficient modulated arc therapy treatments for an increasing number of cancer patients. |
15 September 2008: Varian |
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