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The State Food and Drug Administration (SFDA) of the People's Republic of China has granted regulatory approval for the sale of Starion Instruments’ patented Tissue Welding technology in China. |
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Restore Medical and Medtronic have signed a definitive agreement which will see Medtronic pay $1.60 per share in cash for each share of Restore Medical stock. |
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Boston Scientific has received approval for the sale of its Taxus Liberte paclitaxel-eluting coronary stent system in Canada. |
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Topex of Danbury, Connecticut, US is helping to fight skin cancer with the introduction of its SRT 100 low energy or superficial x-ray therapy system specially designed for skin cancer treatment procedures. |
17 April 2008: Topex |
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Medtronic’s Talent Abdominal Stent Graft on the CoilTrac Delivery System has received approval by the US Food and Drug Administration. |
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BSD Medical has provided its 510(k) Premarket Notification submission to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for the MicroThermX-100 Microwave Ablation System. |
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ArthroCare’s Cavity SpineWand has been successfully used in treating patients suffering from spine tumours - clinically known as spinal metastases. |
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SurgiQuest has announced the first true single port laparoscopic procedure utilising the AirSeal access system that creates an invisible barrier that does not rely on gaskets or seals. |
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Atlas Spine has launched the Back-PAK Discectomy Set, which is an advanced instrument system designed to make discectomy procedures and implant site preparation more efficient for surgeons. |
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CardioTech International has received all necessary approvals to add a second medical centre for the clinical trial of CardioPass , the company’s proprietary synthetic coronary bypass graft. |
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Omni-Tract Surgical has introduced its new Speed-Tract retractor system at the Association of periOperative Registered Nurses (AORN) annual meeting. |
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Encision has launched a new disposable hand-activated fixed-tip electrode line of laparoscopic instruments that offers surgeons greater control and precision during surgeries while simultaneously delivering increased safety to patients. |
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Cook Medical is aiming to improve bariatric and thoracic surgical procedures with the US launch of the self-adhesive Surgisis Biodesign Staple Line Reinforcement. |
31 March 2008: Cook |
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Data showing the clinical efficacy for Medtronic’s Endeavor drug-eluting stent has been released at the American College of Cardiology meeting. |
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Medtronic has released data at the American College of Cardiology meeting that shows the company’s Endeavor drug-eluting stent exhibits a safety profile more commonly associated with a bare-metal stent, long considered a benchmark for stent safety. |
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Boston Scientific has released results from an analysis of two-year data from more than 7,000 patients in the Taxus Arrive Registry programme. |
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Boston Scientific has released results from an analysis of 4,772 patients from its Taxus Arrive 1 and 2 registries that were designed to assess the performance of the Taxus Express2 Paclitaxel-Eluting Coronary Stent System in real-world practice. |
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A poster be released at the American College of Cardiology (ACC) Scientific Sessions in Chicago, USA, will feature results from a study using a Cardiac Ablation System supplied by Ablation Frontiers. |
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Medtronic has received regulatory approval from Health Canada’s Therapeutic Products Directorate (TPD) for use of the Endeavor drug-eluting coronary stent (DES) system in the treatment of coronary artery disease. |
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Encision has launched its next generation of EnTouch handles for its AEM articulating laparoscopic instrument inserts. |
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Valor Medical has announced that the first human implant of Neucrylate AN for treatment of cerebral aneurysms was performed by Dr Sean Pakbaz at the University of Tehran. |
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The University Clinic of Schleswig-Holstein (UC S-H) has commissioned a consortium of bidders including Siemens, Bilfinger Berger and HSG Technischer Service with the construction and operation of the first particle therapy centre (PTC) in Northern Germany. |
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Innocoll Technologies has commenced dosing in the second of a series of planned phase 2 clinical trials to investigate CollaRx Bupivacaine surgical implant for the management of post-operative pain. |
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Results from Absorb, the world's first clinical trial of a fully bioabsorbable drug eluting stent for the treatment of coronary artery disease, have demonstrated no stent thrombosis, no clinically driven target lesion revascularizations (retreatment of a diseased lesion), and a low (3.3 percent) rate of major adverse cardiac events (MACE) in 30 patients out to one year. |
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The Derby Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has placed the first UK order for Siemens’ Artiste Solution. |
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