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LifeNet Health in conjunction with Arthrex releases the KinetiGraft Tendon, the Triple Bundle Tendon and Rotator Cuff bio-implant, all offering new options for ligament and tendon reconstruction. |
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ATS Medical receives FDA clearance and confirms the first implant of the ATS Simulus Semi-Rigid Annuloplasty Band. |
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Elekta forms an investment company, Global Medical Investments (GMI), with Swedfund International for financing and establishment of cancer care projects in developing countries. |
07 July 2009: Elekta |
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Osaka City University Hospital (Osaka, Japan) is implementing Elekta’s Volumetric Modulated Arc Therapy (VMAT), which is an innovative cancer treatment. |
06 July 2009: Elekta |
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Accumetrics reaches the halfway mark (1,600 patients) in the enrollment of its landmark clinical trial, GRAVITAS (Gauging Responsiveness with A VerifyNow Assay Impact on Thrombosis And Safety). |
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Simbionix and the European Association for Endoscopic Surgery (EAES) sign an agreement to collaborate on the development of training materials and assessment tools for a new Laparoscopic Skills Curriculum. |
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University of Tokyo Hospital has been treating patients for nearly one year with Elekta Volumetric Modulated Arc Therapy (VMAT). |
29 June 2009: Elekta |
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Varian Medical Systems acquires the assets of Houston-based IKOEmed and IKOEtech, privately-owned suppliers of software used in the planning of radiotherapy and radiosurgery treatments. |
26 June 2009: Varian |
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Frankenman International’s entire CHEX range of surgical staplers had been granted FDA approval. |
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Galichia Heart Hospital and Mobile Surgery International (MSI) have reached an agreement for Galichia to host MSI-coordinated, specialised, urologic surgical teams at its facilities in Wichita, Kansas, USA. |
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CorNova receives CE mark approval for its Valecor Platinum Coronary Stent System. |
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A patient who was running out of options in her battle against metastatic breast cancer turned to a team of doctors at the Palo Alto Medical Foundation (PAMF) that is now using the Novalis Tx platform from Varian Medical Systems and BrainLAB to attack tumours with precisely-shaped high-energy X-ray beams. |
24 June 2009: Varian |
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Abbott has received the CE Mark for its next-generation Xience Prime Everolimus Eluting Coronary Stent System for the treatment of coronary artery disease. |
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Doctors in the Netherlands have developed new ways to perform radiosurgery on benign acoustic tumours using fast and precise RapidArc radiotherapy technology from Varian Medical Systems. |
22 June 2009: Varian |
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Varian Medical Systems and Providence Health and Services (PH and S) signs a three-year agreement for Varian to provide PH and S treatment centres with advanced radiotherapy technology for treating cancer. |
19 June 2009: Varian |
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CentraState Medical Center (Freehold, New Jersey) purchases two new Elekta radiation therapy treatment systems, both with Volumetric Modulated Arc Therapy (VMAT). |
19 June 2009: Elekta |
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Herlev Hospital, to the north-west of Copenhagen, Denmark, has treated its first patient using RapidArc radiotherapy after installing eight advanced radiotherapy treatment machines from Varian Medical Systems. |
18 June 2009: Varian |
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Cook Medical completes patient enrollment in its REFORM clinical trial, which is designed to evaluate Cook's advanced Formula Balloon Expandable Stent for the treatment of renal artery stenosis, a narrowing of the renal artery that can result in hypertension, renal atrophy, and kidney failure if left untreated. |
17 June 2009: Cook |
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Through five years following initial implantation in an FDA-approved study, the Talent Abdominal Stent Graft from Medtronic, has demonstrated durable safety and effectiveness in patients with abdominal aortic aneurysms, despite having included patients with more challenging anatomies than comparable trials of similar medical devices. |
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St Jude Medical is to be the leading sponsor of the Catheter Ablation Versus Anti-arrhythmic Drug Therapy for Atrial Fibrillation (CABANA) Trial. |
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Medtronic receives US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval to market the Bryan Cervical Disc System for the treatment of single-level cervical disc disease (radiculopathy and/or myelopathy).
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Abbott launches the sixth-generation Emboshield NAV6 Embolic Protection System for use in carotid artery stenting procedures. |
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St Jude Medical completes patient implants in the company’s US pivotal clinical study of deep brain stimulation (DBS) for the symptomatic treatment of Parkinson’s disease, a neurological disorder affecting approximately 6.3 million people worldwide that progressively diminishes a person’s control over his or her movements. |
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Innovia, a privately held biomaterials-based medical device company, receives 510(k) clearance from the US Food and Drug Administration to market the InnoPort to support single port access laparoscopy. |
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Results from a new clinical study reveal that ablative therapy using BARRX Medical’s HALO system is effective for complete eradication of a pre-cancerous condition of the oesophagus called Barrett's oesophagus afflicting more than 3.3 million Americans. |
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