6/24/2010 SUNRISE, Fla., June 23 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Bioheart, Inc., (OTC Bulletin Board:BHRT.ob – News) the company that helps monitor, diagnose and treat heart failure and other cardiovascular diseases announced that Mike Tomas has been appointed President and Chief Executive Officer and member of the Board of Directors effective immediately. Dr. Karl Groth, who has been [...]

Improving the ability to efficiently process MR images used for breast cancer analysis, the AegisTM breast imaging workstation is now available with Toshiba America Medical Systems’ MR products. The Aegis workstation was developed with the distinct needs of radiologists and technologists in mind, offering flexibility and workflow efficiency. The Aegis breast workstation offers powerful real-time [...]

Medtronic, Inc. (NYSE:MDT) announced the launch of KYPHON ActivOs 10 Bone Cement with Hydroxyapatite, a polymethylmethacrylate (PMMA) bone cement containing hydroxyapatite (HA) for use in the treatment of patients with vertebral compression fractures (VCFs) who are undergoing minimally invasive surgery with KYPHON® Balloon Kyphoplasty. The launch of KYPHON ActivOs 10 Bone Cement with Hydroxyapatite in [...]

Hooray for Hollywood…Osteoarthritis (OA) suffers may be singing that tune after exciting news came out of the Arthroscopy Association of North America’s annual meeting in Hollywood, Florida, recently. Findings were announced which showed the OA prescription drug Synvisc may do more than just reduce pain. The drug might actually slow the progression of cartilage degeneration [...]

A surprising discovery about the complex make-up of our cells could lead to the development of new types of medicines, a study suggests. Scientists studying interactions between cell proteins – which enable the cells in our bodies to function – have shown that proteins communicate not by a series of simple one-to-one communications, but by [...]

Scientists in China have successfully engineered myocardial tissue (heart muscle) that is likely to share structural and functional similarities with natural myocardium according to new data presented today at the World Congress of Cardiology (WCC) Scientific Sessions in Beijing, China. Heart disease can lead to damage or death of heart muscle, which can cause a [...]

Thanks to technical progress, there are now new areas in which whole body magnetic resonance imaging (WB-MRI) can be used. In the current edition of Deutsches Arzteblatt International (Dtsch Arztebl Int 2010; 107[22]: 383-9), Gerwin Schmidt and his coauthors present a review of possible uses, together with the limits of this radiation-free diagnostic procedure. Whole [...]

Medical-devices firm creates 40 new Dublin jobs 18.06.2010 Medical-devices firm Biotrin has announced the creation of 40 high-end jobs as it invests in a new R&D project in Dublin. Biotrin, which is owned by Italian Diagnostic company Diasorin, is a leading developer and manufacturer of diagnostic platform technology. Its new project in Dublin, which is [...]

News outlets report on the pharmaceutical industry and a new requirement by the Food and Drug Administration. The Washington Post: “The Food and Drug Administration this week began posting online the results of safety evaluations of recently approved drugs and vaccines. The action follows a law enacted in 2007 that requires the agency to provide [...]

Left ventricular twist (LVT) and left ventricular untwist rates (LVUR), measures of myocardial deformation during contraction and relaxation, might be good parameters to monitor the recovery of global left ventricular (LV) function after treatment, according to new data presented at the World Congress of Cardiology (WCC) Scientific Sessions in Beijing, China. Results of a new [...]