Cardiovascular Device Liability Week

Aastrom Biosciences, Inc. - Aastrom Biosciences provides clinical pipeline update, financial results

California Institute for Regenerative Medicine - Independent Citizens' Oversight Committee ratifies policies for stem cell research

CHRU Lille - Acute coronary syndromes management in prehospital period reduced mortality, morbidity

Herzzentrum Ludwigshafen - Acarbose reduces cardiovascular event risk in patients with impaired glucose metabolism

Osaka Police Hospital - Findings describe new data in imaging research

S. Maria di Loreto Hospital, Naples - Acute coronary syndrome, stenosis are identifiable with additive coronary flow reserve data

Speedel Pharmaceuticals Inc. - New series of renin inhibitors for hypertension reaches late-stage preclinical profiling

Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam - Restenosis in atherosclerosis coronary stent and angioplasty differ in inflammatory cell behavior

Accreditation - Health Management Corp. receives disease management accreditation

Adelaide & Meath Hospital, Dublin - Cardiovascular disease prevention guidelines of future will consider broader disease context

American Heart Association - Heart disease in women focus of widely supported federal legislation

American Medical ID - Mended Hearts, American Medical ID partner to offer medical IDs to heart patients

Angiotech Pharmaceuticals, Inc. - French government approves reimbursement for coronary stent system

Apheresis Research Institute, Cologne - Critical limb ischemia may be attenuated with Rheopheresis

Arkansas Children's Hospital - Arkansas physician develops technique for performing heart catheterizations without x-ray

Athens Medical School - In acute coronary syndrome, plaque temperature is elevated in nonculprit atheromatous lesions

Auckland City Hospital - Coronary bifurcation strategies using drug-eluting stents are bench-tested

Bar Ilan University, Ramat Gan - Classic Kaposi sarcoma risk factors identified

Baylor College of Medicine, Houston - Hyperhomocysteinemia inhibits postinjury re-endothelialization in mice

Baylor College of Medicine, Houston - Researchers report details of new studies and findings in the area of stents

Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva - Adding furosemide to hypertonic saline decreases brain water content without increasing osmolality

Boston Scientific International - Stent system studies show positive results in small vessels

Boston University - Atherosclerosis accelerated by Porphyromonas gingivalis was focus of review

Boston University - Periodontitis inflammation and bone loss were reduced by Resolvin E1

Brown University, Providence - Atherosclerosis and progeria linked to mutant protein

Cambridge Heart, Inc. - Cambridge Heart reports 21.9% decrease in revenue

Capital University of Medical Sciences, Beijing - Cerebral hypoxic preconditioning could result from phosphorylation of element binding protein

Cardiac Science Corp. - Cardiac Science strengthens senior executive team

Cardiac Science Corp. - U.S. FDA grants 510(k) clearance for new "crash cart" defibrillator

Cardiff University - Arrhythmogenic defects reveal mechanism of Ca²⁺ release channel dysfunction

Cardinal Health, Inc. - Pharmaceutical, hospital supply company launches partner program

CardioDynamics - CardioDynamics reports 21% decrease in sales

Cardiogenesis Corp. - Successful clinical application of PHOENIX TMR plus stem-cell delivery system announced

CardioTech International, Inc. - CardioTech International reports 3.9% increase in revenue

CardioVascular BioTherapeutics, Inc. - Spelman initiates coverage of biopharmaceutical company CardioVascular BioTherapeutics

Catalan Renal Registry, Barcelona - Obesity and weight gain is common following renal transplantation

Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, Campobasso - Locally advanced cervical cancer treated by preoperative chemoradiotherapy

Cedars Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles - Coronary artery disease assessment and nuclear cardiology, cardiac CT, and MRI roles are examined

Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles - Combined supine-prone quantification show improved obstructive CAD recognition

Charité School of Medicine, Berlin - IgM and IgG ELISAs highly sensitive for human Andes hantavirus detection

Charles University Hospital, Prague - Coronary artery disease risk was underestimated by Framingham risk function

Chemokine Therapeutics Corp. - Biotech company supplies NCI with CTCE-9908 to research primary effusion lymphoma

Chemokine Therapeutics Corp. - Dana-Farber to investigate CTCE-9908 in a preclinical study of human brain cancer

Chiba Cardiovascular Center - Arrhythmia, sudden death after conduit repair may be reduced by earlier primary operation

Children's Hospital of Philadelphia - Chromosome rearrangements not as random as believed

Cleveland Clinic Foundation - Cardiovascular risk factors are undertreated and undercontrolled in most of the world

Cleveland Clinic Foundation - Congestive heart failure treated with DexAide RVAD in animal tests

Cleveland Clinic Foundation - Research add new data to heart failure body of knowledge

Collaborations - Medicare-initiated quality improvement program spawns six-state surgical care collaboration

Columbia University, New York - Aortic valve calcification severity, location are associated with increased pressure gradient

Columbia University, New York - Cardiovascular risk may be increased by insulin resistance in metabolic syndrome

Columbia University, New York - Rimonabant shows modest benefit in reducing weight, improving HDL levels

Conor Medsystems, Inc. - Vascular drug-delivery company reports Q4 net loss of $20.1 million

Contraception - Ortho Evra studies provide important new clinical and safety information

Cornell University, Ithaca - Hypertension can be predicted by metabolic variations, lipid profiles, and blood pressure

Dartmouth College, Lebanon - Percutaneous coronary intervention may be linked to vascular complications in women

Decision Resources, Inc. - Statins to remain top coronary heart disease treatment though market to decline, study shows

Deutsch Herzzentrum Munchen - Implantable cardioverter defibrillator use in children is feasible with psychological monitoring

Duke University Medical Center, Durham - In non-ST-segment elevation acute coronary syndromes, elevated troponin signals acute risk

Eberhard-Karls-University, Tubingen - Systemic atherosclerotic disease can be assessed quickly with whole-body imaging

Edwards Lifesciences Corp. - Dr. Barbara McNeil elected to board of cardiovascular-disease-focused company

Ekos Corporation - Ischemic stroke study clinical data points to promising drug delivery treatments

Emory University, Atlanta - Cardiovascular disease-associated superoxide stress was modulated by vascular Menkes ATPase

Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam - Cardiovascular data imaging gains improved technique for center lumen line definition

Erasmus Medical University, Rotterdam - Coronary artery disease "polypill" cost may be prohibitive unless carefully targeted

Ewha Womans University, Seoul - Cancer, cardiovascular disease are potential targets of 2-Cys peroxiredoxins

F. Hoffmann La Roche Ltd. - MRI skeletal muscle perfusion testing with noninvasive single-voxel FAIR promising

Faronics - Deep Freeze protects the heart of Volcano Corp.'s medical devices

Forbes Medi-Tech, Inc. - Forbes Medi-Tech announces Pharmavite contract renewal

Foundation Puigvert, Barcelona - Renal transplant recipients with altered glycemia show higher BMI and Hb1Ac

FoxHollow Technologies, Inc. - Plaque excision shown to lower amputation rate in patients with critical limb ischemia

Friedrich Schiller University, Jena - Recent findings in angiology described

Fukuoka University - Recent findings illuminate research in hypertension