Market Place: An Innovative Heart Device Is Still Short of Lucrative
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The F.D.A. approved the first implantable, self-sufficient artificial heart but it is too large to fit into more than half of male patients and 80 percent of women.
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Medicare will soon fund implantable  heart devices for thousands more patients, after publication of  a landmark study finding the devices can save more lives, top  agency officials said in a medical journal on Wednesday.
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A new technique uses a magnetic field to guide potential therapies to stents in clogged blood vessels.
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A novel fabric mesh sleeve that  works like a girdle to reshape enlarged hearts showed promise  in treating patients with heart failure and will be submitted  for U.S. regulatory approval this year, according to  researchers and the company that makes the device.
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Should investors jump in or wait a bit on this maker of a robotic catheter system?
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MONTREAL - A company in Quebec has invented a device to detect the earliest signs of a heart attack and send the information to medics before the patient realizes anything is wrong.
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Not every drug invented in the laboratory is worth developing into a marketable product.
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Drug-coated stents -- tiny wire-mesh tubes used to prop open clogged heart arteries -- may not be as dangerous as earlier thought, Swedish researchers who had raised concerns over the devices said on Sunday.
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It turns out the common practice of using stents to open the heart may not be right for some patients.
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Scientists have identified a cardiac stem cell that could be the basis for new heart therapies
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NEW ORLEANS - A polyester mesh stocking pulled over the bottom of a weak heart can help it pump better, according a new study. &quot;It is sort of breakthrough technology,&quot; said Dr.
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The Natick medical devices company is using profits from its successful Taxus stent to expand into new areas. By Ross Kerber, Globe Staff | December 6, 2004.
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After three decades of research and a difficult three-year human trial, one of the most complex and expensive devices in medical history won federal approval yesterday: the first fully implantable artificial heart.
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NEW YORK  - By delivering a small shock that gets the heart beating regularly again, implantable cardioverter-defibrillator or ICDs can save the lives of patients with heart conditions.
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A device that automatically detects early symptoms of congestive heart failure has been implanted in patients in the United States this month for the first time.
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A Massachusetts company gets a humanitarian exemption to sell gadgets that act like an artificial heart, but don't last as long. They are only approved for patients close to death.
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Scientists are developing a device which could improve the lives of kidney dialysis patients.