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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It offers impressive cash flow but may not have enough opportunities to reinvest it in the business.
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A tiny tent-like device implanted into the heart appears to block strokes caused by a common irregular heartbeat, sealing off a spot where dangerous blood clots form, German and U.S. researchers reported Wednesday...
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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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A new implantable device can extract stem cells for therapeutic transplant or program cancer cells to die.
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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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Should investors jump in or wait a bit on this maker of a robotic catheter system?
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Device is designed for home users, but its price tag is steep.
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The F.D.A.'s oversight of a defibrillator may reveal shortcomings in its regulation of medical devices.
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Drug-releasing stents used widely to keep clogged heart arteries open may increase the risk of potentially dangerous blood clots, but there is no conclusive evidence that the devices boost the likelihood of having a heart attack or dying if used as recommended, an expert panel said yesterday.
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Given medical advances, it&#39;s no wonder that heart disease patients expect doctors to address coronary problems with drugs, medical devices or both.
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Experts say the new experimental fabric device that helps weak hearts pump more efficiently could fill a gap for people who are not helped by drugs or pacemakers.
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A little-known Food and Drug program is testing the latest medical technology to determine how safe and useful it can be.    One cutting-edge experiment is designed to see if injecting certain drugs directly into diseased arteries works better than commonly used stents in keeping arteries clear...
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Building an artificial heart has proved tougher than landing men on the moon, but a new study shows that a heart once considered a flop can prolong the lives of desperately sick patients until a donor heart is found.
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The lead drug gains another use -- just not the one investors expected.
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A Massachusetts company received federal approval Tuesday to sell up to 4,000 artificial hearts a year, though the number of devices implanted annually will likely be far smaller.
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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.