Coronary Artery Disease News and Research

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Zogenix receives 2011 DDP Industry Achievement Award for SUMAVEL DosePro

Zogenix, Inc. today announced that it has received the 2011 Drug Delivery Partnerships™ ("DDP") Innovation Award in the Industry Achievement category for SUMAVEL DosePro (sumatriptan injection) Needle-free Delivery System.

9 Feb 2011

Blood vessels for heart bypass could be available ‘off-the-shelf’ soon: Study

Scientists from USA have developed a method to produce a ready made supply of blood vessels for use in heart bypass surgery. A study on baboons and dogs reported in journal Science Translational Medicine suggests vessels could be stored for up to a year and used by any patient. These vessels have been grown earlier from a patient’s own cells, but this takes several months.

6 Feb 2011

Cholesterol efflux capacity may protect against heart disease: Study

The discovery that high levels of high-density lipoprotein cholesterol are associated with reduced risk of cardiovascular disease has fostered intensive research to modify HDL levels for therapeutic gain. However, recent findings have called into question the notion that pharmacologic increases in HDL cholesterol levels are necessarily beneficial to patients.

4 Feb 2011

Consumer Reports Health unveils ratings of nine common screenings for heart disease

Consumer Reports Health unveils Ratings of nine common screenings for heart disease based on systematic review of evidence; some screenings work well while others deemed not worth the risk for healthy individuals

3 Feb 2011

Abbott receives US regulatory clearance and Japanese approval for TREK Coronary Dilatation Catheters

Abbott today announced it has received regulatory clearance in the United States and approval in Japan for its TREK and MINI-TREK Coronary Dilatation Catheters for the treatment of coronary artery disease. The TREK system is used in angioplasty procedures and is designed to enable interventional cardiologists to open patients' narrowed coronary arteries. The TREK system received CE Mark and was launched in Europe in May 2010.

1 Feb 2011

Cappella initiates multi-center Italian Sideguard open label clinical study

Cappella Medical Devices announces initiation of the multi-center Italian Sideguard® open label clinical study. The Principal Investigator (PI) of the study, Dr. Giuseppe Massimo Sangiorgi at the Policlinico di Modena - University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, in Modena, Italy stated, "The side branch ostium anatomy requires a unique technology solution to effectively manage and optimize treatment.

1 Feb 2011

ESC believes stress management programmes may reduce recurrent CVD events

Following the results of a study published in the Archives of Internal Medicine showing that cognitive behavioural therapy produces a 41% reduction in fatal and non-fatal first recurrent CVD events, the European Society of Cardiology believes stress management programmes should be made more widely available across Europe for patients with coronary artery disease.

29 Jan 2011

Single DNA variation linked to decreased risk of coronary disease in African-Americans

A team of scientists at Johns Hopkins and elsewhere has discovered that a single alteration in the genetic code of about a fourth of African-Americans helps protect them from coronary artery disease, the leading cause of death in Americans of all races.

28 Jan 2011

Cardiac stem cell therapy can rebuild damaged heart in children

Visionaries in the field of cardiac therapeutics have long looked to the future when a damaged heart could be rebuilt or repaired by using one's own heart cells. A study published in the February issue of Circulation, a scientific journal of the American Heart Association, shows that heart stem cells from children with congenital heart disease were able to rebuild the damaged heart in the laboratory.

27 Jan 2011

Study finds surgery greatly reduces daytime sleepiness in sleep apnea patients

Patients with obstructive sleep apnea who undergo surgery to improve their breathing get a better night's sleep and therefore are less drowsy during the day, according to a new study from Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit.

27 Jan 2011

FDA Advisory Committee recommends expanded indication for Abbott's RX ACCULINK Carotid Stent System

Abbott today announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Circulatory System Devices Panel of the Medical Devices Advisory Committee voted that, for symptomatic and asymptomatic carotid artery disease patients at standard surgical risk, there is reasonable assurance that the benefits of the RX ACCULINK® Carotid Stent System outweigh its risks (Yes: 7, No: 3, Abstain: 1).

27 Jan 2011

Tryton initiates enrollment in Side Branch Stent System study

Tryton Medical, Inc., the leading developer of stents designed to definitively treat bifurcation lesions, today announced that the first U.S. patient has been enrolled in the pivotal trial to evaluate the Tryton Side Branch Stent System™ for the treatment of coronary artery disease.

27 Jan 2011

Boston Scientific initiates enrollment in comparative Chinese study of PROMUS Element Everolimus-Eluting Stent

Boston Scientific Corporation today announced the beginning of patient enrollment in the PLATINUM China clinical trial, which is designed to evaluate the safety and effectiveness of the Company's PROMUS Element™ Everolimus-Eluting Platinum Chromium Coronary Stent compared to the TAXUS® Liberte® Paclitaxel-Eluting Coronary Stent in the treatment of patients with a single de novo atherosclerotic lesion.

27 Jan 2011

Abbott fourth quarter worldwide sales increase 13.4% to nearly $10 billion

Abbott today announced financial results for the fourth quarter ended Dec. 31, 2010.

27 Jan 2011

NYSE Amex accepts Cardium's exchange listing compliance plan

Cardium Therapeutics reported that its exchange listing compliance plan submitted on December 2, 2010 has been accepted by the NYSE Amex LLC.

24 Jan 2011

Grayscale IVUS and VH IVUS tissue characterization software help accurate assessment of blockage risk

Volcano Corporation today announced the publication of results from the PROSPECT (Providing Regional Observations to Study Predictors of Events in the Coronary Tree) study in The New England Journal of Medicine showing that grayscale intravascular ultrasound (IVUS) and Volcano's proprietary VH® IVUS tissue characterization software enable physicians to more accurately assess the risk of individual blockages than the use of the current standard-of-care-- angiographic imaging-- alone.

20 Jan 2011

Message of health benefits of moderate drinking are hazardous and extremely dangerous

A Letter to the Editor entitled "What should we advise about alcohol consumption?" was recently published by Maurizio Ponz de Leon in Intern Emerg Med.1 Dr. de Leon argues that the message of health benefits of moderate drinking "seems to me hazardous and extremely dangerous to diffuse in the general population."

20 Jan 2011

Revolution R Enterprise implemented at CardioDX

Revolution Analytics, the leading provider of commercial software and support for the popular open source R statistics language, today announced the successful implementation of its signature product, Revolution R Enterprise, by biostatisticians at CardioDX, a genomic research firm.

19 Jan 2011

Uric acid levels linked to severe osteoarthritis

The amount of uric acid in one's joints may increase the likelihood of severe osteoarthritis, the most common form of arthritis worldwide, according to researchers at Duke University Medical Center.

19 Jan 2011

Cholesterol efflux capacity is more closely associated with protection against heart disease: Study

The discovery that high levels of high-density lipoprotein cholesterol is associated with reduced risk of cardiovascular disease has fostered intensive research to modify HDL levels for therapeutic gain. However, recent findings have called into question the notion that pharmacologic increases in HDL cholesterol levels are necessarily beneficial to patients.

13 Jan 2011

Coronary Artery Disease News and Research

Latest Coronary Artery Disease News and Research

Zogenix receives 2011 DDP Industry Achievement Award for SUMAVEL DosePro

Blood vessels for heart bypass could be available ‘off-the-shelf’ soon: Study

Cholesterol efflux capacity may protect against heart disease: Study

Consumer Reports Health unveils ratings of nine common screenings for heart disease

Abbott receives US regulatory clearance and Japanese approval for TREK Coronary Dilatation Catheters

Cappella initiates multi-center Italian Sideguard open label clinical study

ESC believes stress management programmes may reduce recurrent CVD events

Single DNA variation linked to decreased risk of coronary disease in African-Americans

Cardiac stem cell therapy can rebuild damaged heart in children

Study finds surgery greatly reduces daytime sleepiness in sleep apnea patients

FDA Advisory Committee recommends expanded indication for Abbott's RX ACCULINK Carotid Stent System

Tryton initiates enrollment in Side Branch Stent System study

Boston Scientific initiates enrollment in comparative Chinese study of PROMUS Element Everolimus-Eluting Stent

Abbott fourth quarter worldwide sales increase 13.4% to nearly $10 billion

NYSE Amex accepts Cardium's exchange listing compliance plan

Grayscale IVUS and VH IVUS tissue characterization software help accurate assessment of blockage risk

Message of health benefits of moderate drinking are hazardous and extremely dangerous

Revolution R Enterprise implemented at CardioDX

Uric acid levels linked to severe osteoarthritis

Cholesterol efflux capacity is more closely associated with protection against heart disease: Study

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