Pacemakers and Implantable Defibrillator... News Headlines

• New driving advisory for those with ICDs
  The Earth Times - Fri, 09 Feb 2007 03:44 EST
  
• Magnets May Pose Serious Risks For Patients With Pacemakers And ICDs
  ScienceDaily - Thu, 30 Nov 2006 04:00 EST
  
• Magnets May Pose Serious Risks For Patients With Pacemakers And ICDs
  MedicalNewsToday - Mon, 04 Dec 2006 01:00 EST
  
• Patientswith Heart ICDs Have Less Driving Restrictions
  MedicalNewsToday - Sun, 11 Feb 2007 05:00 EST
  
• Chest device helps children with deformities
  The Earth Times - Tue, 06 Mar 2007 11:25 EST
  
• Wake-up call to exporters to offer medical technology in Japan
  The Earth Times - Fri, 02 Mar 2007 12:10 EST
  
• CMS Considers Medicare Coverage Of Drug-Coated Stents, Implantable Depression Treatment
  MedicalNewsToday - Thu, 08 Feb 2007 01:00 EST
  
• Restricted driving urged for heart device patients
  Reuters - Thu, 08 Feb 2007 07:26 EST
  
• Medicare rejects Cyberonics depression device
  Reuters - Tue, 06 Feb 2007 02:32 EST
  
• Remote Device Allows Cardiologist To Monitor Patients Daily At Their Homes
  MedicalNewsToday - Tue, 06 Feb 2007 10:00 EST
  
• 'Hot Spots' No Threat for Pacemakers
  WebMD - Fri, 17 Nov 2006 11:43 EST
  
• FDA May Change Handling of Safety Issues
  Washington Post - Fri, 10 Nov 2006 12:19 EST
  
• Are One-third Of Costly Implanted Heart Devices Unnecessary?
  MedicalNewsToday - Thu, 04 Jan 2007 08:00 EST
  
• FDA to keep closer eye on medical devices
  MSNBC - Thu, 09 Nov 2006 09:02 EST
  
• Remote Device Allows Cardiologist To Monitor Patients Daily At Their Homes
  ScienceDaily - Thu, 01 Feb 2007 04:00 EST
  
• Are One-third Of Costly Implanted Heart Devices Unnecessary? New Study Suggests Yes
  ScienceDaily - Wed, 03 Jan 2007 04:00 EST
  
• Implantable Defibrillator Not for Every Heart Patient
  MedicineNet - Mon, 08 Jan 2007 07:00 EST
  
• Defibrillators Should Be Available In Ski Resorts
  MedicalNewsToday - Tue, 19 Dec 2006 07:00 EST
  
• Tissue-Engineering Electrically Conducting Tissue For The Heart
  MedicalNewsToday - Sun, 14 Jan 2007 08:00 EST
  
• Hidden Magnets Fritz Heart Devices
  WebMD - Wed, 06 Dec 2006 10:31 EST
  
• Ochsner Undergoing Clinical Study To Evaluate First-In-Class Cardiac Device
  MedicalNewsToday - Wed, 17 Jan 2007 08:00 EST
  
• Most defibrillators buried with patients: study
  Reuters - Sun, 12 Nov 2006 07:37 EST
  
• Test IDs Risk of Sudden Cardiac Death
  WebMD - Sat, 06 Jan 2007 12:37 EST
  
• Landmark Defibrillator Study Shows Benefits Of Dual-Chamber Pacing
  MedicalNewsToday - Wed, 03 Jan 2007 08:00 EST
  
• MRIs Made Safe For People With Modern Defibrillators And Pacemakers
  ScienceDaily - Fri, 22 Sep 2006 03:00 EST
  
• Angry Heart Can Kill
  WebMD - Mon, 13 Nov 2006 08:00 EST
  
• MRIs Made Safe For Patients With Modern Defibrillators And Pacemakers
  MedicalNewsToday - Fri, 22 Sep 2006 01:00 EST
  
• MRI scans safe for pacemakers?
  MSNBC - Mon, 09 Oct 2006 08:13 EST
  
• Final Recommendations For Heart Patients Published By Heart Rhythm Society
  MedicalNewsToday - Tue, 03 Oct 2006 03:00 EST
  
• New Test Predicts Best Candidates for Defibrillators
  MedicineNet - Thu, 16 Nov 2006 07:00 EST
  
• Implantable Birth Control New Option For Women
  ScienceDaily - Sat, 11 Nov 2006 04:00 EST
  
• Review Urges Limited Use Of Device To Keep Heart Transplant Hopefuls Alive
  ScienceDaily - Thu, 30 Nov 2006 04:00 EST
  
• Clinical Guidelines For Recalled Pacemakers And Implantable Cardioverter-defibrillators Developed
  MedicalNewsToday - Thu, 27 Jul 2006 04:00 EST
  
• Review Urges Limited Use Of Device To Keep Heart Transplant Hopefuls Alive
  MedicalNewsToday - Wed, 29 Nov 2006 11:00 EST
  
• Boston Scientific Announces Major Expansion Of Its LATITUDE(R) Patient Management System
  MedicalNewsToday - Tue, 03 Oct 2006 07:00 EST
  
• Implantable Device System Provides Significant Reduction In Blood Pressure
  MedicalNewsToday - Tue, 21 Nov 2006 04:00 EST
  
• Significant Reduction In Blood Pressure With Implantable Device System
  ScienceDaily - Mon, 20 Nov 2006 04:00 EST
  
• Heart Failure Rx: Pacemakers, Not Beta Blockers, May Be Best For Some Patients
  MedicalNewsToday - Sat, 11 Nov 2006 01:00 EST
  
• Neural Networking Nanotubes
  MedicalNewsToday - Mon, 13 Nov 2006 12:00 EST
  
• Test Predicts Cardiac Death Risk
  WebMD - Wed, 15 Nov 2006 11:38 EST
  
• Doctors push FDA to drop the term ‘recall’
  MSNBC - Thu, 28 Sep 2006 09:59 EST
  
• FDA May Change Handling of Safety Issues
  ABC News - Fri, 10 Nov 2006 04:26 EST
  
• Heart Failure Rx: Pacemakers, Not Beta Blockers, May Be Best For Some Patients
  ScienceDaily - Tue, 07 Nov 2006 04:00 EST
  
• FDA Announces Plans To Impose Stricter Medical Device Safety Standards
  MedicalNewsToday - Sun, 12 Nov 2006 04:00 EST
  
• FDA Update Statement On Boston Scientific/Guidant Pacemakers And Defibrillators
  MedicalNewsToday - Mon, 17 Jul 2006 06:00 EST
  
• Boston Scientific Announces Availability Of Advanced Feature In Company's Heart Failure Devices
  MedicalNewsToday - Thu, 02 Nov 2006 08:00 EST
  
• Telescope Trial Published In Ophthalmology Report On Vision And Quality Of Life In Patients With End-Stage Age-Related Macular Degeneration
  MedicalNewsToday - Thu, 02 Nov 2006 08:00 EST
  
• Electronic Chip, Interacting With The Brain, Modifies Pathways For Controlling Movement
  MedicalNewsToday - Sat, 28 Oct 2006 08:00 EST
  
• Electronic Chip, Interacting With The Brain, Modifies Pathways For Controlling Movement
  ScienceDaily - Tue, 24 Oct 2006 03:00 EST
  
• Remon Medical Announces First European Implants Of The Remon(TM) ImPressure(TM)
  MedicalNewsToday - Sat, 07 Oct 2006 07:00 EST
  
• Allergan seeks FDA OK for gastric band in youths
  Reuters - Fri, 13 Oct 2006 04:33 EST
  
• Allergan seeks FDA OK for gastric band in youths
  Reuters - Fri, 13 Oct 2006 04:33 EST
  
• Allergan seeks FDA OK for gastric band in youths
  Reuters - Fri, 13 Oct 2006 04:33 EST
  
• New Treatments For Epilepsy Use Implantable Devices
  ScienceDaily - Thu, 21 Sep 2006 03:00 EST
  
• Risk Of Sudden Cardiac Death For ICD Patients Increased By Kidney Disease
  MedicalNewsToday - Thu, 21 Sep 2006 04:00 EST
  
• St. Jude warns doctors of pacemaker software glitch
  Reuters - Fri, 13 Oct 2006 02:49 EST
  
• Fish Fatty Acids May Prevent More Sudden Deaths Than Defibrillators
  MedicalNewsToday - Sun, 03 Sep 2006 07:00 EST
  
• Federal Officials Scrutinizing Company Payments to Doctors
  New York Times - Fri, 22 Sep 2006 04:00 EST
  
• Bioengineering Could Replace Pacemakers
  MedicineNet - Wed, 30 Aug 2006 07:00 EST
  
• Otologics Announces A Clinical Research Study For A New Fully Implantable Hearing Device
  MedicalNewsToday - Wed, 06 Sep 2006 07:00 EST
  
• Implantable Cardioverter-Defibrillators Go Wrong Much More Often Than Pacemakers
  MedicalNewsToday - Wed, 26 Apr 2006 02:00 EST
  
• Heart: FDA Approves 1st Implantable Artificial Heart
  MedicineNet - Wed, 06 Sep 2006 07:00 EST
  
• Biotechnology Moved Closer To Replacing Electronic Pacemakers By UC Davis Researchers
  MedicalNewsToday - Sat, 26 Aug 2006 04:00 EST
  
• Researchers Move Biotechnology Closer To Replacing Electronic Pacemakers
  ScienceDaily - Tue, 22 Aug 2006 03:00 EST
  
• Moving Biotechnology Closer To Replacing Electronic Pacemakers
  MedicalNewsToday - Tue, 22 Aug 2006 07:00 EST
  
• Cardiologist's 'Living Chip' Changes Science Of Disease Monitoring
  ScienceDaily - Tue, 19 Sep 2006 03:00 EST
  
• FDA Safety Alerts For Automated External Defibrillators Occur Frequently
  MedicalNewsToday - Mon, 28 Aug 2006 07:00 EST
  
• Increased dietary fish oil may prevent many deaths
  Reuters - Wed, 13 Sep 2006 06:25 EST
  
• Implantable Heart Device Receives F.D.A. Approval
  New York Times - Wed, 06 Sep 2006 04:00 EST
  
• "Crabby" Compound That Skewers Bacteria Could Prevent Medical Implant Infections
  MedicalNewsToday - Tue, 12 Sep 2006 08:00 EST
  
• Market Place: An Innovative Heart Device Is Still Short of Lucrative
  New York Times - Thu, 07 Sep 2006 04:00 EST
  
• Implantable Cardioverter-defibrillators Have Higher Malfunction Rate Than Pacemakers
  MedicalNewsToday - Wed, 26 Apr 2006 09:00 EST
  
• Implantable Cardioverter-defibrillators Have Higher Malfunction Rate Than Pacemakers
  ScienceDaily - Wed, 26 Apr 2006 02:00 EST
  
• Automated External Defibrillators Are Frequently Recalled
  ScienceDaily - Mon, 14 Aug 2006 03:00 EST
  
• Artificial Heart Gets Limited FDA Approval
  Washington Post - Wed, 06 Sep 2006 04:00 EST
  
• Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy (crt) Cost-Effective For Patients With Heart Failure
  MedicalNewsToday - Tue, 12 Sep 2006 06:00 EST
  
• 'Crabby' Compound That Skewers Bacteria Could Prevent Medical Implant Infections
  ScienceDaily - Sun, 10 Sep 2006 03:00 EST
  
• Dodgy heart? Then don't ride the roller-coaster
  Reuters - Mon, 04 Sep 2006 08:19 EST
  
• Artificial Heart Approved
  WebMD - Tue, 05 Sep 2006 10:13 EST
  
• Automated External Defibrillators Are Frequently Recalled
  MedicalNewsToday - Sat, 12 Aug 2006 01:00 EST
  
• FDA Approves Implantable Artificial Heart
  MedicalNewsToday - Wed, 06 Sep 2006 05:00 EST
  
• FDA gives conditional approval for new artificial heart
  The Earth Times - Wed, 06 Sep 2006 09:48 EST
  
• Portable heart defibrillators prone to recalls
  Reuters - Tue, 08 Aug 2006 07:11 EST
  
• External Defibrillators Commonly Malfunction And Go Unreported
  MedicalNewsToday - Wed, 09 Aug 2006 02:00 EST
  
• Fish Oils May Be Lifesavers
  WebMD - Wed, 30 Aug 2006 05:25 EST
  
• FDA Approves First Totally Implanted Permanent Artificial Heart For Humanitarian Uses
  ScienceDaily - Tue, 05 Sep 2006 03:00 EST
  
• Implantable Defibrillators Save Lives But May Increase Heart Failure Risk
  ScienceDaily - Tue, 13 Jun 2006 02:00 EST
  
• US FDA backs Boston Scientific heart device steps
  Reuters - Tue, 11 Jul 2006 01:58 EST
  
• FDA Approves Implantable Contraceptive
  Washington Post - Wed, 19 Jul 2006 02:27 EST
  
• FDA OKs New Implantable Contraceptive
  WebMD - Tue, 18 Jul 2006 03:56 EST
  
• Safety concerns raised on defibrillators
  MSNBC - Tue, 08 Aug 2006 09:32 EST
  
• STAAR Surgical Announces First Myopia Treatment In China Using The Visian ICL(TM)
  MedicalNewsToday - Thu, 17 Aug 2006 07:00 EST
  
• CMS To Release Data On Outcomes For Cardiac Defibrillator Implants
  MedicalNewsToday - Wed, 12 Jul 2006 08:00 EST
  
• Newspapers Examine Advances In Health Care Technology
  MedicalNewsToday - Thu, 03 Aug 2006 08:00 EST
  
• Boston Scientific recalls heart devices over malfunctioning threat
  The Earth Times - Tue, 27 Jun 2006 10:10 EST
  
• Implanon, an Implantable Contraceptive, Is Approved
  MedicineNet - Wed, 19 Jul 2006 06:00 EST
  
• Boston Scientific Posts $4.26 Billion Loss
  New York Times - Fri, 28 Jul 2006 03:00 EST
  
• Implantable contraceptive gets FDA OK
  CNN - Tue, 18 Jul 2006 08:52 EST
  
• One In 10 Medicare Beneficiaries Experiences Complications From Implantation Of ICDs, Study Finds
  MedicalNewsToday - Wed, 28 Jun 2006 11:00 EST
  
• New Method Gauges Anxiety Linked to Implanted Defibrillators
  MedicineNet - Tue, 11 Jul 2006 06:00 EST