CardioMEMS ran into a regulatory roadblock last week, when an FDA advisory panel recommended that the agency not approve the company's Champion HF Monitoring System. The device is said to be the first ...

Chicago-based Endotronix, which makes devices to manage heart failure and remotely monitor cardiac patients, has raised $32 million in new funding. Investors included BioVentures, SV Life Sciences, ...

Introduction: Management of congestive heart failure is a serious public health problem. The use of implantable hemodynamic monitors (IHMs) may assist in this management by providing continuous ...

The Implantable Loop Recorders (ILR) market offers opportunities through enhanced long-term cardiac monitoring over traditional methods, global and regional trends analysis, regulatory insights, and ...

July 14--A device a fraction of an inch long is providing George Saenz with a peace of mind he has never had before. Three weeks ago, the 67-year-old independent insurance agent had the Medtronic ...

Implantable cardiac monitors (ICMs) continuously monitor the patient's electrocardiogram and perform real-time analysis of the heart rhythm, for up to 36 months. The current clinical use of ICMs ...

A new study reveals male endurance athletes over 50 may face increased heart rhythm risks during exercise, especially those ...

When children with heart failure await transplants, they typically stay at the hospital for months to years, tethered to a bulky blood-pumping device. But an implantable heart pump could allow them to ...

The EU-funded project IV-Lab aims to develop a multi-sensing device that can be implanted into blood vessels, such as peripheral veins or arteries, to monitor various body parameters and the overall ...

The study, published earlier this month in the European Journal of Preventive Cardiology, found that some endurance athletes ...