PRODUCTS: Coronary bypass graft manufacturer wins research grants
US company CardioTech International Inc's research into the development of a synthetic coronary artery bypass graft has won grants from the US National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute. The Woburn, Massachusetts-based firm has won two Small Business Innovation Research grants from the Institute. The first grant, totalling US$325 493...

Paris conference witnesses two live procedures using cardiac implants.
Doctors in Paris, France performed two procedures before a live audience at a recent conference to demonstrate the effectiveness of cardiac implants, using the CardioSeal septal occluder with StarFlex centering system, manufactured by US company Nitinol Medical Technologies. Participants at the Endovascular Therapeutics Congress witnessed first the...

NMT Medical suffers setback. (Industry News).
Cardiac implant specialist NMT Medical Inc says it will maintain its current product strategy, despite the recent decision by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) panel not to recommend one of its products for a particular use. The panel turned down the company's StarFlex implant for...

Nitinol Medical Technologies sues for patent infringement.
Boston-based Nitinol Medical Technologies Inc (NMT Medical) is fighting a Minnesota firm for a patent infringement in the US District Court for Massachusetts. The suit claims that AGA Medical Corp's Amplatzer septal occlusion device,which competes with NMT Medical's CardioSeal(tm) septal occlusion system, violates US patent number 5 108 420,...

Study shows stents may lead to higher death rates in heart attack patients.
A worldwide study has revealed that the routine use of stents in coronary arteries following balloon angioplasty may lead to higher death rates in some heart attack patients. The study, headed by a cardiologist at William Beaumont Hospital in Michigan, USA, involved 900 patients at 62 centres...

Cooperative education in a physical therapy curriculum.
Cooperative Education in a Physical Therapy Curriculum The purposes of this article are 1) to introduce the goals, objectives, and benefits of cooperative education (also referred to as "co-op") to physical therapy students, faculty, and employers; 2) to present one co-op model as practiced at Northeastern University in Boston, Mass;...

36th AMAA Sports Medicine Symposium at the Boston Marathon[R].
Thirty six years at the Boston Marathon .... and counting. AMAA (then AMJA) or the "running Docs" were true groundbreakers. I've told the story of the birth of running medicine to many runners and they nod with understanding and a thankful gesture to the pioneers of AMJA/AMAA. ...

Changes in cardiac markers including B-natriuretic peptide in runners following the Boston Marathon.
Department of Medicine, McLean Hospital, Belmont, MA; Clinical Laboratory and Nuclear Medicine Divisions, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA ********** In contrast to nonspecific elevations of myoglobin and creatine kinase MB (CK-MB) in athletes due to exertional rhabdomyolysis of trained skeletal muscle(1,2),...

Media Alert From Residual Risk Reduction Initiative (R3i): 19:00 CST Sunday 9 November 2008.
NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana, November 7 /PRNewswire/ -- - Residual Vascular Risk Reduction: The Global Call to Action - Announcement of the Launch of the Residual Risk Reduction Initiative: R3i KEY FACTS: Residual Risk Reduction Initiative (R3i) calls for action to reduce the lipid...

2005 national convention & exposition.
We, the members of AAHPERD, touch the lives of our students daily. Our interactions with elementary, middle school, secondary, and university students each day affect their lives in the future. Our influence, our modeling of professionalism, and our teaching have a large impact on their choice for physically active,...