Heart monitoring company CardioNet (NASDAQ:BEAT),which diagnoses and monitors irregular heartbeats, has acquired another cardiac monitoring company in a deal valued at more than $6 million.The acquisition target, Ohio-based ECG Scanning & Medical Services, will enable the Philadelphia, Pennsylvania-based company to expand its customer base across the Midwest, a company statement said.AdvertisementCardioNet President and Chief Executive [...]

Current medical news from today, including study links Y chromosome to heart disease in men, a list of the major players in biopharma, and debating putting Plan B in a vending machine.

It was supposed to be a closed meeting attended by doctors who had a large amount of experience dealing with patients with St. Jude Medical’s Riata leads, a defibrillator lead that recently garnered an FDA Class I advisory (recall) status due to it’s high failure rate. Only 55 doctors and a few industry personnel were [...]

A review of life science current events reported by MedCity News this week:10 cardiologists to follow on Twitter. Some notable cardiologists have embraced Twitter ’ one even wrote a useful guide to help cardiologists get started on it ’ and certainly more figure to adopt the technology as it becomes more ubiquitous in the future. [...]

InterValve, a medical device company in Minnetonka, Minnesota, is looking to close its series A round of funding soon in order to advance its proprietary aortic valvuloplasty balloon to clinical trials later this year.CEO Mark Ungs said the company hopes to begin testing its transcatheter aortic valve device in humans this year and submit it [...]

The cardiology profession hasn’t exactly embraced Twitter.When the American Heart Association conducted an informal poll of a select group of members, only two of about 75 respondents said they used Twitter. And those two reported using the popular 140-character social networking service “infrequently,” according to a spokeswoman for the organization.var page_count = “off”; [...]

Johnson & Johnson (NYSE:JNJ) has lost a court battle over its drug-coated stent patents after a New Jersey federal judge ruled that stents marketed by Boston Scientific (NYSE:BSX) Abbott Laboratories (NYSE:ABT) and Medtronic (NYSE:MDT) had not infringed stent patents held by the New Brunswick, New Jersey company.Despite the ruling, a Johnson & Johnson spokeswoman said [...]

Digital health incubator Rock Health is hosting the 2012 Health Innovation Summit this week in San Francisco. In a series of posts, I’ll be profiling some of the interesting new health companies represented at the summit. Cardiio was selected as one of 15 companies in the Rock Health spring 2012 class. What they came up with was a platform that quickly delivers a consumer’s heart rate by using a camera to detect the miniscule changes in light that bounce of the face, indicating pulse.

A new era of digital healthcare will make medicine more precise and participatory, but we certainly aren’t there yet, said prominent cardiologist Dr. Eric Topol.Topol has been making the rounds recently, promoting his new book, The Creative Destruction of Medicine, and recently spoke with HealthLeaders Media about the book.var page_count = “off”; [...]

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