BG Medicine and Boston Scientific have entered into a research agreement to evaluate the use of galectin-3 as a screening tool for cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT) and will use data from the MADIT-CRT trial for their assessment.

Controlled Power has launched its new Model ES uninterruptible power system, which provides conditioned, continuous back-up power to critical applications.

Diversified Medical Equipment & Supplies (DMES) has launched a new Home Care Medical Supply division, with plans to service the state of California. The company has already begun servicing patients out of its Southern California office and is currently developing the Northern California location to be operational by April 1. 

ICD-10 and Y2K have been paired in catchy headlines and conversations for some time now. But is this an accurate comparison?

The health IT pendulum swings back and forth. We started with mainframe-based dumb terminals and centralized Big Iron systems with monolithic architectures and no electronic data sharing.

California Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones has decided to intervene in a "qui tam" (whistleblower) lawsuit against Bristol Myers-Squibb (BMS). The lawsuit is the largest health insurance fraud case ever pursued by a California state agency.

Among patients with three-vessel or left main coronary artery disease, there was greater relief from angina after CABG than after PCI at six and 12 months, although the extent of the benefit was small, according to the quality-of-life data that emerged from the SYNTAX trial, which was published in the March 17 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine.

The Global Harmonization Task Force (GHTF), a collaborative organization between regulators and medical imaging and health IT manufacturers from North America, Europe and Japan, has disbanded after a 19-year stint.