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Medtronic Demonstrates Positive Results On First Pacemaker Designed For Use With MRI
New data announced at Heart Rhythm 2009, the annual congress of the Heart Rhythm Society, demonstrate that patients implanted with the investigational EnRhythm MRI™ SureScan™ pacing system experienced no complications related to the use of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). Sponsored by Medtronic, Inc. (NYSE: MDT), the study confirms that the pacing system can help cardiac device patients benefit from the use of MRI, a critical imaging technique commonly used in disease diagnosis. Currently, due to safety considerations, there are no implantable pacemakers or defibrillators approved for use with MRI in the United States. Commercially released in Europe last fall, the EnRhythm MRI SureScan system is the world"s first and only pacing system designed and approved for use with MRI.

FDA Classifies Medtronic Voluntary February Recall For Intrepid™ Intervertebral Body Fusion Device As Class II
Medtronic, Inc. (NYSE: MDT) announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has classified its voluntary recall action of the Intrepid™ Intervertebral Body Fusion Device as a Class II recall. Medtronic initiated a voluntary recall of the product on February 6, 2009, and communicated the risk to physicians and hospitals. As of the date of this news release, all unused product has been retrieved and Medtronic has received confirmation of notification from all affected physicians and hospitals.
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Potential Key To Maintaining Embryonic Stem Cells In Lab
In a new study that could transform embryonic stem cell (ES cell) research, scientists at UT Southwestern Medical Center have discovered why mouse ES cells can be easily grown in a laboratory while other mammalian ES cells are difficult, if not impossible, to maintain.
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Moderates Wooed In House As They Cross Party Lines To Shape Health Legislation

As attempts to gain support for health reform across party lines and from stoic interest groups like the American Medical Association continue, House leaders are seeking to rally centrist members of their own caucus, CQ Politics reports. "House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, whose liberal committee leaders will write health care legislation is attempting to engage moderate Democrats whose votes she will need on the floor." Pelosi tapped Rep. John Yarmuth, D-Ky., a former Republican, as her health care communications adviser, and has drawn Reps. Dennis Cardoza, D-Calif., a member of the fiscally conservative Democratic Blue Dogs, and Bruce Braley, D-Iowa, into her health care inner circle. Pelosi"s past congressional allies have included primarily liberals like Energy and Commerce Chairman Henry Waxman, D-Calif., and Ways and Means Chairman Charles Rangel, D-N.Y., whose committees will write the reform bill (Ota, 6/17). Meanwhile, "members of the centrist GOP "Tuesday Group," the New Democrat Coalition and the 52-member Blue Dog Coalition have been discussing both the policies and politics of moving their middle-of-the-road ideas in a body of Congress usually dominated by liberal or conservative ideology," the Hill reports. All are "wary" of leading proposals circulating their respective caucuses. Blue Dogs are likely to oppose a government-run insurance option favored by the liberals leadership. The GOP centrists released their own proposal in advance of the expected unveiling of their higher-ups" plan (Hooper, 6/16). In the Senate, key committee leaders are "conceding the unlikelihood of attracting significant Republican support for the legislation," Roll Call reports. "As important as bipartisanship is - and it"s very important - it"s not as critical as helping the millions of Americans who have no health insurance," Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid told reporters. Members of the two committees shaping the reform legislation echoed that point, Roll Call reports, and appeared uncertain of how much GOP support they could gain (Drucker 6/17). This information was reprinted from kaiserhealthnews.org with kind permission from the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation. You can view the entire Kaiser Daily Health Policy Report, search the archives and sign up for email delivery at kaiserhealthnews.org. © Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation. All rights reserved.


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