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Interventional device developer Boston Scientific of Natick, MA, has received the European CE Mark for its Liberte coronary stent.

Compact-ultrasound developer SonoSite has begun deliveries of new features for vascular and general imaging applications for its Titan 2.1 mobile ultrasound system.

Siemens Medical Solutions and the University of Michigan Health System (UMHS) are planning to establish a five-year medical imaging and information technology services alliance for a new $200 million cardiovascular center in Ann Arbor, MI.

Cardiac image management firm CardioNow has installed its image archiving and teleradiology system at the University of Florida Cardiovascular Imaging Core Laboratories, which is affiliated with the Cardiovascular Center at Shands Jacksonville.

Interventional device developer Cook has received a Food and Drug Administration investigational device exemption (IDE) to begin a clinical investigation of its Zenith TX2 endovascular graft for thoracic aortic aneurysms (TAA).

Interventional device developer Boston Scientific of Natick, MA, reports that the Circulatory System Devices Panel has unanimously recommended U. S. Food and Drug Administration approval for the firm’s Taxus Express2 paclitaxel-eluting coronary stent system

Multimodality developer Philips Medical Systems has entered into a ten-year multimillion-dollar strategic agreement with Inova Health System, a not-for-profit healthcare system based in Fairfax, VA, according to Bothell, WA-based Philips.