In March, an article from the New England Journal of Medicine published a study that suggested there was a low diagnostic yield of elective coronary angiography. The article went on to say that slightly more than one third of patients without known disease who underwent elective cardiac catherization had obstructive coronary artery disease and called for better strategies to diagnose coronary artery disease.(Medical Device Daily)

The growing demand for minimally invasive procedures is leading to physicians having less space within the body to complete surgical procedures. With that reduction, there has been a stronger push for many hospitals and healthcare centers to move toward adopting robotic devices. (Medical Device Daily)

It's not hard to imagine that Cianna Medical's (Aliso Viejo, California) VP of marketing, Brian Driscoll, is probably still smiling now. (Medical Device Daily)