Electromed (New Prague, Minnesota) has received notification from the FDA that its next generation SmartVest Airway Clearance System, the model SQL, has been cleared to market.

An implant intended to address the cause of heart failure that was once implanted during an open-chest procedure in the operating room is now being delivered via a less invasive technique in the catheter lab in a European clinical trial.

Over the past 50 years people have become fairly familiar with what a traditional cardiac pacemaker is. Typically it's a device, usually described as being about the size of a stop-watch, that is implanted into a patient's chest underneath their skin, below the collarbone and connected by a wire through a vein down into their heart.