BOSTON – Cardiologists have sought for decades to find a way to improve cardiac contractility, but progress has been slow in coming. The contractility problem for some heart failure patients may soon ease, however, thanks to a new study of the Optimizer device by Impulse Dynamics USA Inc. of Orange, N.J., which not only scored well for safety, but which also improved exercise capacity and reduced mortality in patients with stages III and IV heart failure. Read More