Dr. Thomas Fogarty fashioned his first important invention in 1961 out of a surgical catheter and the finger of a latex glove, tied together with a fly-fisherman’s knot. The idea was to punch the ...

Dr. Thomas Fogarty of Portola Valley, a legendary cardiovascular surgeon, teacher and inventor, will be honored Thursday, Sept. 21, as the “History Maker” for 2006 by the San Mateo County Historical ...

Nominations open April 2 for the 2026 Thomas J. Fogarty Innovation Prize (Fogarty Prize), a prestigious recognition honoring an innovator or team that has developed and brought to market a ...

El Camino Hospital’s Fogarty Institute for Innovation (Mountain View, Calif.). Thomas Fogarty, MD, is widely known for inventing the embolectomy catheter, or balloon catheter, which was patented in ...

March 16, 2010 — Teleflex has voluntarily recalled all lots of its Arrow custom intravenous (IV) tubing sets and accessories, as well as some arterial embolectomy catheters distributed before February ...