ST. PAUL, Minn. & ATLANTA–(BUSINESS WIRE)– St. Jude Medical, Inc. (NYSE:STJ), a global medical device company, and CardioMEMS, today announced U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval of the CardioMEMS™ HF System. The CardioMEMS HF System is the first and only FDA-approved heart failure (HF) monitoring device that has been proven to significantly reduce HF hospital admissions when used by physicians to manage heart failure.