The Latest Cardiac and Vascular News
REDWOOD CITY, Calif., Jan. 03, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Avinger(NASDAQ:AVGR), a leading developer of innovative treatments for peripheral artery disease (PAD), announced that Arne Schwindt, M.D., a vascular surgeon at St. Franziskus Hospital in Münster, Germany, has successfully treated the first seven patients with the next generation Pantheris Lumivascular atherectomy system. […]
Santa Monica, CA, Jan. 03, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — BioSig Technologies(OTCQB: BSGM), a medical device company developing a proprietary biomedical signal processing platform designed to address an unmet technology need for the $4.6 billion electrophysiology (EP) marketplace, today announced that Mr. Steven (Steve) Chaussy will be joining the company to serve in […]
DURHAM, N.C.–(BUSINESS WIRE)– Tryton Medical, Inc., the leading developer of stents designed to definitively treat bifurcation lesions, today announced that the company has appointed Carl J. St. Bernard as president and chief executive officer. St. Bernard has a long track record growing new and established businesses in pharmaceuticals, consumer health products, […]
The J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference is held every year in early January, and this year it will be Jan. 8-11 in San Francisco, as usual. What isn’t quite as usual, and has some journalists and investors concerned, is a change in policy that limits media coverage. The meeting is a major event in […]
CHICAGO, Jan. 02, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — BIOLIFE4D, a biotech pioneer leveraging advances in tissue engineering to 3D print human organs viable for transplant, today announced it has named Dr. Ravi Birla as its Chief Science Officer. Birla previously served as the Associate Director of the Department of Stem Cell Engineering […]
MILFORD, Mass.–(BUSINESS WIRE)– RenalGuard Solutions, Inc., a medical device company focused on innovative technologies for the cardiac and vascular markets, today reported positive results from a first-in-man feasibility study focusing on a novel use of the RenalGuard System® to manage fluids during diuretic therapy in congestive heart failure patients suffering from fluid […]
NEW YORK–(BUSINESS WIRE)– PAVmed (Nasdaq: PAVM, PAVMW) (the “Company”), a highly differentiated, multiproduct medical device company, today announced that it intends to temporarily reduce the exercise price of the Company’s outstanding Series W Warrants (Nasdaq: PAVMW, the “Warrants”) to $2.50 per share. The Company intends to file tender offer materials (the “Offer”) […]
FRANKLIN LAKES, N.J., Dec. 22, 2017 /PRNewswire/ — BD (Becton, Dickinson and Company) (NYSE: BDX), a leading global medical technology company, issued the following statement regarding today’s clearance by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) for BD to acquire C. R. Bard (NYSE: BCR), contingent on the divestitures of BD’s soft tissue core […]
SAO PAULO, Dec. 22, 2017 /PRNewswire/ — On December 19, 2017, local time, 4 clinical implantations of transcatheter pulmonary valve VenusP-Valve were successfully completed in Brazil by Professor Carlos Pedra from Dante Pazzanese Institute of Cardiovascular Technology in Sao Paulo, Brazil. After Chile and Argentina, Brazil becomes the third Latin American country to apply the valve of Venus Medtech (Hangzhou) Inc. It also marks […]
Privately-held Corvia Medical said its investigational transcatheter structural heart device to treat heart failure has demonstrated success in reducing exercise pulmonary capillary wedge pressure in trial patients. This morning, the company said its device, called the Interatrial Shunt Device (IASD) significantly reduced PCWP at one month compared to control. Data was presented at the 2017 […]
