The Latest Cardiac and Vascular News
Shares of Merit Medical Systems have jumped more than 9 percent this morning after the company announced it plunked down $100 million for two product lines belonging to Becton, Dickinson and Company (BD). BD is selling the assets in connection with its acquisition of C.R. Bard Inc.(Bard). Merit will acquire soft tissue core needle biopsy products currently […]
VANCOUVER, Nov. 14, 2017 /PRNewswire/ – Neovasc Inc. (NASDAQ, TSX: NVCN) today announced financial results for the third quarter ended September 30, 2017 (all figures in U.S. dollars unless otherwise indicated). “From a product perspective, our two lead devices continue to perform well, quarter after quarter; patient after patient,” commented Neovasc CEO, […]
SILVER SPRING, Md.–(BUSINESS WIRE)– Aziyo Biologics, a fully integrated regenerative medicine company, today announced positive results from PERFORM, a prospective, post-market study conducted in patients undergoing femoral arterial reconstruction using the company’s biologic extracellular matrix (ECM) scaffold. There were no device-related adverse events or infections and primary patency was maintained in 97.6% of […]
KIRKLAND, Wash.–(BUSINESS WIRE)– Cardiac Insight, a U.S. developer of wearable medical devices and diagnostic software, announced today that the company has secured its first cardiology customers for its wearable ECG sensor device, Cardea SOLO, in Texas and several other states. Early physician and patient experiences with Cardea SOLO are confirming the […]
SUNNYVALE, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–EBR Systems, Inc., developer of the world’s first and only wireless cardiac pacing system for heart failure, has raised $50 million to conduct the global SOLVE-CRT study. The financing was led by Australian private equity firms M.H. Carnegie & Co. and Brandon Capital Partners and included participation by […]
EINDHOVEN, The Netherlands and ZURICH, November 15, 2017 /PRNewswire/ — Xeltis, a clinical-stage medical device company pioneering a restorative approach in heart valve therapy, today announced the completion of an oversubscribed EUR45 million ($52 million) Series C financing. The funding round was led by a global strategic investor with participation […]
By Ken Dropiewski, Prime-Core Executive Search (ken@prime-core.com) When you think of precision medicine there are a few things that naturally come to mind: drugs tailored to genetics and certain other genome-based therapies. Medical devices are probably not your first thought. Earlier this year, Medtronic received approval for MR-Conditional Quadripolar Cardiac […]
ANAHEIM, Calif., Nov. 14, 2017 /PRNewswire/ — Corvia Medical, Inc., a privately-held medical device company that developed a first-in-class transcatheter structural heart device to treat heart failure, today announced that it has enrolled the first patients in its global multicenter trial (REDUCE LAP-HF II) of the Interatrial Shunt Device (IASD) […]
Santa Monica, CA, Nov. 14, 2017 (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 the Company has engaged Tiffini Wittwer as Chief Regulatory and Compliance Officer […]
Beleaguered Avinger, Inc. is slashing more jobs. In its latest financial disclosure, Avinger reported a 61 percent decline in sales since the same time last year and would continue its strategic reorganization to save cash. The company said headcount has been reduced to 73 employees as of Oct. 15. That number includes […]
