The Latest Cardiac and Vascular News
KIRKLAND, Wash.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Cardiac Insight, Inc., a U.S. developer of wearable medical devices and diagnostic software, announced today that its FDA-approved Cardea SOLO™ ECG monitoring system is available for diagnosing atrial fibrillation following cardiac ablation. The company’s cardiac monitoring device supports a recent formal consensus statement by experts from 11 leading […]
IRVINE, Calif., July 11, 2017 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — MRI Interventions, Inc. (OTCQB:MRIC) (the “Company”), today announced preliminary results for its second quarter ended June 30, 2017. Reflecting accelerating utilization and an increasing number of ClearPoint sites, total revenue for the three months ended June 30, 2017 was $2.0 million, compared […]
SAN FRANCISCO, July 10, 2017 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — iRhythm Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ:IRTC), a leading digital health care solutions company focused on the advancement of cardiac care announced a collaboration with the Stanford Machine Learning Group that has resulted in the development of a deep learning algorithm capable of expert level […]
Minneapolis, MN, July 11, 2017 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — BioSig Technologies, Inc. (OTCQB: BSGM), a medical device company developing a proprietary platform designed to address an unmet technology need within the $4+ billion electrophysiology (EP) marketplace, today announced that the Company has engaged Health Research International (HRI) to compile essential market […]
CARLSBAD, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Following the €1.9 billion ($2.16 billion) purchase of The Spectranetics Corporation (NASDAQ:SPNC) by Royal Philips (NYSE:PHG), Ra Medical Systems, makers of cardiovascular and dermatology catheters and excimer lasers, today announced the appointment of two new members to the Company’s Board of Directors. This also follows the recent FDA market […]
By Ken Dropkiewski (ken@prime-core.com) While no hard statistics exist as to the exact number of motor vehicle accidents and concurrent heart attacks, the article 5 Facts About the Trend of Heart Attacks While Driving, makes a compelling case for why more people are suffering acute MIs while driving. – An aging population […]
Evity 8 HF-T QP Offers a Host of Functions Including LV VectorOpt, RF Telemetry, MRI AutoDetect and BIOTRONIK Home Monitoring TOKYO, Japan and BERLIN, Germany, July 10, 2017 – BIOTRONIK has announced the launch of its Evity cardiac resynchronization therapy pacemaker (CRT-P) in the Japanese market. It is the company’s highest performing […]
PARIS–(BUSINESS WIRE)–LimFlow SA today announced enrollment of the first patient in the U.S. feasibility study of the LimFlow Percutaneous Deep Vein Arterialization (pDVA) System, a novel, purely percutaneous device for the treatment of end-stage critical limb ischemia (CLI) when all other revascularization efforts have been exhausted. The first patient was treated […]
Stent coated with Viagra may help prevent blood clots By AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION NEWS Coating heart stents with the erectile dysfunction drug Viagra, known by the generic name sildenafil, could one day reduce blood clots and re-narrowing of arteries, according to new research. Stents prop open heart arteries to help […]
DUBLIN – July 10, 2017 – Medtronic plc (NYSE: MDT) today announced the expanded U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval of the self-expanding CoreValve(TM) Evolut(TM) transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) platform to include patients with symptomatic severe aortic stenosis who are at an intermediate risk for open-heart surgery. With hemodynamic […]
