Author: Ken Dropiewski

iRhythm Technologies Announces NHS Funding After Winning Artificial Intelligence in Health and Care Award

Company selected from over 500 applicants in first-of-its-kind Digital Health Technologies Pilot SAN FRANCISCO and LONDON, Sept. 08, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — iRhythm Technologies (NASDAQ: IRTC), a leading digital health care solutions company focused on the advancement of cardiac care, has today been named a winner of the Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Health and Care Award. […]

Acutus Medical Announces Pulse Field Ablation Program and Initial Pre-Clinical Results

Breakthrough Technology, Combined with Acutus Non-Contact Mapping May Enable Rapid, Safe and Effective Arrhythmia Treatment CARLSBAD, Calif., Sept. 08, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Acutus Medical, Inc. (NASDAQ:AFIB) today announced pre-clinical experimental results of a novel diagnostic and therapeutic workflow utilizing the AcQMap® System along with tissue-selective, non-thermal pulse field ablation (PFA) via […]

Arrowhead Pharmaceuticals Appoints Oye Olukotun to Board of Directors

PASADENA, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Arrowhead Pharmaceuticals Inc. (NASDAQ: ARWR) today announced that the board of directors appointed veteran pharmaceutical industry executive Oye Olukotun, M.D., MPH, as an independent director of the company, with a term beginning effective September 1, 2020. Douglass Given, M.D., Ph.D., Chairman of the Board of Arrowhead, said, “Oye […]

Bayer Phase IV Study Met its Primary Endpoint in PAH Patients Who Had Transitioned to Adempas® (riociguat) After Insufficient Response to PDE5 Inhibitors

Data presented as a late-breaker during a virtual ALERT session at the annual meeting of the European Respiratory Society Outcomes from the randomized, controlled, open-label REPLACE study included results from 226 patients with pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) WHIPPANY, N.J.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Bayer today announced results from the Phase IV REPLACE (Riociguat rEplacing PDE-5i […]

Ontrak Announces Full Exercise of Overallotment Option in Public Offering of Non-Convertible Preferred Stock

Company to use non-dilutive capital for working capital, M&A, investment in technology SANTA MONICA, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Ontrak, Inc. (NASDAQ: OTRK) (“Ontrak” or the “Company”), a leading AI-powered and telehealth enabled, virtualized outpatient healthcare treatment company, today announced that it has closed the full exercise of the underwriters’ over-allotment option regarding its previously announced […]

Nihon Kohden Introduces NK-HealthProtect™ Wireless Surge Solution Designed to Aid Emergency Departments During Patient Overflows

Solution Combines Nihon Kohden’s Proprietary Prefense® Early Detection & Notification System with Wireless Wearable Monitors to Expand Monitoring Capacity IRVINE, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Nihon Kohden, a U.S. market leader in precision medical products and services, today announced the launch of its NK-HealthProtect Wireless Surge Solution, a package of patient monitors, hardware and software […]

PQ Bypass Receives FDA “Breakthrough Device Designation” for the World’s First Fully Percutaneous Femoral-Popliteal Bypass Device

Designation Expedites Physician Access to Device for Patients with Extremely Long and Complex SFA Lesions MILPITAS, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–PQ Bypass Inc, a medical device pioneer bringing new advancements to the treatment of advanced peripheral artery disease (PAD), announced today that they received Breakthrough Device designation from the U.S. Food and Drug […]