The Latest Cardiac and Vascular News
KALAMAZOO, Mich., March 5, 2019 /PRNewswire/ — Innovative Cardiovascular Solutions, LLC (ICS), a privately held medical device company, today announced the first clinical use of its next-generation Emblok™ Embolic Protection System in patients undergoing transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) procedures in its European feasibility study. The cases were successfully performed by primary investigator […]
HINGHAM, Mass., March 04, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Further expanding its global IP portfolio, Microbot Medical Inc. (Nasdaq CM: MBOT) received an official communication from the European Patent Office regarding its intention to grant European Patent Application No. 13 746 563, which covers an adjustable guidewire for use in percutaneous […]
SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., March 04, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — MyoKardia, Inc. (Nasdaq: MYOK), a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company pioneering a precision medicine approach for the treatment of serious cardiovascular diseases, today announced positive 12- and 24-week safety, efficacy and biomarker data for its investigational drug, mavacamten, from the company’s PIONEER […]
DANVILLE, Pa., March 4, 2019 /PRNewswire/ — The National Institutes of Health has awarded researchers at Geisinger $3.1 million over the next five years to explore innovative approaches for early, genomics-based detection of arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy (ARVC). ARVC is a degenerative heart disease responsible for approximately 20 percent of sudden cardiac death in individuals […]
SAN RAMON, Calif., Feb. 28, 2019 /PRNewswire/ — BioVentrix, Inc., a pioneer of technologies and procedures for less invasive treatment of heart failure (HF), today announced a significant reimbursement achievement. InEk, the German Institute for Hospital Remuneration, has reconfirmed the award of NUB Status 1 for the Revivent TC™ TransCatheter Ventricular Enhancement System. […]
CAMBRIDGE, Mass.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Blackstone Life Sciences today announced the launch of Anthos Therapeutics Inc. (“Anthos”), a new biopharmaceutical company focused on advancing next-generation targeted therapies for high-risk cardiovascular patients. As part of this launch, Novartis has licensed to Anthos MAA868, an antibody directed at Factor XI and XIa, key components of […]
DUBLIN – February 26, 2019 – Medtronic plc (NYSE:MDT) today announced the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval of its Resolute Drug-Eluting Stent (DES) platform (including the Resolute Onyx(TM) and Resolute Integrity(TM) DES) for the treatment of patients with coronary artery disease who have de novo chronic total occlusion (CTO), a complex […]
LONDON–(BUSINESS WIRE)–LivaNova PLC (NASDAQ:LIVN), a market-leading medical technology company, announced today that given the increasing viability of Valve-in-Valve (ViV) procedures, it has added new safety and technical information to the Perceval U.S. Instructions For Use (IFUs). This addition was made following completion of the Company’s application to the U.S. Food […]
PARIS and NEW YORK, Feb. 25, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Quantum Genomics (Euronext Growth – FR0011648971 – ALQGC), a biopharmaceutical company specializing in the development of a new drug class that directly targets the brain to treat resistant hypertension and heart failure, today announced it has completed enrollment in its pharmacokinetic study […]
Basel, February 25, 2019 – Novartis announced today that it is exercising its option to license the rights to develop and commercialize TQJ230, an investigational agent previously known as AKCEA-APO(a)-LRx, from Akcea Therapeutics, an affiliate of Ionis Pharmaceuticals, for targeted cardiovascular therapy. TQJ230 was discovered by Ionis and has been co-developed to […]
