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 […]
Coronary/Structural Heart
National Institutes of Health awards Geisinger over $3.1 million for research of sudden cardiac death
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 […]
BioVentrix Achieves 2019 NUB Reimbursement Status 1 in Germany for Revivent TC™ TransCatheter Ventricular Enhancement System
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. […]
Blackstone Life Sciences and Novartis Launch Anthos Therapeutics to Develop Innovative Medicines for Cardiovascular Disease
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 […]
Medtronic Resolute(TM) Drug-Eluting Stent (DES) Platform Receives Expanded Indication for Treatment of Chronic Total Occlusion (CTO)
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 […]
LivaNova Announces Availability of Safety and Technical Information for Valve-in-Valve Procedures on Perceval Platform
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 […]
Quantum Genomics Completes Enrollment in Its Pharmacokinetic Clinical Study of Firibastat
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 […]
Novartis to pursue transformational therapy to reduce risk of cardiovascular disease in people living with elevated levels of inherited lipoprotein(a)
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 […]
4C Medical’s Novel Mitral Regurgitation Therapy to be Highlighted at CRT 2019 Meeting
BROOKLYN PARK, Minn., Feb. 25, 2019 /PRNewswire/ — 4C Medical Technologies, Inc. (4C Medical), a developer of minimally invasive technologies for structural heart disease, today announced that its AltaValve™, a transcatheter mitral valve replacement (TMVR) technology, will be highlighted in the following presentations at the Cardiovascular Research Technologies (CRT) meeting held March 2-5, 2019 in Washington, […]
LivaNova’s Perceval Sutureless Aortic Heart Valve Receives National Reimbursement in Japan to Treat Patients with Aortic Valve Disease
LONDON–(BUSINESS WIRE)–LivaNova PLC (NASDAQ:LIVN), a market-leading medical technology company, today announced that Japan’s Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare granted national reimbursement for the Company’s Perceval® sutureless aortic heart valve to treat aortic valve disease. By adding Perceval into Japan’s health insurance system, physicians and patients have greater access to this […]



