Regulatory

FDA Clears Fever-Detecting Vital Data Sensor in New Cardiac Monitor

LAKE OSWEGO, Ore., Dec. 16, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — BIOTRONIK today announced FDA clearance and availability of the Vital Data Sensor, which identifies body temperature increases potentially associated with fever, in the new BIOMONITOR IIIm injectable cardiac monitor (ICM), as shown in a published case report1. Physicians will now have access to daily reports on […]

FDA Awards Genetesis Breakthrough Device Designation for CardioFlux® Imaging Technology

MASON, Ohio–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Genetesis, Inc. announced today that its flagship product, CardioFlux®, has been granted Breakthrough Device Designation by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for the diagnosis of myocardial ischemia and infarction in patients with symptoms suggestive of acute coronary syndrome. CardioFlux®, the most advanced commercially available magnetocardiograph (MCG), […]

Foldax Receives FDA Approval to Initiate Clinical Study of Biopolymer Mitral Heart Valve

SALT LAKE CITY–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Foldax®, Inc. today announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted IDE approval for the company to initiate a U.S. clinical study of its Tria™ biopolymer mitral surgical heart valve. The company anticipates the first use of its mitral valve in a human will […]

SoniVie Receives FDA Breakthrough Device Designation for the TIVUS System for Renal Artery Denervation

– SoniVie Acquires New Intellectual Property and Other Assets from Cardiosonic Moving TIVUS into New Therapeutic Areas Beyond Pulmonary Hypertension – TEL AVIV, Israel, Dec. 09, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — SoniVie, an Israeli company developing a novel proprietary Therapeutic Intra-Vascular Ultrasound (TIVUS) System to treat a variety of hypertensive disorders, […]

VOLTA MEDICAL’s VX1 AI software for use in atrial fibrillation mapping now FDA cleared

MARSEILLE, France, Dec. 9, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — Volta Medical, a pioneering French-based HealthTech startup is pleased to announce that it has obtained FDA clearance for its revolutionary VX1 AI (artificial intelligence) software. This is the first FDA clearance for an AI based tool in interventional cardiac electrophysiology. VX1 is a machine and deep […]

Medical Ingenuities Receives FDA 510(k) Clearance for PH Band

Novel radial artery occlusion device removes the guesswork from achieving Patent Hemostasis HOLLAND, Mich., Dec. 9, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — Genesis Innovation Group’s cultivate(MD) Capital Fund II LP, a fund focused on investments into early stage healthcare companies with innovative technologies, announces that one of their portfolio companies, Wheaton, IL-based Medical Ingenuities, a medical device company […]

Acarix receives US market approval for the CADScor® System

Press release (MAR) Malmö, Sweden November 25, 2020 Acarix receives US market approval for the CADScor® System Acarix AB (publ) today announced that the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved the company’s De Novo application for marketing approval of the CADScor®System in the US. “This is a major achievement […]

FDA Clears First of its Kind Algorithm Suite for Personal ECG

AliveCor Paving the Way For A New Generation of AI-Powered Remote Cardiology MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., Nov. 23, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — AliveCor, the leader in AI-based personal ECG technology and provider of enterprise cardiology solutions, today announced that the US FDA had given clearance to the company’s next generation of interpretive ECG algorithms. “Kardia […]