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Study Finds Advantages of Full-disclosure Mobile Telemetry Monitoring over Patch and Holter Methods to Diagnose Patients with Bradyarrhythmia

NEW ORLEANS, March 14, 2019 /PRNewswire/ — Medi-Lynx Cardiac Monitoring, LLC, a leading provider of cardiac monitoring solutions, today announced results from a large retrospective analysis which demonstrated that cardiac monitoring with full-disclosure mobile cardiac telemetry (PocketECG) for up to 30 days significantly increased diagnostic yield for patients with bradyarrhythmia over Patch and […]

LindaCare to Debut ProPulse™ Cardiac Remote Monitoring Services at ACC in New Orleans

LEUVEN, Belgium and HARTFORD, Conn., March 14, 2019 /PRNewswire/ — LindaCare, a digital health company specializing in remote patient monitoring solutions for chronic disease management, today announced the company will offer ProPulse™, a new remote monitoring service for patients with cardiac implantable devices, adding to its online device management software solution. Dr. Robert Lerman, LindaCare’s Chief […]

Boston Scientific Receives CE Mark for Next Generation WATCHMAN FLX™ Left Atrial Appendage Closure Device

MARLBOROUGH, Mass., March 13, 2019 /PRNewswire/ — Boston Scientific Corporation (NYSE: BSX) announced it has received CE Mark and initiated a limited market release of the next generation WATCHMAN FLX™ Left Atrial Appendage Closure (LAAC) Device in Europe. Patients with AF are five times more likely to suffer a stroke than someone with a normal heart […]

Sotera Wireless to Showcase Newest ViSi Mobile® 1.5G Capability at AONE Conference in April

SAN DIEGO–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Sotera Wireless, maker of the ViSi Mobile® Surveillance Monitoring System and a pioneer in continuous vital signs monitoring, announced it will be exhibiting at the American Organization of Nurse Executives (AONE), the leading voice of nursing leadership in health care. The 4-day event brings nurse leaders together to […]

Espero BioPharma Announces Tecarfarin Receives FDA Orphan Drug Designation for Patients with End Stage Renal Disease and Atrial Fibrillation

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. and IRVINE, Calif., March 11, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Espero BioPharma, Inc., a pharmaceutical company focused on the development of therapeutics for unmet needs in thrombosis and cardiac rhythm control, today announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted Orphan Drug Designation (ODD) for tecarfarin […]

Boston Scientific Announces Scheduled Data at EHRA 2019 Congress

MARLBOROUGH, Mass., March 11, 2019 /PRNewswire/ — Boston Scientific Corporation (NYSE: BSX) today announced key data that will be featured at EHRA 2019, the annual congress of the European Heart Rhythm Association (EHRA) in Lisbon, Portugal, on March 17-19. Two late-breaking clinical trials will be presented, including: Outcomes from AF-FICIENT I, a prospective, multicenter, single arm […]

Fujifilm and Epsilon Imaging Partner to Expand Advanced Echocardiographic Analysis and Monitoring Capabilities for Synapse Cardiology

STAMFORD, Conn., March 11, 2019 /PRNewswire/ —  FUJIFILM Medical Systems U.S.A., Inc., a leading provider of Enterprise Imaging and Medical Informatics solutions, has partnered with Epsilon Imaging, a revolutionary visualization and analysis software provider for cardiac diagnostic workflow, to expand the advanced analysis capabilities of Fujifilm’s advanced imaging and reporting offering, Synapse® Cardiology PACS. Epsilon Imaging’s […]

Vitruvias Therapeutics Inc. Launches Shanghai-Based Sinotherapeutics’s Approved Version of Propafenone ER in the U.S.

AUBURN, Ala. & SHANGHAI–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Vitruvias Therapeutics Inc., an Auburn, Alabama-based finished-dose generic drug company, and Sinotherapeutics Inc., a Shanghai-based generic drug company, announced they have launched a bioequivalent FDA-approved version of Rythmol SR. Rythmol SR, known generically as propafenone hydrochloride, is an antiarrhythmic drug supplied in extended-release capsules of 225, […]

Northwestern Medicine and Eko Partner to Improve Valvular Heart Disease Screening Using Machine Learning Algorithms

CHICAGO, March 7, 2019 /PRNewswire/ — Northwestern Medicine Bluhm Cardiovascular Institute is pioneering the use of artificial intelligence (AI) for cardiac screening in a new study of Eko’s cardiac monitoring platform. The study aims to demonstrate that Eko’s digital stethoscopes and AI algorithms can interpret heart sounds accurately to help screen for pathologic heart murmurs and […]