The Latest Cardiac and Vascular News
SAN FRANCISCO–(BUSINESS WIRE)–iBeat, a wearable technology company empowering people to live longer lives, today announced it has closed another $3 million in funding, bringing its total seed stage funding to $4.5 million. New investors include WTI, SV Tech Ventures, Lee Equity, and renowned entrepreneurs and angel investors Michael Rubin, Mark Burg, and Harald Ludwig. They join […]
Press Release DUBLIN – July 11, 2017 – Medtronic plc (NYSE: MDT) today announced first enrollments in the STOP AF First clinical trial. The trial will evaluate the safety and effectiveness of performing pulmonary vein isolation (PVI) with the Arctic Front Advance(TM) Cryoballoon in patients with symptomatic paroxysmal atrial fibrillation (AF) prior […]
KIRKLAND, Wash.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Cardiac Insight, Inc., a U.S. developer of wearable medical devices and diagnostic software, announced today that its FDA-approved Cardea SOLO™ ECG monitoring system is available for diagnosing atrial fibrillation following cardiac ablation. The company’s cardiac monitoring device supports a recent formal consensus statement by experts from 11 leading […]
SAN FRANCISCO, July 10, 2017 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — iRhythm Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ:IRTC), a leading digital health care solutions company focused on the advancement of cardiac care announced a collaboration with the Stanford Machine Learning Group that has resulted in the development of a deep learning algorithm capable of expert level […]
Minneapolis, MN, July 11, 2017 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — BioSig Technologies, Inc. (OTCQB: BSGM), a medical device company developing a proprietary platform designed to address an unmet technology need within the $4+ billion electrophysiology (EP) marketplace, today announced that the Company has engaged Health Research International (HRI) to compile essential market […]
By Ken Dropkiewski (ken@prime-core.com) While no hard statistics exist as to the exact number of motor vehicle accidents and concurrent heart attacks, the article 5 Facts About the Trend of Heart Attacks While Driving, makes a compelling case for why more people are suffering acute MIs while driving. – An aging population […]
Evity 8 HF-T QP Offers a Host of Functions Including LV VectorOpt, RF Telemetry, MRI AutoDetect and BIOTRONIK Home Monitoring TOKYO, Japan and BERLIN, Germany, July 10, 2017 – BIOTRONIK has announced the launch of its Evity cardiac resynchronization therapy pacemaker (CRT-P) in the Japanese market. It is the company’s highest performing […]
COPENHAGEN, Denmark, July 7, 2017 /PRNewswire/ — Medical device company CathVision has signed a multi-million venture investment from Scandinavian-based investors VF Venture and Borean Innovation. The investment is directed at developing and market the company’s superior electrophysiology (EP) recording system for treating cardiac arrhythmia. Approximately 2% of the Western population suffers from cardiac […]
PARIS–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Cardiologs Technologies SAS announced today that it has received FDA clearance of its Cardiologs ECG Analysis Platform, a cloud-based cardiac monitoring-analysis web service powered by artificial intelligence (AI). Cardiologs aids physicians in screening for atrial fibrillation (AFib) and other arrhythmias using long-term ambulatory ECG monitoring recordings. The Cardiologs system is also CE-marked […]
MARLBOROUGH, Mass., June 29, 2017/PRNewswire/ — CardioFocus, Inc., a medical device innovator and manufacturer dedicated to advancing ablation treatment for cardiac disorders such as atrial fibrillation (AF), today announced that its HeartLight Endoscopic Ablation System is being featured in three new major clinical studies currently underway. Collectively, up to 1,000 AF patients will be […]
