The Latest Cardiac and Vascular News
IRVINE, Calif., Jan. 28, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Hancock Jaffe Laboratories, Inc. (Nasdaq: HJLI, HJLIW), a Company specializing in medical devices that restore cardiac and vascular health, today announced its objectives for its upcoming CoreoGraft® study at the Texas Heart Institute. The study will begin the week of January 28. […]
ROCKVILLE, Md., Jan. 28, 2019 /PRNewswire/ — The Heart Failure Society of America (HFSA) has announced that John D. Barnes has been chosen by the Board of Directors as the society’s new Chief Executive Officer. As CEO, he will oversee the implementation of the society’s vision, mission, and strategic plan and assume day-to-day leadership of […]
CARLSBAD, Calif., Jan. 28, 2019 /PRNewswire/ — Acutus Medical today announced 12-month data from the UNCOVER-AF trial investigating the use of the AcQMap advanced cardiac imaging and mapping visualization system in persistent atrial fibrillation (AF) ablation procedures. Results presented at the 24th Annual AF Symposium in Boston show the use of AcQMap resulted in 72.5 percent […]
ALEXANDRIA, Va. and MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., Jan. 28, 2019 /PRNewswire/ — Oxford Finance LLC (“Oxford”), a specialty finance firm that provides senior debt to life sciences and healthcare services companies, today announced the closing of a $20 million senior secured term loan to AliveCor, Inc., a privately held company focused on using artificial intelligence to improve cardiac […]
DUBLIN – January 24, 2019 – Medtronic plc (NYSE: MDT) today announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire EPIX Therapeutics, Inc. (EPIX), a privately-held medical device company that designs and manufactures a novel, catheter-based, temperature-controlled cardiac ablation system for the treatment of patients with cardiac arrhythmias (irregular […]
SAN DIEGO, Jan. 24, 2019 /PRNewswire/ — Arena Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Nasdaq: ARNA) today announced the closing of the global license agreement with United Therapeutics Corporation (Nasdaq: UTHR) for the Arena-discovered, Phase 3 investigational drug candidate ralinepag, a next-generation, oral, selective and potent prostacyclin receptor agonist for the treatment of pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH). The global license […]
CLEVELAND, Jan. 24, 2019 /PRNewswire/ — Centerline Biomedical, Inc., announced on January 22nd that the company submitted a 510(k) premarket notification application to the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for its flagship product, the Intra-Operative Positioning System, IOPS. IOPS, a non-radiation-based surgical navigation system for minimally invasive surgery, leverages anatomical mapping and modeling […]
THOUSAND OAKS, Calif., Jan. 24, 2019 /PRNewswire/ — Amgen (NASDAQ: AMGN) today announced that the National Medical Products Administration (NMPA) has approved a new indication for Repatha® (evolocumab) as the first PCSK9 inhibitor in China for adults with established atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease (ASCVD) to reduce the risk of myocardial infarction, stroke and coronary revascularization. Low-density lipoprotein cholesterol […]
HINGHAM, Mass., Jan. 23, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Microbot Medical Inc. (Nasdaq: MBOT), a medical device company specializing in the design and development of transformational micro-robotic medical technologies, today announced that it has entered into definitive agreements with institutional investors for the purchase of 250,000 shares of its common stock, […]
EDEN PRAIRIE, Minn., Jan. 24, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — In a release issued this morning by CHF Solutions, we have been advised by the company that the headline should read “Cardiothoracic Surgeon Daniel Beckles” rather than “Cardiologist Daniel Beckles” as originally issued. The corrected release follows: CHF Solutions (Nasdaq: CHFS), today announced […]
