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BTG Crossing Devices are Highlighted at the CTO Summit in NY

BOTHELL, WA, March 7, 2019 /PRNewswire/ — BTG plc (LSE: BTG), the global healthcare company, exhibited the BTG Crossing Devices portfolio at the Chronic Total Occlusion (CTO) Summit in New York City from February 28 to March 1. Dr. Alexandre Avran of the Arnault Tzanck Institute in Nice, France, headlined the BTG exhibition at the summit this year, discussing his experience […]

New Data From Amgen To Be Presented At ACC.19 Continues To Build Evidence For Repatha® (evolocumab) Across Multiple Patient Populations

THOUSAND OAKS, Calif., March 6, 2019 /PRNewswire/ — Amgen (NASDAQ: AMGN) today announced the presentation of nine cardiovascular scientific research abstracts, including safety and efficacy results from the largest and longest open label study of homozygous familial hypercholesterolemia (HoFH) patients (TAUSSIG),1  as well as a sub-analysis from the Repatha® (evolocumab) cardiovascular outcomes study (FOURIER). Additional abstracts […]

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 […]

Micro Interventional Devices, Inc.™ Enters Strategic Alliance with OSCOR, Inc.; Closes Series D Financing

NEWTOWN, Pa., March 7, 2019 /PRNewswire/ — Micro Interventional Devices, Inc. (MID) Chairman, President and CEO, Michael Whitman, and OSCOR, Inc. President and CEO, Thomas Osypka, are pleased to announce a strategic alliance that leverages each company’s unique strengths and capabilities to further develop and commercialize innovative solutions to structural heart disease, specifically, MID’s MIA™, Minimally […]

Fist Assist Devices, LLC Announces Formation of Global Medical Advisory Board Led by Dialysis Access Center Medical Director Dr. John Ross

LOS ALTOS, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Fist Assist Devices, LLC, a novel medical device start-up based in Silicon Valley, Calif., today announced the formation of its first global medical advisory board (MAB). Fist Assist Devices, LLC has developed the only wearable patent-protected intermittent compression device for vein dilation for patients with end-stage renal […]

Late-Breaking Data Presentations at ACC 2019 Highlight Abbott’s Leading Cardiovascular Portfolio

ABBOTT PARK, Ill., March 6, 2019 /PRNewswire/ — Key medical devices across Abbott’s (NYSE: ABT) cardiovascular portfolio will be highlighted in five late-breaking clinical trials at the American College of Cardiology’s 68th Annual Scientific Session (ACC 2019) from March 16 – 18 in New Orleans. The late-breaking studies showcase the depth and breadth of the company’s cardiovascular portfolio, providing new data […]

BioSig Appoints Barry Keenan as Vice President of Engineering

Santa Monica, CA, March 06, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — BioSig Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: BSGM), a medical device company developing a proprietary biomedical signal processing platform designed to address an unmet technology need for the electrophysiology (EP) marketplace, today announced that the Company appointed Dr. Barry Keenan, Ph.D, MBA, PMP to head up BioSig’s […]

Bardy Diagnostics™ Selected As Finalist In The Impact Pediatric Health Competition At SXSW 2019 And Advances In The MedTech Innovator Competition

SEATTLE, March 6, 2019 /PRNewswire/ — Bardy Diagnostics, Inc., (“BardyDx”), a leading provider of ambulatory cardiac monitoring technologies and custom data solutions, including the Carnation Ambulatory Monitor (“CAM™”), the industry’s first P-wave centric™ ambulatory cardiac patch monitor and arrhythmia detection device, announced it has been selected as a finalist in the fifth annual Impact Pediatric Health Competition to […]