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Correvio Provides U.S. Regulatory Update for BRINAVESS

VANCOUVER, June 11, 2018 /PRNewswire/ – Correvio Pharma Corp. (NASDAQ: CORV) (TSX: CORV), a revenue-generating, specialty pharmaceutical company focused on providing innovative, high-quality brands that meet the needs of acute care physicians and patients, today announced that it has received a response from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) regarding the regulatory […]

LivaNova’s Perceval Sutureless Aortic Heart Valve Approved in Japan

LONDON–(BUSINESS WIRE)–LivaNova PLC (NASDAQ:LIVN) (“LivaNova” or the “Company”), a market-leading medical technology company, today announced that Japan’s Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare has approved the Company’s Perceval® sutureless aortic heart valve to treat aortic valve disease. “With this approval for Perceval, an innovative and trusted valve platform, we are able […]

Fresenius Medical Care and Humacyte announce strategic global partnership supported by a $150M equity investment

BOSTON, June 11, 2018 /PRNewswire/ — Fresenius Medical Care, the world’s largest provider of dialysis products and services, and Humacyte, Inc., a medical research, discovery and development company, today announced a strategic, global partnership and a $150M USD equity investment. This agreement has the potential to make Humacyte’s investigational human acellular vessel, HUMACYL®, available […]

B. Braun to Showcase Its Commitment to Reducing Healthcare-Associated Infections with Products and Education at APIC 2018

BETHLEHEM, Pa., June 08, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — B. Braun Medical Inc. will feature products that help fight healthcare-associated infections – and will support (through an unrestricted educational grant to Saxe Healthcare Communications) a continuing education (CE) accredited presentation about a new technique that can be used to proactively address […]

Celixir announces US FDA approval of the IND application for cell therapy Heartcel

Stratford-upon-Avon, UK, 08 June 2018 – Celixir, a privately owned company discovering and developing life-saving advanced therapies, announces that the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved its Investigational New Drug application (IND) for HeartcelTM, its immuno-modulatory progenitor (iMP) cell therapy for the treatment of adult heart failure. Celixir announced […]

Corindus Announces Pharmaceutical and Medical Device Agency (PMDA) Approval of CorPath GRX System in Japan

WALTHAM, Mass.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Corindus Vascular Robotics, Inc. [NYSE American: CVRS], a leading developer of precision vascular robotics, announced today that it received Pharmaceutical and Medical Device Agency (PMDA) Approval for commercialization of its CorPath® GRX System in Japan. Japan is one of the largest markets in the world for percutaneous coronary interventions […]

PAVmed to Receive $10.4 Million in Gross Proceeds from Oversubscribed Rights Offering

NEW YORK–(BUSINESS WIRE)–PAVmed Inc. (Nasdaq: PAVM, PAVMZ) (the “Company” or “PAVmed”), a highly differentiated, multiproduct medical device company, today announced its previously announced equity subscription rights offering (the “Rights Offering”) expired at 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time on Thursday, June 7, 2018 and, as such, the rights are no longer exercisable. The […]

iBeat Secures Investments From Leading Life Insurers and Reinsurers, SCOR Global Life and Transamerica Ventures

SAN FRANCISCO–(BUSINESS WIRE)–iBeat, a health tech company empowering people to live longer, today announced two investments totaling upward of seven figures from SCOR Life & Health Ventures and Transamerica Ventures. The investments also include enterprise partnerships and booked revenue for the company’s cardiac monitoring smartwatch that will eventually be rolled out to the […]

CardioNXT Announces Enrollment Completion of RADAR Clinical Trial

WESTMINSTER, Colo., June 6, 2018 /PRNewswire/ — CardioNXT and AFTx, related privately-held medical device companies, jointly announced today that the Real-time electrogram Analysis for Drivers of Atrial fibRillation (RADAR) clinical trial has reached full enrollment with 65 treated patients. The RADAR trial focuses on treating patients with Persistent and Long Standing Persistent Atrial Fibrillation (AF).  The […]

Micro Medical Solutions Marks First U.S. Implants of MicroStent for Peripheral Artery Disease

WILMINGTON, Mass.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Micro Medical Solutions (MMS), an innovator in the field of microvascular interventions that aim to improve clinical outcomes and quality of life, announced a major milestone today in the development of its MicroStent technology, a vascular stent specifically designed to reduce below-the-knee amputations caused by critical limb ischemia […]