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Baxter Announces Acquisition of Cheetah Medical to Expand Specialized Patient Monitoring Portfolio

Baxter International Inc., a leading global medical products company, today entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Cheetah Medical, a leading provider of non-invasive hemodynamic monitoring technologies. The agreement demonstrates Baxter’s ongoing commitment to improving clinical outcomes with an established...

September 11, 2019

Cardiovascular / Cardiology

Tivus Ultrasound System for Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension Gets FDA Breakthrough Designation

SoniVie, an Israeli company developing a novel system for the treatment of PAH, today announced that it has been granted Breakthrough Device Designation from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for the Therapeutic Intra-Vascular Ultrasound (TIVUS) System in patients...

September 10, 2019

Cardiovascular / Cardiology

Axonics® Announces U.S. Food & Drug Administration Approval for its Sacral Neuromodulation System 

Axonics Modulation Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: AXNX), a medical technology company that has developed and is commercializing a novel implantable rechargeable sacral neuromodulation (“SNM”) device for the treatment of urinary and bowel dysfunction, today announced the approval of the Axonics r-SNM® System by...

September 9, 2019

Cardiovascular / Cardiology

Multi-Sensing Glove Makes Prosthetic Hands More Real 

Engineers from Purdue University, University of Georgia, and University of Texas have combined forces to develop a glove that can be put over existing prosthetic hands to give them a more life-like feel and the ability to sense a variety...

September 9, 2019

Surgery and Surgical Robotics

First Long-distance Heart Surgery Performed via Robot

A doctor in India has performed a series of five percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) procedures on patients who were 20 miles away from him. The feat was pulled off using a precision vascular robot developed by Corindus. The results of...

September 6, 2019

Imaging Visualization & Navigation

Stryker announces definitive agreement to acquire Mobius Imaging & Cardan Robotics 

Stryker (NYSE: SYK) announced today a definitive agreement to acquire Mobius Imaging, LLC, a leader in point-of-care imaging technology, and its sister company, GYS Tech, LLC (DBA Cardan Robotics), in an all cash transaction of approximately $370 million upfront and...

September 5, 2019

Cardiovascular / Cardiology

Pacemaker-Like Implant Cleared in Europe to Lower Blood Pressure

Orchestra BioMed™, Inc., (“Orchestra BioMed” or the “Company”), a biomedical innovation company providing high-impact solutions for large unmet needs in procedure-based medicine, announced today that it has received CE Mark approval for its Moderato® implantable pulse generator system that delivers BackBeat...

September 5, 2019

Cardiovascular / Cardiology

First-ever: FDA Clears Biobeat’s Wearable Watch and Patch for Non-invasive Cuffless Blood Pressure Monitoring

Biobeat, a bio-medical technology company developing advanced sensing and remote monitoring solutions for patients, announced today that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted a 510K clearance for its patch and watch for measurement of blood pressure, oxygenation and...

August 29, 2019

Diagnostics & Healthcare News

Medtronic’s Ishrak Set to Retire, Leadership Succession Announced

Medtronic announced that Omar Ishrak, Medtronic’s Chairman and Chief Executive Officer (CEO), has announced his intention to retire as CEO on April 26, 2020, following the end of the company’s current fiscal year. As a result, the Medtronic Board of...

August 28, 2019