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Pulmatrix completes $40M offering, updates product pipeline timetable

March 4, 2021 By Sean Whooley Leave a Comment

Pulmatrix (NSDQ:PULM) announced today that it completed an offering with gross proceeds of approximately $40 million. Lexington, Mass.-based Pulmatrix said in a news release that it completed the registered direct offering to extend the company’s cash runway. Now, the company has additional financing to help fully fund data readouts across its development pipeline, which includes […]

Filed Under: Business/Financial News, Drug-Device Combinations, Featured, Funding Roundup, Pharmaceutical, Research & Development Tagged With: Pulmatrix Inc.

Could this hydrogel repair a broken heart?

March 2, 2021 By Nancy Crotti Leave a Comment

European researchers have developed an injectable hydrogel that could help repair and prevent further heart muscle damage after a heart attack. The therapeutic effect of multiple injections of this hydrogel into the cardiac tissue was assessed during the first preclinical study of its kind, demonstrating its efficacy for cardiac tissue remodeling following a heart attack, […]

Filed Under: Cardiovascular, Featured, Regenerative Medicine, Research & Development Tagged With: hydrogel, National University of Ireland Galway, University of Gothenburg, University of Milano-Bicocca, University of Valladolid, University Paris Est

Medical Alley launches startup accelerator

February 22, 2021 By Sean Whooley Leave a Comment

Minnesota’s Medical Alley Association announced that it launched an accelerator for early-stage healthcare startup companies. Medical Alley Starts is described in its subsection of the Medical Alley website as a focused initiative and suite of services targeted at accelerating healthcare startup formation and growth in Minnesota’s Medical Alley region. The accelerator is led by eight […]

Filed Under: Business/Financial News, Featured, Funding Roundup, Research & Development Tagged With: Medical Alley, Medical Alley Association

BD, Scanwell Health collaborating on smartphone-enabled, home COVID-19 rapid test

February 22, 2021 By Sean Whooley Leave a Comment

Becton Dickinson (NYSE:BDX) announced today that it is collaborating with Scanwell Health to create an at-home rapid COVID-19 test. Scanwell Health, a developer of smartphone-enabled at-home medical tests, will offer its mobile app to pair with a BD antigen test for SARS-CoV-2, the virus causing COVID-19, according to a news release. As part of the collaboration, […]

Filed Under: Business/Financial News, Diagnostics, Digital Health, Featured, Genomics/Molecular Diagnostics, Health Technology, Research & Development, Software / IT Tagged With: BD, becton dickinson, coronavirus, COVID-19, Scanwell Health

Cardiologs touts results of AFib study

February 10, 2021 By Nancy Crotti

Artificial intelligence diagnostics company Cardiologs today announced the results of a clinical study showing its AI-based ECG analysis software “significantly” reduces the rate of false-positive atrial fibrillation (AFib) detection in remote cardiac monitoring of certain patients. The company, which has offices in Paris and Boston, worked with Valley Health System of northern New Jersey to […]

Filed Under: Cardiovascular, Featured, Research & Development, Software / IT Tagged With: artificial intelligence, cardiologstechnologies, Journal of the American College of Cardiology

These medtech stocks performed the best in 2020

January 15, 2021 By Sean Whooley

While 2020 did not go as planned for anyone, with the twists and turns came opportunities for medtech companies to power forward. Innovations came both as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic and perhaps in spite of the challenges brought on by the virus, highlighted by the increased efforts to produce vaccines and testing while […]

Filed Under: 510(k), Big Data, Business/Financial News, Cardiac Implants, Cardiovascular, Diabetes, Diagnostics, Drug-Device Combinations, Electronic Medical Records (EMR), Featured, Food & Drug Administration (FDA), Funding Roundup, Genomics/Molecular Diagnostics, Health Technology, MassDevice Earnings Roundup, Mergers & Acquisitions, Orthopedics, Regulatory/Compliance, Replacement Heart Valves, Research & Development, Respiratory, Robotics, Software / IT, Structural Heart, Surgical, Wall Street Beat Tagged With: Abbott, Abiomed, coronavirus, COVID-19, Dexcom, Edwards Lifesciences, Hologic, Intuitive Surgical, iRhythm Technologies Inc., Masimo, ResMed, ResMed Inc., Stryker

Apple magnetic charger, smartwatch may deactivate Medtronic ICD

January 13, 2021 By Nancy Crotti

A new study in the Heart Rhythm Journal showed a magnetic charger for the iPhone 12 was able to deactivate a Medtronic implantable cardioverter defibrillator (ICD). The iPhone 12 has a circular array of magnets deployed around a central charging coil, making it compatible with the company’s wireless “MagSafe” accessories, according to the study published Jan. 4, […]

Filed Under: Cardiac Implants, Cardiovascular, Featured, Research & Development Tagged With: Apple, Medtronic

MedTech 100 roundup: Industry skyrockets as hot streak continues

January 11, 2021 By Sean Whooley

The medtech industry’s seemingly unstoppable rise over the past several weeks shows no signs of slowing down. For the fourth time in five weeks, and for the third consecutive week, the MassDevice MedTech 100 Index — which includes stocks of the world’s largest medical device companies — hit an all-time high. Previous highs have largely been […]

Filed Under: Business/Financial News, Featured, Funding Roundup, MassDevice Earnings Roundup, Mergers & Acquisitions, Research & Development, Wall Street Beat Tagged With: Amazon, Berkshire Hathaway, CES, coronavirus, COVID-19, COVID-19 vaccine, Dentsply Sirona, Dept. of Health & Human Services (HHS), Dow Jones, Henry Schein Medical, Hologic, JP Morgan Chase, MedTech 100 Index, PerkinElmer Inc., S&P, Smith+Nephew, Stryker

CES 2021: Medical technologies you need to know

January 8, 2021 By Danielle Kirsh

There are fewer mobile health devices and wearables to check out as this year’s CES goes virtual — with a trend toward medtech to slow the spread of COVID-19. Scheduled for Jan. 11–14, CES 2021 will feature 419 digital health and 219 wearable devices, down from 546 and 635 devices, respectively, presented at CES 2020. […]

Filed Under: Cardiovascular, Diagnostics, Digital Health, Featured, Research & Development Tagged With: Atlantic Therapeutics, Axion Research, Binah.ai, CES, coronavirus, Covestro, COVID-19, GateDoc, iMediSync, LuftQI

MedTech 100 roundup: Ringing in the New Year with another high

January 4, 2021 By Sean Whooley

For the third time in the past four weeks, stocks within the medtech industry climbed to never-before-seen heights as 2021 reared its head. Previous highs have largely been a result of the FDA granting Moderna emergency use authorization for its vaccine candidate and its subsequent rollout to the U.S., joining the one made by Pfizer (NYSE:PFE) and BioNTech (NSDQ:BNTX), […]

Filed Under: Business/Financial News, Featured, Funding Roundup, MassDevice Earnings Roundup, Mergers & Acquisitions, Research & Development, Wall Street Beat Tagged With: Boston Scientific, Corinth MedTech, coronavirus, COVID-19, COVID-19 vaccine, Defense Production Act, DiaSorin, MedTech 100 Index, Medtronic, Olympus, Omnia Medical, Teleflex, U.S. Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA), Veran Medical Technologies, Z-Medica

Taking the guesswork out of tracking high blood pressure

December 28, 2020 By Nancy Crotti

Startup CoraVie Medical aims to give patients and their physicians better control over hypertension with a tiny implantable device. Aimee Garza wants to do for high blood pressure what continuous glucose monitors are doing for diabetes. The veteran medtech engineer and marketing maven brings 25 years of experience at two of medtech’s biggest companies — […]

Filed Under: Business/Financial News, Cardiovascular, Featured, Implants, Research & Development Tagged With: CoraVie Medical, Greatbatch Medical, integer, Lake Region Medical, Medtronic

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