XIENCE Xpedition™ 48 Leverages Proven Design and Clinical Outcomes of the XIENCE Family of Drug Eluting Stents Has the Potential to Reduce Overall Procedural Costs Very Long Lesions Most Often Seen in Patients with Diabetes ABBOTT PARK, Ill., May ...
Devices, Interventional Cardiology, Regulatory
Abbott, XIENCE Xpedition, drug eluting stent, coronary stent

Initial Data from Patient Registries Shows the Reducer Significantly Improves Angina Scores at Six Months Post-Implantation PARIS and VANCOUVER, May 21, 2013 -(Healthcare Sales & Marketing Network)- Neovasc Inc. (NVC.V), a developer of novel technologie...
Devices, Interventional Cardiology
Neovasc , angina, Neovasc Reducer

ANN ARBOR, MI--(Healthcare Sales & Marketing Network) - Michael Pisano, PhD, has been appointed as President and CEO of Accumed Radial Systems, LLC (ARS), the newly formed wholly owned subsidiary of Accumed Systems, Inc. Dr. Pisano has been hired to provid...
Devices, Interventional, Personnel
Accumed Radial Systems, Accumed Systems, transradial catheterization

WIESBADEN, Germany, May 21, 2013 -- (Healthcare Sales & Marketing Network) -- Medical device manufacturer OrbusNeich Medical Inc. and its subsidiary, OrbusNeich Medical GmbH (collectively "OrbusNeich") today announced that it has enforced the se...
Devices, Interventional Cardiology, Litigation
OrbusNeich Medical, Boston Scientific

Xellia is a leading developer and manufacturer of anti-infective therapies for multi-drug resistant infections. With this acquisition Novo expands its long-term investment portfolio with a further major life-science company in Denmark and will contribute t...
Biopharmaceuticals, Mergers & Acquisitions
Xellia Pharmaceuticals, Novo A/S, Novo Group, Alpharma

EMA Submission Planned in the Coming Weeks WESTON, Mass.--(Healthcare Sales & Marketing Network)--Today Biogen Idec (BIIB) announced it has submitted a Biologics License Application (BLA) to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for approval of PL...
Biopharmaceuticals, Neurology, FDA
Biogen Idec, PLEGRIDY, peginterferon beta-1a, multiple sclerosis

Available Live 3D TEE and new breakthrough ICE catheter to reduce need for two separate cardiac ultrasound systems ANDOVER, Mass., May 21, 2013 -- (Healthcare Sales & Marketing Network) -- Royal Philips Electronics (NYSE: PHG, AEX: PHIA) today announce...
Devices, Cardiology
Royal Philips Electronics, St. Jude Medical, CX50 xMATRIX, ultrasound

One of the First Healthcare Providers to Install Toshiba’s Aquilion ONE ViSION Edition TUSTIN, Calif.--(Healthcare Sales & Marketing Network)--West Virginia University Hospitals (WVUH) wanted to acquire new technology to improve workflow and patient car...
Devices, Radiology
Toshiba America Medical Systems, Aquilion, ONE ViSION Edition

Will Fund Development of Lead Compound KPT-330 Through Pivotal Studies in Two Oncology Indications NATICK, Mass., May 20, 2013 -- (Healthcare Sales & Marketing Network) -- Karyopharm Therapeutics Inc., a leader in the new field of nuclear transport modu...
Biopharmaceuticals, Oncology, Venture Capital, Personnel
Karyopharm Therapeutics

WOBURN, Mass., May 20, 2013 -- (Healthcare Sales & Marketing Network) -- Flexion Therapeutics, Inc. today announced the addition of Frederick W. Driscoll to its management team as chief financial officer. Mr. Driscoll has more than 30 years of financial m...
Biopharmaceuticals, Personnel
Flexion Therapeutics

ALISO VIEJO, Calif., May 20, 2013 -- (Healthcare Sales & Marketing Network) -- Sequent Medical, Inc. announced today that it has received CE mark for the SL ("Single Layer") family of WEB® Aneurysm Embolization Devices, and has commenced a c...
Devices, Interventional, Radiology, Product Launch
Sequent Medical, Aneurysm, Embolization, MicroBraid, WEB SL, WEB SLS

Nellcor pulse oximeters only FDA 510(k)-cleared oximeters compliant with ISO 80601-2-61 BOULDER, Colo.--(Healthcare Sales & Marketing Network)--Covidien, a leading global provider of healthcare products and recognized innovator in patient monitoring and...
Devices, Monitoring, FDA
Covidien, Nellcor, pulse oximetry

Dr. Giora Yaron, joint Chairman at Itamar: "Itamar Medical is at a pivotal point of transitioning into an accelerated commercial phase. Gilad is well positioned to lead the company towards realizing our ambitious growth projections." CAESAREA,...
Devices, Personnel
Itamar Medical, WatchPAT, sleep apnea, obstructive sleep apnea

ompany to Focus on Small Molecule Selective Translation Regulators for Cancer SAN DIEGO, May 20, 2013 -- (Healthcare Sales & Marketing Network) -- eFFECTOR Therapeutics, a newly established biopharmaceutical company, today announced the completion of a...
Biopharmaceuticals, Venture Capital, Personnel
eFFECTOR Therapeutics

Results of Randomized JACK-EPC Trial Published in Minerva Cardioangiologica HONG KONG, May 20, 2013 -- (Healthcare Sales & Marketing Network) -- OrbusNeich today announced that the company's Genous Stent is associated with a significantly lower rate of...
Devices, Interventional Cardiology
OrbusNeich, Genous Stent, JACK-EPC, binary restenosis

Proposed Transactions offer shareholders highly unique investment and asset proposition Acquisition of AOP Orphan – a private, orphan disease company headquartered in Vienna, Austria Acquires 48% of Newbridge Pharmaceuticals – a private Africa, Middl...
Biopharmaceuticals, Mergers & Acquisitions
Elan Corp, AOP Orphan Pharmaceuticals, Newbridge Pharmaceuticals, Speranza

The Montage 2 Dual Filter System is the only approved device to protect the carotid arteries by capturing embolic debris during TAVR. SANTA ROSA, Calif., May 20, 2013 -- (Healthcare Sales & Marketing Network) -- Claret Medical, Inc. announced the publi...
Devices, Interventional Cardiology
Claret Medical, TAVR , Montage Dual Filter, Embolic Protection

Linear accelerator is island's first Versa HD PONCE, Puerto Rico, May 17, 2013 -- (Healthcare Sales & Marketing Network) -- Serving a region of 650,000 inhabitants in southern, central and western Puerto Rico, Caribbean Imaging and Radiation Therapy (C...
Devices, Oncology
Elekta, Versa HD, stereotactic, radiosurgery, radiotherapy

PLEASANTON, Calif., May 17, 2013 -- (Healthcare Sales & Marketing Network) -- Thoratec Corporation (THOR), a world leader in device-based mechanical circulatory support therapies to save, support and restore failing hearts, today announced that it has rec...
Devices, Cardiology, FDA
Thoratec, HeartMate II, Pocket Controller, HeartMate II LVAD

Genentech and Biogen Idec have filed for re-hearing in the United States COPENHAGEN, Denmark, May 17, 2013 -- (Healthcare Sales & Marketing Network) -- Genmab A/S (GEN.CO) announced today that Genentech and Biogen Idec have filed for a re-hearing en ba...
Biopharmaceuticals, Litigation
Genmab, Genentech, Biogen Idec, GlaxoSmithKline, Arzerra