Cardiology News

SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Salesforce (NYSE: CRM), the world’s #1 CRM, today announced that AstraZeneca (LSE/STO/Nasdaq: AZN), a global, science-led biopharmaceutical company, has selected Agentforce Life Sciences for Customer Engagement to help transform its customer engagement globally, fostering stronger relationships with healthcare professionals (HCPs) through data-driven, AI-powered engagement. This work will support AstraZeneca's commitment to push the boundaries of science to deliv...

LEVALLOIS-PERRET, France--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Cardiawave, a pioneering medtech company developing non-invasive ultrasound therapy (NIUT) for aortic stenosis, has received CE Certificate for Valvosoft®, the world’s first non-invasive therapeutic alternative to treat Severe Symptomatic Aortic Stenosis (sSAS), a serious, degenerative and fast-growing disease due to population aging, which remains without a solution for many patients around the world. “Innovating to address unmet patient needs is at t...

PLEASANTON, Calif. & CHELMSFORD, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The PulsePoint Foundation, a public non-profit 501(c)(3) that builds public safety applications and maintains the National Emergency AED Registry (NEAR), and ZOLL®, an Asahi Kasei company that manufactures medical devices and related software solutions, including automated external defibrillators (AEDs), announces a new initiative, Anyone Can Register. The program will rally volunteers, AED owners, and AED manufacturers to expand NEAR so...

IRVINE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Edwards Lifesciences (NYSE: EW) will outline its patient-focused strategy and share financial guidance during its annual investor conference. Entering 2026 with momentum for sustainable differentiated growth, Edwards is uniquely positioned with leading therapies across its core structural heart innovations for patients with aortic stenosis (AS), mitral regurgitation (MR), tricuspid regurgitation (TR) and pulmonic diseases, and expanding into emerging opportuniti...

IRVINE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Masimo (NASDAQ: MASI) today hosted its 2025 Investor Day at the Company’s headquarters. At the event, Masimo’s management team provided an update on the Company’s long-term strategy, including the pathway for expanding Masimo’s position as a global leader in patient monitoring, the Company’s multi-year pipeline, and a clear roadmap to deliver durable revenue growth, margin expansion and increased cash flow. Masimo also provided a detailed look at each of its gro...

BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Elucid has announced new Hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment (OPPS) and Physician Fee Schedule (PFS) decisions from the U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) that establish significant reimbursement for coronary plaque analysis using PlaqueIQ across care settings. The final rules, effective January 1, 2026, include a new Category I CPT code (75577) for AI quantification and characterization of coronary atherosclerotic plaque derived from analysis o...

LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--LivaNova PLC (Nasdaq: LIVN), a market-leading medical technology company, today announced it will present eight posters at the American Epilepsy Society (AES) Annual Meeting, taking place Dec. 5-9 in Atlanta. These presentations highlight real-world evidence from the CORE-VNS study, the largest prospective, multinational observational study of VNS Therapy™ for Drug-Resistant Epilepsy (DRE), and new health economics analyses. “At the heart of LivaNova’s purpose as a Comp...

FERNANDINA BEACH, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The Family Heart Foundation, a leading research and advocacy organization, published new research in the American Journal of Preventive Cardiology revealing significant gaps in cholesterol management during 2022-23 among U.S. adults with atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease (ASCVD). Findings show that only 13% of adults with ASCVD were meeting three key components of optimal low-density lipoprotein-cholesterol (LDL-C) management, including receiving gu...

TOKYO & BASKING RIDGE, N.J.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--On December 2, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (the Federal Circuit) reversed a decision from the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas that found Seagen Inc’s U.S. Patent No. 10,808,039 (the ’039 patent) not invalid (the Texas decision). In view of the reversal, the Federal Circuit vacated the Texas court’s related infringement judgment and damages award against Daiichi Sankyo. In a separate decision, the Federal C...

WILMINGTON, Del.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--AstraZeneca’s New Drug Application (NDA) for baxdrostat has been accepted for Priority Review by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in the US for the treatment of adult patients with hard-to-control (uncontrolled or treatment resistant) hypertension as an add-on to other antihypertensive medicines when these do not provide adequate lowering of blood pressure. The Prescription Drug User Fee Act (PDUFA) date is anticipated during the second quarter of 202...