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S.F.-based startup raises $25M to expand blood collection technologies
San Francisco medical device company Velano Vascular closed a $25 million second round of financing, bringing its total overall to $50 million. The new capital will go toward expanding its needle-less blood draw device and to developing new technologies. CEO Eric Stone would not reveal what these new technologies will entail but said they will fall within the company’s mission ...
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Velano Vascular Named Top Impact Company for 2021 by Real Leaders
Vascular access technology pioneer Velano Vascular was today named a Top Impact Company for 2021 by Real Leaders, the world’s first business and sustainable leadership magazine. Velano was recognized alongside such notable brands as Tesla, Beyond Meat, and Patagonia on the 2021 list for its work making hospital stays more humane and less risky for both patients and practitioners. Through ...
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Velano Secures Additional Funding to Meet Commercial Demand for PIVO, Fueled by Industry Move to One-Stick Hospitalization
SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 17, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Vascular access technology pioneer Velano Vascular today announced that it has closed the second tranche of a $25 million growth financing that will fuel commercialization and the launch of additional novel inpatient medical device solutions. This new investment builds on an initial tranche closed in the first half of 2019 and brings ...
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Velano Vascular Makes Streamlined Virtual Training Tools Available to U.S. Hospitals to Aid in the COVID-19 Response
Vascular access technology pioneer Velano Vascular this past week made its new streamlined remote training program widely available for hospitals around the nation. Initially developed with existing partners utilizing its PIVO™ needle-free blood draw device in the fight against COVID-19, the platform is now available for additional hospitals and systems in need of streamlined care. A ...
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Moffitt Cancer Center Advances Patient Standard of Care by Introducing Needleless Blood Draws
Moffitt Cancer Center has adopted a new needle-free method of blood collection for patients in treatment who often need to undergo repeated needle sticks in a day, becoming the first cancer center in Florida to offer this pain-free technology as part of its world-class cancer care. In its continuing efforts of being at the forefront of innovation, last year the cancer center piloted the ...
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BillionToOne, Inc Response to COVID-19
We deeply thank you for the service you do for the society and for the essential care you provide to pregnant mothers across the US amid this unprecedented pandemic. Our hearts and thoughts go to all of you–you and your family, your clinic staff members, your patients–who have been affected by COVID-19. As a fellow healthcare provider, our team shares the concerns that many of you are ...
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Hycor Biomedical is proud to present a new video presenting the NOVEOS analyzer
NOVEOS® DESIGNED WITH YOUR LAB IN MIND Using extensive input from labs and clinicians around the world, the allergy-focused design brings unmatched competitive advantages. The NOVEOS system requires only 4-μL sample size per test which reduce quantity not sufficient errors, resampling and patient trauma. The advanced micro-particle technology limits interference from: Biotin, IgG / IgG4, ...
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GRAIL Statement on President Biden’s Bold Initiative to Reignite the Cancer Moonshot
“We applaud President Biden for reigniting the Cancer Moonshot and highlighting the critical role of early detection in achieving the ambitious, but attainable, goal of reducing the cancer death rate by at least 50 percent in the next 25 years. Improving quality of life for patients and survivors, while addressing inequities in access to cancer screening, diagnostics and treatment is a ...
By Grail, Inc.
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Velano’s Vascular Access Technologies Help Hospitals Meet 2021 Infusion Therapy Standards of Practice
SAN FRANCISCO, January 25, 2021 — Vascular access technology pioneer Velano Vascular today revealed that the 2021 Infusion Therapy Standards of Practice, 8th Ed., include its needle free PIVO™ device and evidence of the procedure’s improved performance for inpatient blood draws. Updated every five years and considered the preeminent guidance for infusion therapy, the newly reset ...
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Guardant Health Announces Shield™ Blood Test Available in US to Detect Early Signs of Colorectal Cancer in Average-Risk Adults
Highly sensitive Shield test offers convenient screening method that can be completed with simple blood draw, helping overcome barriers to compliance Test demonstrated sensitivity of 91% in colorectal cancer and 20% in advanced adenoma detection with specificity of 92% in validation studies PALO ALTO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Guardant Health, Inc. (Nasdaq: GH), a leading precision oncology ...
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BillionToOne to present single-gene NIPT poster at 40th SMFM conference
BillionToOne is presenting a poster on UNITY‘s single-gene NIPT at the 40th Annual Pregnancy Meeting by Society of Maternal Fetal Medicine. A non-invasive prenatal test for Alpha Thalassemia Hb Barts and Hb Constant Spring UNITY is the only prenatal screen that tests cell-free fetal DNA for cystic fibrosis, spinal muscular atrophy (SMA), sickle cell disease, and alpha and beta ...
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BrainScope Launches Next-Gen Medical Device: First and only FDA-cleared system for true point-of-care assessment of both concussion and brain bleeds now includes Concussion Index
BrainScope today announced the availability of its third groundbreaking FDA-cleared algorithm on the BrainScope device. The Concussion Index is the first physiological marker of concussive injury that aids clinicians in the objective assessment of patients at baseline, point of injury, and through recovery. The Concussion Index adds to the suite of FDA cleared algorithms already available on the ...
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Velano’s Vascular Access Technologies Help Hospitals Meet 2021 Infusion Therapy Standards of Practice
Vascular access technology pioneer Velano Vascular today revealed that the 2021 Infusion Therapy Standards of Practice, 8th Ed., include its needle free PIVO™ device and evidence of the procedure’s improved performance for inpatient blood draws. Updated every five years and considered the preeminent guidance for infusion therapy, the newly reset standards from the Infusion Nurses ...
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BillionToOne to present series of single-gene NIPT posters at 2020 ACMG Annual Clinical Genetics Meeting
BillionToOne, a venture-backed precision diagnostics company, is presenting series of posters at 2020 ACMG Annual Clinical Genetics Meeting on its single-gene NIPT technology and clinical data. UNITY improves clinical specificity for cystic fibrosis carrier screening UNITY is the only prenatal screen that tests cell-free fetal DNA for cystic fibrosis, spinal muscular atrophy (SMA), sickle cell ...
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Top 10 Emerging Technologies of 2020
If some of the many thousands of human volunteers needed to test coronavirus vaccines could have been replaced by digital replicas—one of this year’s Top 10 Emerging Technologies—COVID-19 vaccines might have been developed even faster, saving untold lives. Soon virtual clinical trials could be a reality for testing new vaccines and therapies. Other technologies on the list ...
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New Technology Leads to Decreased Hemolysis Rates
Laboratories in an increasing number of U. S. hospitals and healthcare systems are seeing significantly lower hemolysis rates in the blood specimens their staff are collecting with new technology designed for drawing blood with a single-use, sterile device that advances into the vein through a peripheral IV (PIV). The technology, PIVO (Velano Vascular, San Francisco, California), is ...
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Eg Technology Select Three EIT Health Catapult Winners For Most Innovative Product
As a sponsor of the award, eg have offered a total of 10 days’ worth of engineering expertise, shared amongst the winning three applicants, that can be used towards the realisation of their innovation. The first prize was awarded to Leuko, who will receive five days’ worth of engineering and development support with the eg technology engineering specialists. Leuko have created ...
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World Health Organization Recognizes MediPines AGM100 in 2021 Compendium for Innovative Health Technologies
ORANGE COUNTY, Calif., Sept. 21, 2021 /CNW/ — The World Health Organization (WHO) has just featured MediPines AGM100®, pulmonary gas exchange analyzer as an innovative technology in their 2021 compendium, “WHO compendium of innovative health technologies for low-resource settings”. This year’s annual assessment report provided much needed global awareness for ...
By MediPines
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Velano raises $15M to go beyond non-invasive blood tests
For most of us, getting blood drawn is an unpleasant, but necessary, part of life. For others, though, it’s extremely risky, if not impossible. Those people have what is known as difficult venous access (DVA), and they can include children, people witjh chronic illnesses, the elderly and people with diabetes, among others. Velano Vascular is a company that has developed a way to draw blood ...
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ISET technology applied to DLA products from NSCLC patients identified more CTC than other systems
We are enthusiastic to share the results of the research conducted by Dr Tamminga from the University of Groningen. ISET Technology applied to DLA products. This research opens a new interesting way to look at the very rare cancer cells in the patient bloodstream. Rarecells Diagnostics (France), a leading liquid biopsy company, is pleased to announce that the University Medical Center of ...
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