September 10, 2014 — ResMed announced results from a study presented at the 2014 European Society of Cardiology (ESC) Congress in Barcelona, Spain, looking at the use of the at-home, contactless, bedside SleepMinder device to diagnose sleep-disordered breathing (SDB), the most common co-morbidity in patients with heart failure (HF).

September 9, 2014 — Tryton Medical Inc. announced an initial closing of an aggregate $20 million private equity financing. Participating in this financing were existing investors RiverVest Venture Partners and 3x5 Special Opportunity Fund, joined by new investor Canepa Advanced Healthcare Fund and an unnamed investor.

Claret Medical Inc. vascular and cardiac surgery procedures, announced that it has entered into an agreement for up to $18 million in a Series B financing.

Cook Medical has enrolled the first patient in the clinical study in China of its Zilver PTX Drug Eluting Peripheral Stent. The case was performed by one of the study’s principal investigators, Prof. Peng Liu, M.D., at the China-Japan Friendship Hospital in Beijing.