Apnimed will apply the IPO proceeds toward the regulatory process and launch plans of Oxnimbi, a once-nightly pill developed for obstructive sleep apnea. This drug is under FDA review with a February 2027 target date for a regulatory decision.
EnsoData raised $20 million in Series B funds for its AI-powered sleep diagnostics. The company’s technology aims to help clinicians diagnose sleep disorders faster and more consistently.
In an interview, Kyan Health Co-Founder and Chief Commercial Officer Konstantin Struck discussed how Kyan gives mid-market and enterprise employers access to premium workforce mental healthcare, at a price point that is affordable.
Somnology and the National Institutes of Health are joining forces to conduct much-needed research on sleep.
Dependence on sleeping pills is a problem for many people, but other therapies aren't always very successful. The designer of SleepCogni believes his device is the answer to not just monitoring sleep, but actually inducing it.
Shark Tank is pretty good at destroying the medical startups it puts on the show. It had more easy prey this week with Napwell, designed to make it easier to wake up from and avoid bad power naps. “I’ve never had a bad power nap,” Shark Mark Cuban says during Napwell’s pitch. Uh oh! Napwell […]
I don’t think our Bay Area health IT reporter Dan Verel wears a Jawbone UP. If he did, he would have been in the minority of the Napa/Sonoma/Vallejo/Berkley users who didn’t wake up during the Sunday morning earthquake in Northern California. When I texted him yesterday to make sure he was OK, he replied, “Yup, […]
Healthcare payments are no longer about transactions. It’s about controlling the revenue cycle. And increasingly, that control is not sitting with ISOs.
Another digital health sleep product will land in the U.S. later this year via a London-based company that’s just gotten its first venture round to expand. Big Health delivers personalized cognitive behavioral therapy programs through web and mobile platforms. Its first offering, Sleepio, is a six-week sleep improvement program that teaches people techniques to overcome […]
Apnex Medical, which is testing its implantable device to treat obstructive sleep apnea, announced Monday that it has raised $10 million.
Inspire Medical Systems, which has developed an implantable neurostimulation device to treat sleep apnea, announced Friday that it has raised $14.5 million in a series C round. New investors include Medtronic, which licensed the technology to Inspire back in 2007, and TGap Venture, while existing investors, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, US Venture Partners, Synergy […]
An early stage biotech startup focused on treating people who have trouble sleeping is looking for investors to provide $2.75 million. GliaCure Inc. was founded in 2011 to develop novel ways to treat sleep disorders. Its technique involves modulating the body’s production of a sleep-promoting compound called adenosine made by astrocytes, star-shaped glial cells in […]
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Only three companies are developing implanted devices to treat obstructive sleep apnea, a condition that affects about 18 million people. On Tuesday, Apnex Medical, one of two sleep apnea treatment startups based in Minnesota, became the second company to get clearance from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration on a clinical trial to test its […]
A review of life science current events reported by MedCity News this week: Obstructive sleep apnea treatment will change. But who will lead the way? Inspire Medical Systems and Apnex Medical, both from Minnesota, are technically similar in that both companies are developing technologies that sense respiration and deliver mild stimulation to treat obstructive sleep […]
Three medical device companies are poised to drastically change obstructive sleep apnea treatment forever. But is sleep apnea big enough for all of them? The three have developed an implantable neurostimulation therapy to treat patients who suffer moderate to severe obstructive sleep apnea (OSA). They have raised a fair amount of money from investors. And […]
Huneo is all about the data. The young Cleveland-area startup is looking to use its IT expertise to help capture and send data in real time to several different types of doctors for a number of different health applications — sleep studies, heart studies and athletic performance monitoring, for example. Huneo is looking to fill […]
A study shows that medical devices using continuous positive airway pressure lower the fatigue of individuals suffering from obstructive sleep apnea. Individuals with obstructive sleep apnea may have a new therapy to relieve their symptoms of fatigue, a study shows. Researchers at the University of California, Davis and San Diego State University tested a medical […]