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Last Fiscal Year Sales:$17.5M
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Somnoplasty treats upper airway disorders including: habitual snoring, obstructive sleep apnea, chronic nasal obstruction from enlarged turbinates, and other sleep and breathing disorders.
Number of Employees 174
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2480 Mission St Ste 212
San Francisco, California 94110
1 501 227 5050
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NAICS Code Surgical and Medical Instrument Manufacturing: 339112
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Somnus Medical Technologies
A study in the May issue of Laryngoscope reported that chronic nasal obstruction patients breathed more freely after receiving treatment with the Somnus Medical Technologies (Sunnyvale, California) Somnoplasty system. The report, "Radiofrequency Energy Tissue Ablation for the Treatment of Nasal Obstruction Secondary to Turbinate Hypertrophy," indicated that patients whose nasal...
Tennessee Doctors Learn New Treatment for Serious Sleep Disorder.
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Dec. 17 -- A medical procedure that helps people stop snoring can now be used to treat a more serious condition -- obstructive sleep apnea. About 60 physicians spent last Saturday learning to use the somnoplasty system...
Lionel M. Nelson, M.D., Recruits Patients for Clinical Trial of Sleep Apnea Treatment; San Jose Physician to Lead Study of Somnoplasty System
SAN JOSE, Calif.--BW HealthWire--Dec. 9, 1998--Somnus Medical Technologies, Inc. (Nasdaq:SOMN), announced today that Lionel M. Nelson, M.D., is beginning a clinical trial with its SomnoplastySM System to treat obstructive sleep apnea OSA, a debilitating sleep and breathing disorder that affects 20 million Americans and is associated with 38,000 cardiac deaths...
FDA Clears First-of-its-Kind Device for Treatment of Sleep Disorder Affecting 20 Million Americans
SUNNYVALE, Calif.--BW HealthWire--Nov. 5, 1998--
Somnus Medical Technologies Names Kathryn Bowsher Vice President of Marketing
SUNNYVALE, Calif.--BW HealthWire--Oct. 14, 1998--Somnus Medical Technologies, Inc. (Nasdaq:SOMN), an innovator in developing unique, minimally invasive treatments for a variety of upper airway disorders, today named Kathryn Bowsher vice president of marketing. Bowsher was previously director of global marketing at Baxter International, Inc., and brings a strong background in international...
Physicians Report Efficacy and Safety of Radiofrequency Therapy in Treating Upper Airway Obstructions
SAN ANTONIO--BW HealthWire--Sept. 17, 1998-- Results Also Indicate Procedure Is Less Painful for Patients Than Conventional or Laser Surgery Somnus Medical Technologies, Inc. (Nasdaq:SOMN), announced today that...
Somnus Turns Down Volume On Nation's Snoring; Somnoplasty Quiets 81% of Snorers Treated with Radiofrequency Therapy
SUNNYVALE, Calif.--BW HealthWire--Aug. 25, 1998--Somnus Medical Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ:SOMN), an innovator in developing unique, minimally invasive treatments for a variety of upper airway disorders, today announced that physicians in more than 40 states have adopted the Somnoplastysm procedure for snoring in the year following U.S. Food and Drug Administration FDA...
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