DURHAM, N.C.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 5, 2026--
HemoSonics LLC, a medical device company focused on acute bleeding management, today announced that its Quantra® Hemostasis System for Obstetric Procedureswon Silver in 2026 Edison Awards in the Women’s Health and Reproductive Innovations category. The Quantra Hemostasis System is the first and only viscoelastic testing (VET) platform to be FDA-cleared for obstetric bleeding. It delivers fast, real-time coagulation insights at the point of need, helping protect women at risk of peripartum hemorrhage by providing clinicians with actionable data.
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Postpartum hemorrhage (PPH) – severe bleeding after childbirth – is the leading cause of maternal mortality globally, according to the World Health Organization. More than 14 million women experience PPH annually, contributing to approximately 70,000 deaths worldwide. The United States reports 21.1 deaths per 100,000 live births, nearly double the average for the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) countries, with more than 10% of maternal deaths attributed to bleeding.
“HemoSonics is committed to fighting maternal mortality caused by severe bleeding, which is why we are particularly proud to receive the Silver award at the 2026 Edison Awards in the Women’s Health and Reproductive Innovations category,” said Francesco Viola, Founder and Chief Scientific Officer, HemoSonics. “After the recent expansion of the Quantra Hemostasis System to the obstetric population, a growing number of top hospitals in the U.S. are using our technology to help women have safe and healthy deliveries, by empowering clinicians with actionable data when and where it’s needed.”
The Quantra Hemostasis System includes the Quantra Hemostasis Analyzer with QPlus® and QStat Cartridges. The QStat Cartridge received 510(k) clearance from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for expanded use in peripartum obstetric procedures in August 2025. The device uses innovative SEER Sonorheometry (Sonic Estimation of Elasticity via Resonance), a proprietary ultrasound technology that measures the coagulation properties of a whole blood sample. With results typically delivered in less than 15 minutes, the Quantra System empower clinicians with information to make timely, individualized, evidence-based decisions regarding the management of bleeding patients, which lead to optimized blood product use and improved patient outcomes. The Quantra System requires minimal resources to maintain, is easy to operate and interpret, and provides fast, comprehensive whole-blood coagulation analysis at the point of need.
Named after American inventor Thomas Edison, the Edison Awards annually recognize the world’s most innovative products and business leaders. The prestigious accolade honors excellence in new product and service development, marketing, human-centered design and innovation. Edison Award winners are selected from thousands of global submissions and evaluated by an independent panel of senior scientists, engineers, designers, and industry leaders who assess each innovation on their concept, value and impact. The result is a unique group that represents not just the year's best new products but also the innovations that will define the next generation. HemoSonics previously won Silver in the 2024 Edison Awards in the health, medical and biotechnology category.
About HemoSonics
HemoSonics, LLC is a medical device technology company focused on acute bleeding management, improving patient care and reducing overall medical costs. The Quantra Hemostasis System, HemoSonics' flagship product, is designed to improve patient outcomes and reduce healthcare costs by providing optimized coagulation information. The Quantra System's easy, fast interpretation enables simple, more efficient bleeding management at the point of care and in the laboratory.
Based in Durham, NC, HemoSonics is part of the Stago Group, a leading in vitro diagnostics company dedicated to advancing research in thrombosis and hemostasis. Follow HemoSonics on LinkedIn or visit HemoSonics.com to learn more.
About the Edison Awards
Established in 1987, the Edison Awards recognize, honor, and foster innovation and innovators. Named after Thomas Alva Edison (1847-1931), the annual competition honors excellence in new product and service development, marketing, human-centered design and innovation. Past award recipients include Jony Ive, Martha Stewart, Carmichael Roberts and companies leading in innovation, including Nest, now part of Google, AMD, Intel, Naqi, 3M and Cargill. For more information, visit www.edisonawards.com.
The HemoSonics Quantra Hemostasis System provides comprehensive blood analysis. It delivers rapid, real-time coagulation insights at the point of need, empowering clinicians with actionable data to make better decisions and protect mothers who experience postpartum hemorrhage during childbirth. Quantra is the first and only cartridge-based, FDA-cleared viscoelastic testing (VET) platform for obstetrics.
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — As civil rights advocates protest, Republican lawmakers in several Southern states are seizing on the opportunity afforded by a U.S. Supreme Court ruling to redraw congressional districts ahead of the November midterm elections.
The latest state to jump on the redistricting bandwagon is Tennessee, where a special legislative session is to begin Tuesday, a day after a similar session kicked off in Alabama. In Louisiana, lawmakers also are making plans for new U.S. House districts after the Supreme Court last week struck down the state's current map.
The high court’s ruling said Louisiana relied too heavily on race when creating a second Black-majority House district as it attempted to comply with the Voting Rights Act. The ruling last week significantly altered a decades-old understanding of the law, giving Republicans in various states grounds to try to eliminate majority-Black districts that have elected Democrats.
It could lessen congressional representation for Black Americans and other minorities, reversing decades of gains in minority voting rights.
President Donald Trump has been encouraging more states to join in redistricting as Republicans seek to hold on to their narrow House majority in this year’s elections.
Alabama lawmakers heard testimony Tuesday on legislation that would allow a special congressional primary, if the Supreme Court clears the way for the state to change its U.S. House districts.
In light of the court's ruling on Louisiana's districts, Alabama officials have asked the high court to set aside a judicial order to use a U.S. House map that includes two districts with a substantial number of Black voters and instead let the state revert to a map previously passed by Republican lawmakers. That map could help the GOP win at least one of those two seats currently held by Democrats.
Alabama's primaries are scheduled for May 19. If the Supreme Court grants the state's request after or too close to the primary, the legislation under consideration would ignore the results of that primary and direct the governor to schedule a new primary under the revised districts.
“This is the voice of the people,” Alabama House Speaker Nathaniel Ledbetter said while promoting the Republican plan. “We had three judges determine how five million people were supposed to vote, and I don’t think that’s the way.”
During a House committee hearing, several Black residents urged lawmakers not to change the current congressional districts.
“Representation matters — not just politically but in access, in power and in who gets to be heard,” said Eliza Jane Franklin, of rural Barbour County.
Republican Gov. Bill Lee called Tennessee lawmakers into a special session to consider a plan that could break up the state’s lone Democratic-held U.S. House district, centered on the majority-Black city of Memphis. The move comes after pressure from Trump.
The candidate qualifying period in Tennessee ended in March, and the primary election is scheduled for Aug. 6.
Some clergy members have denounced the plan to split Memphis’ congressional district, and Martin Luther King III sent a letter to Tennessee legislative leaders expressing “grave concern” about it.
“This decision undermines the work that my father, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., carried out to help secure passage of the Voting Rights Act,” he wrote, noting that his father was assassinated in Memphis. He added: “Do not dismantle the only Congressional district that provides Black voters in Memphis a fair opportunity to have a voice in our democracy. Do not take this nation back to the days of Jim Crow.”
After last week’s Supreme Court decision, Louisiana moved to delay its May 16 congressional primary to allow time for lawmakers to approve new U.S. House districts.
Louisiana state Sen. Caleb Kleinpeter, a Republican who chairs a Senate committee tasked with redistricting, told The Associated Press that his committee plans to hold a public hearing Friday. Kleinpeter said lawmakers are still weighing their options, including bills that would eliminate one or both of the state’s two majority-Black Congressional districts.
Democrats and civil rights groups have filed several lawsuits challenging the suspension of Louisiana's congressional primary. They are encouraging people in Louisiana — where early voting already is underway — to go ahead and cast votes in the congressional primaries in case courts later allow them to be counted.
Legislative voting districts typically are redrawn only once a decade, after a census, to account for population changes. But Trump urged Texas Republicans last year to redraw U.S. House districts to give the party an advantage. Democrats in California responded by doing the same, and then other states joined in.
Florida became the eighth state to enact new House districts when Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis announced on Monday he had signed a redrawn map passed by the GOP-controlled Legislature. It could help Republicans win as many as four additional House seats. The new map was immediately challenged in court as a partisan gerrymander that violates a Florida constitutional provision against drawing districts that favor one political party over another.
All told, Republicans think they could gain as many as 13 seats from new congressional districts in five states, while Democrats think they could pick up as many as 10 seats from new districts adopted in three states. The newly proposed redistricting in Southern states could add to the Republicans’ tally.
Chandler reported from Montgomery, Alabama, and Lieb from Jefferson City, Missouri. Associated Press writers Jack Brook in New Orleans and Nicholas Riccardi in Denver contributed to this report.
FILE - Pansies bloom in front of the Alabama Statehouse in Montgomery, Ala., April 11, 2008. (AP Photo/Dave Martin, File)
FILE - The Tennessee Capitol is seen, Jan. 22, 2024, in Nashville, Tenn. (AP Photo/George Walker IV, File)
