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Details, implications of the Mayo Clinic helicopter accident (Weekend Rounds)

Details, implications of the Mayo Clinic helicopter accident (Weekend Rounds)

December 31, 2011 8:50 am by | 0 Comments

Important life science current events from this week include Mayo Clinic helicopter crash, ten movies that portray pharmaceutical companies negatively, and an influential UW chairman takes heat for royalties and ... Read more
Here’s what cloud computing means in healthcare (Best of MedCitizens)

Here’s what cloud computing means in healthcare (Best of MedCitizens)

December 31, 2011 8:40 am by | 2 Comments

Every week, MedCity News highlights the best of its MedCitizens: syndication partners and MedCity News readers who discuss life science current events on MedCityNews.com. Now here's the best of what ... Read more
How FDA changes to ‘REMS’ rules helps BioDelivery Sciences

How FDA changes to ‘REMS’ rules helps BioDelivery Sciences

December 30, 2011 3:14 pm by | 0 Comments

Some opioid painkillers used by cancer patients are governed by U.S. Food and Drug Administration plans to manage possible health risks. The FDA is changing how it manages these drugs ... Read more
On the heels of Mayo Clinic crash, a brief on medical helicopter safety

On the heels of Mayo Clinic crash, a brief on medical helicopter safety

December 30, 2011 2:13 pm by | 0 Comments

Mayo Clinic procurement technician David Hines and cardiovascular surgeon Dr. Louis Bonilla were doing what they do every day — procuring an organ to save a patient’s life — when ... Read more
9 Health Care Jobs Expected to Grow by 2018

9 Health Care Jobs Expected to Grow by 2018

December 30, 2011 1:14 pm by | 1 Comments

In the midst of a struggling economy, there is one sector that is rapidly growing ’ booming, in fact. That sector is health care. Just as the baby boomers flooded ... Read more
Celator Pharmaceuticals raising $5 million for cancer treatments

Celator Pharmaceuticals raising $5 million for cancer treatments

December 30, 2011 12:30 pm by | 0 Comments

Celator Pharmaceuticals, a drug development company, is raising $5 million as its drug therapy for acute myeloid leukemia moves through phase 2 clinical trials.In its latest financing round, the company, ... Read more
Chelsea Therapeutics to raise $19.7M for new drug launch and drug pipeline

Chelsea Therapeutics to raise $19.7M for new drug launch and drug pipeline

December 30, 2011 11:28 am by | 0 Comments

Chelsea Therapeutics (NASDAQ:CHTP) is preparing for the launch of its first product — a drug for Parkinson’s disease patients — and the company plans to arm itself with nearly $20 ... Read more
After being dumped by Abbott, Emergent BioSolutions carries on (Morning Read)

After being dumped by Abbott, Emergent BioSolutions carries on (Morning Read)

December 30, 2011 8:32 am by | 0 Comments

Current medical news from today, including Emergent BioSciences rebounds after Abbott pulls the plug on cancer drug partnership, searching for a cure for the hangover, and Avastin stabilizes ovarian cancer ... Read more
2011 healthcare innovation: Medtronic’s Ishrak, mHealth and more

2011 healthcare innovation: Medtronic’s Ishrak, mHealth and more

December 30, 2011 6:00 am by | 0 Comments

Healthcare doesn’t do “memes” — at least not as much as the tech industry does.But 2011 showed that is changing. Amid the tidal wave-sized trends like healthcare reform, innovation in ... Read more
Entrepreneurship center opens for Big Apple innovators

Entrepreneurship center opens for Big Apple innovators

December 29, 2011 5:40 pm by | 0 Comments

New York City has long been home to the big, brawny business monolith. From Wall Street firms like Goldman Sachs to huge media empires to CBS and Time-Warner, the Fortune ... Read more
Paging emerging health IT startups: DreamIt Ventures wants (to find) you

Paging emerging health IT startups: DreamIt Ventures wants (to find) you

December 29, 2011 3:58 pm by | 0 Comments

Why haven’t you seen more health IT companies accepted into DreamIt Ventures East Coast accelerators?DreamIt doesn’t know where to find them.“Health IT is interesting to us, but it’s never been ... Read more
Hospira class actions claim company failed to disclose problems at N.C. plant

Hospira class actions claim company failed to disclose problems at N.C. plant

December 29, 2011 3:32 pm by | 3 Comments

Hospira (NYSE:HSP) completed a two-year “restructuring and optimization plan” this year that the company expressly stated would increase shareholder value by generating annualized savings between $110 million and $140 million. ... Read more
Meridian Bioscience CEO got 3 percent raise in 2011

Meridian Bioscience CEO got 3 percent raise in 2011

December 29, 2011 12:07 pm by | 0 Comments

Diagnostic test maker Meridian Bioscience‘s (NYSE:VIVO) Chief Executive Jack Kraeutler received a 3 percent increase in compensation this year to $843,000.Here’s how Kraeutler’s 2011 compensation breaks down, according to a ... Read more
Synthes suit accuses Stryker of stealing trade secrets

Synthes suit accuses Stryker of stealing trade secrets

December 29, 2011 11:58 am by | 0 Comments

Synthes is back in court, this time as the plaintiff in a lawsuit against Stryker Corp. (NYSE: SYK) accusing the Michigan-based medical device company of trying to obtain “an improper ... Read more
NovaTarg preps for 2012 IND filing for hepatitis C drug candidate

NovaTarg preps for 2012 IND filing for hepatitis C drug candidate

December 29, 2011 11:53 am by | 0 Comments

Drug discovery startup NovaTarg is ramping up preclinical research in preparation of an expected investigational new drug application filing for the company’s first drug candidate — a new hepatitis C ... Read more