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 conflicts-of-interest with Medtronic.

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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 and these changes should help Raleigh, North Carolina company BioDelivery Sciences International (NASDAQ:BDSI). Here’s how.BDSI’s product Onsolis delivers the painkiller fentanyl through a small piece [...]

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 they lost their own lives in an early morning helicopter crash on Monday, says one colleague in tribute videos posted on the hospital’s blog.Because the [...]

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 the market with a demand for toys and diapers in the 1950s, so are they now flooding the market with a need for increased health [...]

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, which has offices in Princeton, New Jersey and Vancouver, British Columbia, has raised $2.57 million of its $5 million target through equity, options and securities. [...]

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 million to do it.Chelsea aims to raise up to $19.7 million through a stock offering of more than 65 million shares, according to an updated [...]

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 tumors in studies.

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 the life sciences and healthcare has started to take to the web. Now more than ever, concepts that will change healthcare forever were starting not [...]

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 500 has regularly taken a big bite out of the Big Apple.But at the other end of the dial, small businesses — at least the [...]