TOP STORIES
Look beyond the simple disaster that will be Celladon, which announced its heart failure treatment, Mydicar, slumped in clinical trials. What will it do to stocks like Bluebird Bio, UniQure or Spark Therapeutics?
Oschner Health System is giving Apple Watches to patients with high-blood-pressure problems.
Behavioral Health, Interoperability and eConsent: Meeting the Demands of CMS Final Rule Compliance
In a webinar on April 16 at 1pm ET, Aneesh Chopra will moderate a discussion with executives from DocuSign, Velatura, and behavioral health providers on eConsent, health information exchange and compliance with the CMS Final Rule on interoperability.
You saw it coming: “Nearly 40% of doctors, other providers with Medicare patients will have payments docked 1.5% this year after failing to submit data,” CMS says.
LIFE SCIENCE
Is it Theranos backlash? Or is it something worse?
Bristol-Myers Squibb’s daclatasvir helps cure hepatitis C in 90 percent of patients when paired with Sovaldi and ribavirin. Now what’s the price tag?
A Deep-dive Into Specialty Pharma
A specialty drug is a class of prescription medications used to treat complex, chronic or rare medical conditions. Although this classification was originally intended to define the treatment of rare, also termed “orphan” diseases, affecting fewer than 200,000 people in the US, more recently, specialty drugs have emerged as the cornerstone of treatment for chronic and complex diseases such as cancer, autoimmune conditions, diabetes, hepatitis C, and HIV/AIDS.
Stempeutics’ stem cell drug Stempeucel is the first company to get a process patient for a stem-cell treatment in China
Here are the 11 drugs, including Bristol-Myers Squibb’s melanoma treatment Opdivo, that are recommended for approval in Europe.
PAYERS-PROVIDERS
Public health officials are moving quickly on the latest strain of bird flu.
More tangible evidence of what we’re missing because of underfunded research.
A healthcare hero in Nepal. Cardiologist Ellen Gallant stepped in to help earthquake victims.
The end of pimping as we know it?
Critics say med students can’t possibly master so much information, which quickly becomes outdated anyway. Instead, the new theory goes, students should be taught and evaluated on their ability to find, assess and synthesize knowledge. And they should be educated in teams to help prepare them for what goes on in the real world.
TECH
The Apple Watch includes deactivated oxygen sensors.
Sadness in Nepal. Google X’s privacy lead Dan Fredinburg was killed in the earthquake.
POLITICS
American elections will have Obamacare. In the U.K., it’s the National Health Service under voter scrutiny.
A LITTLE EXTRA
Savor the Hubble anniversary with amazing photos and this latest eye candy, published last week.
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