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Happy Memorial Day, a timetable for GSK’s CEO and closing a key part of the innovation gap (Morning Read)

Also, publishing will be light today because of the Memorial Day in the United States.

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Because of the Memorial Day Holiday in the United States, MedCity News publishing will be light today.

MIT’s President, on a gap in innovation: ideas created from new-science technologies.

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Major shareholders are saying that GSK’s Andrew Witty has time, for the moment, to keep changing GSK.

“With shares badly underperforming, there need to be some positive signs soon, or pressure could build up against the chief executive,” said a top 20 GSK shareholder. “The company says growth will revive by next year. They have to achieve that.”

LIFE SCIENCE

Quintiles has rolled out a new product for Asia-Pacific biopharmaceutical companies.

SciBase has cleared a U.S. patent hurdle for its its electrodes with micro-needles

Results of NeuroVive Pharmaceutical’s phase III CIRCUS study of CicloMulsion in patients with an ST-segment elevation acute myocardial infarction will now land in Q3.

PAYERS-PROVIDERS

A more in-depth look at flakka, the latest drug concoction coming your way.

Will more cities ban e-cigarettes?

A resident’s farewell to the overnight call shift in her residency: “What you do on the average day at work, if your colleagues feel supported or unsupported, if your work leaves patients feeling cared for, if you managed whatever major things they were seeing you for, that’s what matters the most.”

TECH

Have investors insulated themselves from the next tech bubble with the bodies of founders and startup employees?

We have a list of muse-use Apple Watch health apps. Are enough people using the Apple Watch for health to be able to make this list?

POLITICS

A great summary of reports that show Obamacare hasn’t solved medical debt.

A LITTLE EXTRA

What Silicon Valley’s cool kids are drinking. It. Sounds. Disgusting.

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