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Cardinal Health, Eli Lilly collaborate on Alzheimer’s imaging agent

Cardinal Health, Eli Lilly collaborate on Alzheimer’s imaging agent

June 1, 2012 10:07 am by | 0 Comments

Cardinal Health (NYSE:CAH) will manufacture and distribute a radioactive imaging agent from Eli Lilly (NYSE:LLY) that could help doctors diagnose Alzheimer’s disease.The imaging agent, called Amyvid, is scheduled for commercial ... Read more

Cleveland Clinic adds cardiology services to affiliation deal with Chicago-area hospital

Cleveland Clinic adds cardiology services to affiliation deal with Chicago-area hospital

May 31, 2012 11:08 am by | 0 Comments

Chicago-area health system Cadence Health has reached its third affiliation agreement with Cleveland Clinic, with the latest deal covering cardiology services.For hospital systems like Cadence, affiliation agreements with Cleveland Clinic ... Read more


Is it time for the venture capital industry to ditch the 2-and-20 pay model?

Is it time for the venture capital industry to ditch the 2-and-20 pay model?

May 31, 2012 10:17 am by | 1 Comments

The 2-and-20 compensation structure for venture capital funds is a one-size-fits-all approach that misaligns incentives and can help VCs to get paid handsomely while their funds perform abysmally.That was one ... Read more

Personalized medicine test maker AssureRx raises $12.5M series C round

Personalized medicine test maker AssureRx raises $12.5M series C round

May 30, 2012 4:31 pm by | 0 Comments

Personalized medicine test maker AssureRx Health has raised a $12.5 million series C round of investment that it’ll use to help commercialize its tests that help doctors pick the right ... Read more

Do wellness incentive plans really reduce costs?

Do wellness incentive plans really reduce costs?

May 30, 2012 3:29 pm by | 0 Comments

Corporate America has jumped on the wellness trend with both feet, but is it a leap worth taking?Germany has more experience with wellness incentives, so researchers affiliated with the Commonwealth ... Read more

MRI-guided radiation therapy device from ViewRay gets FDA clearance

MRI-guided radiation therapy device from ViewRay gets FDA clearance

May 30, 2012 12:03 pm by | 0 Comments

An MRI-based system that delivers radiation therapy to cancer patients has received 510(k) clearance from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.It’s a “major milestone” for Cleveland-area ViewRay, which in March ... Read more

Wound healing startup SironRX hires new CEO, gets OK on clinical trial

Wound healing startup SironRX hires new CEO, gets OK on clinical trial

May 30, 2012 10:34 am by | 0 Comments

Regenerative medicine wound healing company SironRX Therapeutics has hired a first-time CEO as its first-ever, full-time CEO.Evan Facher most recently worked as general manager of Pittsburgh interventional operations with MedRad, ... Read more


Two Cleveland Clinic docs climb Mount Kilimanjaro with sons

Two Cleveland Clinic docs climb Mount Kilimanjaro with sons

May 30, 2012 9:02 am by | 0 Comments

Two Cleveland Clinic physicians climbed Africa’s highest peak with their sons — one a 24-year-old who is blind.Dr. Glen Stevens, a neurologist, and Dr. Alan Taege, the Clinic’s director of ... Read more

New decision-support tool to help doctors follow cancer, arthritis best practices

New decision-support tool to help doctors follow cancer, arthritis best practices

May 29, 2012 2:33 pm by | 1 Comments

New decision support technology from Cardinal Health (NYSE:CAH) is designed to help physicians follow cancer and rheumatoid arthritis “clinical pathways” — evidence-based treatment regimens.The new technology, called PathWare Solutions, would ... Read more

5 healthcare big data Twitter users to follow

5 healthcare big data Twitter users to follow

May 29, 2012 12:21 pm by | 1 Comments

Spend a little while following the #bigdata hashtag on Twitter and you won’t hear a lot about healthcare.That’s a little surprising given big data‘s supposed promise to healthcare: A McKinsey ... Read more

Top Ohio State neurosurgeon leaving for Brigham & Women’s

Top Ohio State neurosurgeon leaving for Brigham & Women’s

May 29, 2012 9:03 am by | 0 Comments

A key doctor who was recruited to Ohio State University nearly a decade ago to build the university’s neurosurgery department is leaving for Brigham and Women’s Hospital.Dr. E. Antonio Chiocca ... Read more

Why one VC thinks now’s a great time to be a healthcare investor

Why one VC thinks now’s a great time to be a healthcare investor

May 29, 2012 8:43 am by | 1 Comments

Don’t tell Ted Driscoll now’s a bad time to be a healthcare investor.Despite frequent industry complaints of an overly burdesome regulatory environment and a soft IPO market, the Claremont Creek ... Read more

Software fast enough for custom-made cancer treatments?

Software fast enough for custom-made cancer treatments?

May 25, 2012 2:12 pm by | 0 Comments

A new approach to review the genetic makeup of cancer patients and their tumors could enable customized cancer treatments.It’s been too hard for scientists to analyze peoples’ genetic data. Figuring ... Read more

Cleveland Clinic patient becomes ‘ridiculously photogenic surgery girl’

Cleveland Clinic patient becomes ‘ridiculously photogenic surgery girl’

May 25, 2012 10:15 am by | 11 Comments

A Cleveland Clinic patient who posted a picture of herself while in the hospital for an operation to remove 60 percent of one of her lungs has become a popular ... Read more

Drug discovery startup Carmolex raises $600k in equity

Drug discovery startup Carmolex raises $600k in equity

May 25, 2012 9:58 am by | 0 Comments

A drug discovery startup that lays claim to “the largest chemical libraries in the world” has raised $600,000 in equity, according to a regulatory filing.Pittsburgh-based Carmolex says its library contains ... Read more