Look for new dealflow, new investor faces and new funds in Research Triangle Park throughout the year.At the moment, the life science investing opportunities can look pretty dry. Intersouth Partners, a Durham, North Carolina venture capital firm, has about two deals left until its current fund runs out. The same probably goes for Durham-based Pappas [...]

Most life sciences events have an invitation-only event or two. But at the CED Life Science Conference this week there were literally two conferences going on at once: one that everyone could attend and constant, ongoing invitation-only sections for a select few.Before the conference began mid-day Wednesday in Raleigh, North Carolina, entrepreneurs and members of [...]

TearScience, the dry eye treatment company fresh off a 510(k) clearance, is starting to explore its options for an initial public offering. But if TearScience does go public, there’s a chance it won’t be on the New York Stock Exchange or NASDAQ.Think SSE, SZSE or HKEX.CEO Tim Willis told a crowd at the CED Life [...]

Always stick around for the last question at a life sciences panel. In a discussion entitled “How to survive in 2012 and beyond,” at the CED Life Science Conference in North Carolina, four life sciences CEOs discussed everything from the rough terrain for later-stage investments in healthcare (“A C-round is not for the faint of [...]

Healthcare was nowhere to be found between Budweiser and Clint Eastwood Super Bowl commercials. Instead, healthcare systems chose the local route for their 2012 Super Bowl advertising. If you were in California, Minnesota, Ohio, Virginia or other markets you saw local hospitals and healthcare Super Bowl ads.The Children’s National Medical Center in Washington, D.C. ran [...]

Healthcare is the economic engine of the United States: one of the few places that shows consistent job growth even in the face of global economic doldrums.But just because there are jobs doesn’t mean you would want them (no matter how much they pay). Healthcare reform, digital health and a global marketplace have thrown some [...]

This month is MedCityNews.com’s 3rd birthday. Over three years, with your help, we’ve grown from a site focused on healthcare innovation in Cleveland to the leading online portal reporting nationally on innovation and business-to-business insight for leaders in the healthcare and the life sciences.Knowing what our readers need has been a key to our success. [...]

A review of life science current events reported by MedCity News this week:10 cardiologists to follow on Twitter. Some notable cardiologists have embraced Twitter ’ one even wrote a useful guide to help cardiologists get started on it ’ and certainly more figure to adopt the technology as it becomes more ubiquitous in the future. [...]

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 YOU had to say:Med tech consolidation brings a need for focus. Here are 2 ways to get it. “The medical technology industry has grown quickly and [...]

I once told a physician friend that he and all doctors would eventually have to give up private practices and be employed by a hospital. “No,” he told me. “I will die with my boots on.”But do the dreaded hospital acquisitions of private practices actually empower doctors — and in particular, cardiologists? The Philadelphia Inquirer [...]