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Doctors divided on usefulness of pollen count app for smartphones

Doctors divided on usefulness of pollen count app for smartphones

May 17, 2013 3:37 am by | 0 Comments

Kate O'Reilly's spring allergy survival kit includes the usual stuff -- nasal sprays, allergy pills and a box of tissues. This season, she's added a new weapon to her line ... Read more
The numbers game and the new edition of the psychiatrists’ manual

The numbers game and the new edition of the psychiatrists’ manual

May 17, 2013 12:05 am by | 0 Comments

NEW YORK (Reuters) - The long-awaited, controversial new edition of the bible of psychiatry can be characterized by many numbers: its 947 pages, its $199 price tag, its more than ... Read more
37th time the charm? Not likely, as U.S. House votes again to repeal Obamacare

37th time the charm? Not likely, as U.S. House votes again to repeal Obamacare

May 16, 2013 7:00 pm by | 0 Comments

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Republican-controlled U.S. House of Representatives voted to repeal President Barack Obama's healthcare reform law on Thursday in a symbolic move aimed as much at healing internal ... Read more
Qualcomm CTO explains why telecomm & the BRAIN Initiative are actually a good fit

Qualcomm CTO explains why telecomm & the BRAIN Initiative are actually a good fit

May 16, 2013 5:27 pm by | 0 Comments

Telecomm giant Qualcomm Technologies Inc. is no stranger to the world of connected health, but its interest in healthcare actually reaches much further than that.Today, Qualcomm CTO Matt Grob was ... Read more
Cambridge firm uses next-generation DNA sequencing to detect more mutations in carrier screening

Cambridge firm uses next-generation DNA sequencing to detect more mutations in carrier screening

May 16, 2013 3:39 pm by | 0 Comments

 When a company sets out to enter a market inhabited by heavyweights like LabCorp and Quest Diagnostics, it better have something good. Good Start Genetics has applied next-generation DNA sequencing ... Read more
Ben Chodor steps down as Happtique CEO amidst changes

Ben Chodor steps down as Happtique CEO amidst changes

May 16, 2013 2:36 pm by | 0 Comments

Happtique, a mobile health company that has been part of a national debate on how mobile health apps should be regulated and certified, has made changes to its senior management, ... Read more
Adding plant-derived steroids to red yeast rice doesn’t help lower LDL levels

Adding plant-derived steroids to red yeast rice doesn’t help lower LDL levels

May 16, 2013 1:44 pm by | 0 Comments

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Adding a plant-derived compound called a sterol to the cholesterol-lowering agent red yeast rice doesn't make it work any better, according to a new study."I ... Read more
Myriad Genetics’ stock rises after Jolie’s double mastectomy announcement

Myriad Genetics’ stock rises after Jolie’s double mastectomy announcement

May 16, 2013 12:43 pm by | 0 Comments

The revelation this week by the film star Angelina Jolie of a double mastectomy to help avoid breast cancer had business and legal angles as well.Myriad Genetics, the Utah company ... Read more
Source reveals Sweden’s Recipharm is seeking advice on a partial sale or listing

Source reveals Sweden’s Recipharm is seeking advice on a partial sale or listing

May 16, 2013 12:00 pm by | 0 Comments

STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Sweden's Recipharm has hired UBS to advise on either a partial sale of the pharmaceutical company or a listing on the Stockholm exchange, a source close to ... Read more
Researchers map out “sepsis hotspots” to better understand hospital acquired infections

Researchers map out “sepsis hotspots” to better understand hospital acquired infections

May 16, 2013 11:39 am by | 1 Comments

There’s nothing quite like a map to give you a better sense of proportion and to help understand the scope of a disease. That’s the approach one group of researchers ... Read more
With a band of biotech collaborators, RuiYi sets sail developing new biologic drugs for China

With a band of biotech collaborators, RuiYi sets sail developing new biologic drugs for China

May 16, 2013 9:37 am by | 0 Comments

The La Jolla, California, biotech formerly known as Anaphore is looking a little different these days. Under the leadership of former Fate Therapeutics CEO Paul Grayson, Anaphore changed its name ... Read more
The IRS and its role in the Affordable Care Act

The IRS and its role in the Affordable Care Act

May 16, 2013 9:24 am by | 0 Comments

Mary Agnes Carey talks to Joanna Kerpen, a partner at the law firm McDermott Will & Emery, about the role of the IRS in implementing and enforcing provisions of the ... Read more
FDA warning didn’t decrease use of drug in for-profit dialysis centers

FDA warning didn’t decrease use of drug in for-profit dialysis centers

May 16, 2013 9:07 am by | 0 Comments

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Despite a strong warning from U.S. regulators in 2007, for-profit dialysis centers still gave their kidney failure patients more of a certain anemia drug than ... Read more
Despite early reports Novartis has no plans to buy Actavis

Despite early reports Novartis has no plans to buy Actavis

May 16, 2013 8:57 am by | 0 Comments

ZURICH (Reuters) - Novartis has no plans to bid for U.S.-based generic drugmaker Actavis, which is the subject of intense takeover speculation, a spokesman for the Swiss drugmaker said on ... Read more
Bayer will buy German herbal medicine maker Steigerwald

Bayer will buy German herbal medicine maker Steigerwald

May 16, 2013 7:44 am by | 0 Comments

FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Germany's largest drugmaker Bayer said it agreed to buy privately held Steigerwald Arzneimittelwerk GmbH, a maker of herbal treatments.Bayer said on Thursday that Steigerwald, based in Darmstadt, ... Read more