Next year is the dawning of a new age in American health care. On Jan. 1, the major insurance reforms embedded in the Affordable Care Act (ACA) take effect. Every ...
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New drugs spurred along by research at Pfizer Inc. laboratories in Groton couldn't provide enough lift to make up for losses in the company's established portfolio as the firm announced ...
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Alexion Pharmaceuticals Inc., which will begin construction on a new headquarters in New Haven in June, today posted first quarter profits of $82.2 million, or 41 cents a share, compared ...
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April 25, 2013 7:07 am by Stannard, Ed | 0 Comments
NEW HAVEN -- A screening test performed on a newborn's placenta can help determine the risk of that child developing autism, according to research at the Yale School of Medicine ...
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April 11, 2013 4:40 am by Howard, Lee | 0 Comments
A local group formed a year ago by a former Pfizer Inc. scientist to encourage start-up companies here has joined with the region's chief economic-development agency to create the SECT ...
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Michael Ellison has a tough assignment. He's the associate dean of admissions choosing the first class of a brand new medical school, the Frank H. Netter MD School of Medicine ...
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Medical device maker Covidien, which has operations in New Haven and North Haven, won a patent infringement case in U.S. District Judge Janet Bond Arterton's court in New Haven Thursday.Covidien ...
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The story of mobile health startup PharmaSecure begins with two college roommates, some time in the mid-2000s. Nathan Sigworth had spent a summer volunteering at a hospital in India. His ...
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March 25, 2013 6:13 am by Phil Galewitz | 0 Comments
HARTFORD, Conn. — In the nation’s insurance capital, the hunt to find uninsured people and get them enrolled in the state’s new online health insurance marketplace has already begun.Officials working for ...
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The 3-D printing technology hits just keep on coming. Everyone and their brother seems to be testing the capabilities of 3-D printers for medical applications creating artificial ears, vaccines, feet ...
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One of the components of healthcare reform that goes right along with improving outcomes is getting people to take more responsibility for their health — no easy feat, particularly for ...
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It’s been quite a season for innovative responses to infectious diseases so far, ranging from Twitter tools that track outbreaks to the app that informs users which plague they need ...
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Boston might be the top hub for life sciences in the U.S., but there are lots of cities hot on its tail.In addition to ranking the top 10 clusters for ...
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There’s getting patients to take their medications, and then there’s convincing big pharmaceutical companies that they should invest in innovative ways to try to get patients to take their medications.The ...
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A West Haven pharmaceutical company working on anti-influenza drugs has received the second half of a $5 million investment announced earlier this year by a Florida-based private equity firm.NanoViricides received ...
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