In its second wind as a company, Esperion Therapeutics (once owned by Pfizer) has just collected $33 million to continue with clinical trials of its cholesterol-lowering drug.Plymouth, Michigan-based Esperion is ...
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To reduce costs for insurers, hospitals and patients, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan announced today that its new, pioneering contract with all of Trinity Health 12 hospitals and provides ...
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In Alabama, if you get your health insurance through your employer and you lose your job, you quickly realize there aren't a lot options for purchasing coverage on your own. ...
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When donors give blood, the components of that blood most commonly used by hospitals, red blood cells, are refrigerated and stored for up to six weeks, at which point it’s ...
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March 28, 2013 5:22 am by Witsil, Frank | 0 Comments
Lois Gridley wasn't feeling well. She had just taken her 10-year-old son to the pediatrician and he had strep throat. She worried she might have it, too.But she couldn't get ...
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(Reuters) - Aastrom Biosciences Inc said it would end the late-stage trial of its drug to treat critical limb ischemia - a form of peripheral arterial disease - and cut ...
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(Reuters) - Orthopedic implant maker Stryker Corp said it received a warning letter from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration related to quality concerns at its Portage, Michigan facility.The letter ...
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Doctors and surgeons are used to recommending back braces for patients who have back pain or have had surgery, but as it happens, many of them could probably benefit from ...
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They say imitation is the best form of flattery.In announcing that it was buying Chinese orthopedics company Trauson Holdings Company Limited, Kalamazoo, Michigan-based Stryker (NYSE:SYK) is following in the footsteps ...
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The 75 direct sales force dedicated to boost Stryker’s (NYSE: SYK)foot and ankle business unit had a stellar year in 2012, said CEO Kevin Lobo, to a packed room at ...
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The St Joseph Mercy clinic in Ann Arbor has been at the front line of the fight against one of the biggest ever U.S. outbreaks of fungal meningitis. Of the ...
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Now equipped with U.S. Food and Drug Administration clearance to market its first product, University of Michigan spinoff Tangent Medical Technologies has raised $8.6 million, presumably to take its closed-system ...
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Anti-infection and dermatology drug company NanoBio Corp. raked in $11 million in series C financing from its existing lineup of investors, bringing its total to $130 million, half of which ...
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November 6, 2012 11:56 am by Walsh, Tom | 0 Comments
The big hospital hookup plan by the Beaumont and Henry Ford health systems is necessary for the survival of everyone involved, but could also be a huge win for consumers ...
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November 6, 2012 6:46 am by ERB, ROBIN | 0 Comments
Michigan public health officials have boosted to 119 the cases of infection linked to tainted steroid injections for back pain, and a local doctor says some of those patients are ...
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