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Topic: New Jersey

New Jersey signs up for federal health insurance exchange

New Jersey signs up for federal health insurance exchange

February 16, 2013 9:12 am by | 0 Comments

After waiting until the last minute to announce it, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie said it would let the federal government set up a health insurance exchange in his state.It ... Read more
New report asks what drives hospital readmission rates and what can be done?

New report asks what drives hospital readmission rates and what can be done?

February 13, 2013 8:17 am by | 0 Comments

So far, more than 2,000 hospitals have been slapped with up to a 1 percent cut in Medicare reimbursement after they were deemed to have higher than average readmission rates ... Read more
Interactive map compares hospital readmission rates nationwide

Interactive map compares hospital readmission rates nationwide

February 13, 2013 1:17 am by | 0 Comments

Since the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid toughened their stance on unnecessary hospital readmissions, they began by penalizing institutions with reduced Medicare reimbursements if they fail to reduce their readmission ... Read more
Biotech startup developing therapeutic to combat sepsis raises $3 million

Biotech startup developing therapeutic to combat sepsis raises $3 million

February 8, 2013 9:42 am by | 0 Comments

A biotechnology startup developing an anti-inflammatory therapeutic that uses a protein component of plasma to treat sepsis and other conditions has raised $3 million, according to an amended Form D ... Read more
Angel investor tax break comes to New Jersey

Angel investor tax break comes to New Jersey

February 1, 2013 11:35 pm by | 0 Comments

New Jersey has jumped on the angel investor tax break bandwagon this week after the state’s governor reversed his position on the tax break in an effort to spur job ... Read more
NJ foundation pumps another $5M into early stage biotech investment arm

NJ foundation pumps another $5M into early stage biotech investment arm

February 1, 2013 7:28 am by | 0 Comments

A New Jersey foundation that funds research coming out of the state’s medical school has agreed to replenish its investment arm with $5 million to pump into biotechnology startups at ... Read more
Biotechnology startup developing remedy to reduce Parkinson’s disease drug side effects

Biotechnology startup developing remedy to reduce Parkinson’s disease drug side effects

January 25, 2013 6:08 pm by | 1 Comments

A drug developer believes it has a treatment that could limit the side effects of L-Dopa. A New Jersey foundation’s venture investment arm has allocated $500,000 for the new company ... Read more
Puncture-resistant surgical gloves, hook worms for healing get grant money from New Jersey

Puncture-resistant surgical gloves, hook worms for healing get grant money from New Jersey

January 23, 2013 3:26 pm by | 1 Comments

A professor of surgery and a dean for research with New Jersey medical schools are getting grant money from the state to build a better pair of surgical gloves and ... Read more
GOP governors make childish political decisions and deny healthcare to citizens

GOP governors make childish political decisions and deny healthcare to citizens

January 20, 2013 4:51 am by | 0 Comments

When the scramble to obtain required health insurance kicks off in earnest this fall, the question for thousands of Pennsylvanians and New Jerseyans will be whether their elected leaders, by ... Read more
Biopharma startup raises $51M for therapeutic to treat bleeding complications from angioplasty

Biopharma startup raises $51M for therapeutic to treat bleeding complications from angioplasty

December 19, 2012 6:41 pm by | 0 Comments

In one of the largest financing rounds this year, biopharmaceutical startup Regado Biosciences has raised $51 million to advance its anti-clotting therapeutic through Phase 3 clinical trials.A subsidiary of Russian ... Read more
Cardiac implant is early warning system for heart attacks

Cardiac implant is early warning system for heart attacks

December 18, 2012 7:09 pm by | 0 Comments

Time is muscle, or so the saying goes in the cardiology community. One medical device company is putting that mantra into practice with an implant designed to provide an early ... Read more
Medical claim analytics startup sees role to smooth out chaos in upcoming coding explosion (video)

Medical claim analytics startup sees role to smooth out chaos in upcoming coding explosion (video)

December 13, 2012 3:57 pm by | 0 Comments

After numerous delays, the healthcare industry is getting ready to implement the 10th revision of the International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems in 2014,aka ICD-10. Some healthcare ... Read more
Expanding tools for clinical research, rare disease network gets Sanofi award

Expanding tools for clinical research, rare disease network gets Sanofi award

December 13, 2012 6:47 am by | 0 Comments

A patient-centric tool to provide a virtual research network for rare diseases to improve clinical trial recruitment has taken the top prize in an innovation challenge from Sanofi US.Registries for ... Read more
Novo Nordisk boosts app armory with hemophilia gaming, blood disorder tracking apps

Novo Nordisk boosts app armory with hemophilia gaming, blood disorder tracking apps

November 27, 2012 11:42 am by | 0 Comments

Novo Nordisk has launched its ninth app to help hemophiliacs and caregivers track bleeding events and medications. The Danish drug developer has been deepening its blood disorder diagnostic tools aimed ... Read more
Pharma funded social network for oncolology nurses, care teams offers comfort, shared insights

Pharma funded social network for oncolology nurses, care teams offers comfort, shared insights

November 26, 2012 6:40 pm by | 1 Comments

When my mother was a radiation technician in 1950s London and Philadelphia, there wasn’t much in the way of a social support network for healthcare professionals treating patients with cancer ... Read more