If you want to understand the swallowing challenges faced by people with Parkinson’s disease, ask is a speech therapist at a nursing home. That’s one way a company with a device to convert pills and capsules into custom-flavored liquids approached the issue of how to make medicine more palatable.Patients’ & Consumers’ Pharma’s approach harkens back [...]

A healthcare IT company is seeking to arm people with rare or complex diseases with efficient access to a second opinion to reduce medical errors.Rajiv Mahale and JonMcEuen are first year MBA students in the Goergen Entrepreneurial Management program at Wharton Business School at University of Pennsylvania and the co-founders of AccessMD. The company was [...]

A medical device company secured an ISO Certification and CE Mark approval for a stapling device to improve angioplasty results for peripheral artery disease. The Tack-It Endovascular Stapler device consists of a catheter with four self-expanding tacks. The 6 mm-length implant has six pairs of anchors to optimize angioplasty by fitting together tissue to smooth [...]

Watson Pharmaceuticals (NYSE:WPI) received approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for its generic version of a drug to treat C. difficile.Watson submitted an abbreviated new drug application for vancomycin hydrochloride capsules, USP, in 125 mg and 250 mg doses, used to treat diarrhea caused by C. difficile and for the treatment of enterocolitis, [...]

Radiology outsourcing company Foundation Radiology Group has raised $1 million, according to a regulatory document.Pittsburgh-based Foundation’s latest funding comes in the form of debt and follows another $1 million fundraise that was revealed in a regulatory document earlier this year.Foundation typically doesn’t raise capital in discrete A, B and C funding rounds. Instead, the company [...]

A company has acquired a DNA vaccine for Alzheimer’s disease that is designed to trigger an immune response to the disease.The vaccine, in preclinical development, differs from other Alzheimer’s vaccines under study in that it only contains a piece of the coding for the amyloid beta protein, a company statement said. Amyloid beta in the [...]

A Web-based organizer is helping users keep their healthcare records and data in one place to make it easier to access the information when they need it.Joanne Lang, who was a software executive at SAP and worked with cloud computing, said AboutOne was sparked by a medical emergency involving her son when she realized she [...]

A synthetic vaccine developer is using a $750,000 small business innovation research grant from the U.S. Department of Defense to test the safety of its electrical drug delivery method with its DNA vaccines to guard against bioterrorism, according to a company statement.The drug delivery system from Inovio Pharmaceuticals (NYSE AMEX:INO) uses an electrical charge to [...]

ReGear Life Sciences has added additional funding to support its deep tissue heating pain management device, according to a recent regulatory filing.The therapeutic heating company has raised $850,000 in equity since July, according to the new document. That’s up from the $500,000 in equity the company revealed in a filing last August.Pittsburgh-based ReGear started out [...]

There was a time when tracking physicians through procedures, prescriptions and referrals was of primary interest to pharmaceutical companies. For medical device companies, the challenge has been how to get information about which procedures physicians are doing to better target their potential customer base.Now both pharma and medical device companies, and more recently, hospitals want [...]