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Children’s hospital joins Pfizer-led collaboration to speed up drug development

Children’s hospital joins Pfizer-led collaboration to speed up drug development

April 3, 2013 3:35 pm by | 0 Comments

Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia has joined a group of teaching hospitals as part of an effort by Pfizer (NYSE: PFE) to shrink the time it takes to get a drug ... Read more
Mobile health tourney advances to Elite Eight: Who will be in the Final Four?

Mobile health tourney advances to Elite Eight: Who will be in the Final Four?

April 2, 2013 8:59 am by | 1 Comments

Alongside the NCAA basketball tournament, we’ve developed a competition among mobile health devices and apps. The Sweet Sixteen has been reduced to the Elite Eight that includes an operating room ... Read more
Children’s hospital pediatricians talk about health IT innovations for vaccines, asthma

Children’s hospital pediatricians talk about health IT innovations for vaccines, asthma

April 1, 2013 2:02 pm by | 0 Comments

A pair of pediatricians from Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia recently talked about how they developed an innovative alert system for the provider’s electronic health records to improve population health and ... Read more
A mobile health app Sweet 16: Is FDA-approval the ultimate top seed?

A mobile health app Sweet 16: Is FDA-approval the ultimate top seed?

March 28, 2013 2:07 pm by | 3 Comments

The Congressional hearings debating the regulatory framework for mobile health devices and apps made me think about how we view mobile health apps and the criteria we use to determine ... Read more
Biotech startup raises $1M for lung cancer treatment using component of tumeric

Biotech startup raises $1M for lung cancer treatment using component of tumeric

March 26, 2013 4:22 pm by | 0 Comments

A biotechnology startup with a lead product being developed to treat lung cancer has raised $1 million to advance its therapy through clinical trials. The treatment involves using curcumin, the ... Read more
Biotechnology company adds new investor in its fight against Hepatitis B virus

Biotechnology company adds new investor in its fight against Hepatitis B virus

March 25, 2013 6:17 pm by | 0 Comments

A biotechnology company seeking to eradicate the Hepatitis B virus has added a new investor to its backers to close a $25 million Series A round.Novira Therapeutics in Radnor, Pennsylvania ... Read more
What’s driving the rise in securities fraud class action cases against life science companies?

What’s driving the rise in securities fraud class action cases against life science companies?

March 25, 2013 4:42 pm by | 0 Comments

Last year, securities fraud lawsuits filed against pharmaceutical, biotechnology and other life science companies reached their highest level in a couple of years, but accounted for a greater portion of ... Read more
6 healthcare IT investment opportunities and trends for angels and startups

6 healthcare IT investment opportunities and trends for angels and startups

March 25, 2013 11:11 am by | 0 Comments

Many of the changes in the healthcare industry outlined by the Affordable Care Act and HITECH Act call for shifting to healthcare IT for helping physician practices run more efficiently ... Read more
Nursing shortage’s impact in pediatrics: Study says NICUs need nurses

Nursing shortage’s impact in pediatrics: Study says NICUs need nurses

March 25, 2013 4:43 am by | 0 Comments

A surprising number of the nation's neonatal intensive care units (NICUs) have too few nurses, a new study by researchers from the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Medicine ... Read more
Generic drugmakers’ Supreme Court moment: Can pharma pay them to stay away?

Generic drugmakers’ Supreme Court moment: Can pharma pay them to stay away?

March 24, 2013 2:34 pm by | 0 Comments

The U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments Monday in a case that affects the health and wallets of millions of Americans, most of whom know nothing about the contentious issue. ... Read more
Pediatric drug developer with treatment for infantile jaundice could reduce readmissions

Pediatric drug developer with treatment for infantile jaundice could reduce readmissions

March 21, 2013 6:52 pm by | 0 Comments

A pediatric drug developer has raised $3.55 million — the first tranche of a $21.5 million series C Round to advance its drug to treat infantile jaundice or hyperbilirubinemia through ... Read more
Despite some gains, Philadelphia still unhealthiest county in state

Despite some gains, Philadelphia still unhealthiest county in state

March 21, 2013 5:20 am by | 0 Comments

Philadelphia remains the unhealthiest county in Pennsylvania, according to the latest annual rankings, though it has improved substantially in its rates of smoking, violent crime, and premature death.Chester County ranked ... Read more
Cardinal Health loses to AmerisourceBergen as Walgreens wholesale supplier

Cardinal Health loses to AmerisourceBergen as Walgreens wholesale supplier

March 20, 2013 4:50 am by | 0 Comments

AmerisourceBergen Corp. is in and Cardinal Health Inc. is out as the wholesale supplier of medicines for Walgreens pharmacies. The Chesterbrook-based company has signed a 10-year agreement with the nation's ... Read more
Hospitals gain new weapons against deadly bacteria

Hospitals gain new weapons against deadly bacteria

March 20, 2013 4:47 am by | 0 Comments

As the invisible bugs in hospitals get scarier and more prevalent, hospitals are finding new ways to clean.Doylestown Hospital on Tuesday unveiled its newest high-tech weapon, a machine that zaps ... Read more
Healthcare, life science proof-of-concept program gets some brotherly love with city’s $500k investment

Healthcare, life science proof-of-concept program gets some brotherly love with city’s $500k investment

March 19, 2013 7:57 pm by | 0 Comments

A program that invests in health care and life science research projects that can demonstrate proof of concept, typically coming out of universities and medical institutions, is getting a $500,000 ... Read more