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Topic: Washington

Washington state worries no-tax medical marijuana could hurt recreational market

Washington state worries no-tax medical marijuana could hurt recreational market

May 15, 2013 9:35 pm by | 1 Comments

OLYMPIA, Washington (Reuters) - Key officials helping to create Washington state's potentially lucrative recreational pot market say its success may hinge on preventing consumers from choosing to get high on ... Read more
Dendreon’s cancer vaccine sales drop as competition heats up

Dendreon’s cancer vaccine sales drop as competition heats up

May 9, 2013 10:55 am by | 0 Comments

(Reuters) - Sales of Dendreon Corp's prostate cancer vaccine Provenge declined in the first quarter despite efforts by the biotechnology drugs maker to shore up flagging volumes.The company's shares fell ... Read more
Preventing migraines with a new kind of antibody

Preventing migraines with a new kind of antibody

May 8, 2013 4:17 pm by | 0 Comments

A biopharmaceutical company will know this year whether an antibody produced using a unique technique can prevent chronic migraines. For many who suffer from chronic migraines, nothing can reliably prevent ... Read more
Gene therapy to restore muscle power to the heart nets UW spinoff $2.5 million

Gene therapy to restore muscle power to the heart nets UW spinoff $2.5 million

April 17, 2013 9:50 am by | 0 Comments

Damaged or weakened heart muscle that can’t pump enough blood to the rest of the body causes a host of problems that fall under the classification of heart failure. Researchers ... Read more
What do seniors need? StartUp Health and AARP collaboration hopes to give startups better insights

What do seniors need? StartUp Health and AARP collaboration hopes to give startups better insights

April 17, 2013 9:06 am by | 0 Comments

So many healthcare entrepreneurs have a story to share about a sick grandparent and how their recent experiences alerted them to certain shortcomings in the healthcare system. And although these ... Read more
Microsoft releases cheaper cloud service to take on Amazon, Rackspace

Microsoft releases cheaper cloud service to take on Amazon, Rackspace

April 16, 2013 12:04 pm by | 0 Comments

Microsoft opened up its Windows Azure Infrastructure cloud services to everyone today ’ a sign that the company is both very serious about its cloud division, and ready to take ... Read more
Fewer small companies offer health insurance

Fewer small companies offer health insurance

April 11, 2013 6:33 am by | 0 Comments

Between 1999 and 2011, health insurance coverage doubled in cost, and a growing share of the nation's workers no longer could obtain it from their employers. The lack of health ... Read more
EveryMove gets $3.5M for its apps that reward healthy employees

EveryMove gets $3.5M for its apps that reward healthy employees

April 4, 2013 8:04 pm by | 0 Comments

Seattle-based EveryMove has closed $3.5 million in funding for its health care mileage program. The company also just launched its Android app, which follows an iPhone app that lets employees ... Read more
Smokers have worse colon cancer prognosis: study

Smokers have worse colon cancer prognosis: study

April 3, 2013 4:44 pm by | 0 Comments

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Smokers are less likely to be alive and cancer-free three years after having surgery for colon cancer than people who have never smoked, according to ... Read more
Which healthcare startups will benefit from Obama’s brain mapping initiative?

Which healthcare startups will benefit from Obama’s brain mapping initiative?

April 3, 2013 10:01 am by | 1 Comments

The announcement of a $100 million government research initiative to map the human brain has been compared to the human genome project and the Apollo space mission. Not only will ... Read more
Questions raised in White House BRAIN initiative Twitter Q&A focus on patient benefits, sequestration

Questions raised in White House BRAIN initiative Twitter Q&A focus on patient benefits, sequestration

April 2, 2013 3:53 pm by | 0 Comments

President Barack Obama’s announcement detailing the $100 million project to map the human brain has caused ripples of excitement through the biotech, big data and epatient communities. But that excitement ... Read more
Seattle biotech ups series B again to ID & develop antibodies as infectious disease therapies

Seattle biotech ups series B again to ID & develop antibodies as infectious disease therapies

March 29, 2013 4:52 pm by | 0 Comments

Seattle-based biotech Theraclone Sciences Inc. has added another $8 million to its series B as it advances two antibodies targeting viral infections through clinical development and works on identifying more.Existing ... Read more
Mobile health tourney: Ultrasound imaging systems tips off against melanoma assessment app

Mobile health tourney: Ultrasound imaging systems tips off against melanoma assessment app

March 29, 2013 9:07 am by | 0 Comments

A medical app that's designed to make use of the high availability of smartphones in developing countries by converting them into ultrasound tools is pitted against a controversial app to ... Read more
Microsoft’s contribution to patent innovation: Patent Tracker shows all its intellectual property

Microsoft’s contribution to patent innovation: Patent Tracker shows all its intellectual property

March 28, 2013 9:40 pm by | 0 Comments

On precisely the same that day that Google unveiled its open source pledge, donating ten patents for free open source use, Microsoft unveiled its new Patent Tracker, a tool to ... Read more
Digital health entrepreneurs build fitness social network through iPhone app

Digital health entrepreneurs build fitness social network through iPhone app

March 28, 2013 8:29 am by | 1 Comments

With more than 38,000 health and fitness apps already on the market by Rock Health’s reckoning, it would seem like a tough sector in which to set oneself apart. But ... Read more