Soaring health insurance costs drove the Epilepsy Foundation of Wisconsin to make a big change 10 years ago: It moved to a smaller office with cheaper rent.Now, executive director Art ...
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A group of former employees from electronic medical record vendor Epic have launched a website to address the myriad of questions that pop up in health IT. Its website,BreadcrumbsQA, crowdsources ...
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Wisconsin Investment Partners, a Madison-based angel investing group, has been named by the Halo Report as the most active angel investing group in the Great Lakes region.Wisconsin Investment Partners, known ...
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(Reuters) - Exact Sciences Corp said its molecular screening test for colorectal cancer met its goals in a large late-stage study, detecting the disease in more than 90 percent of ...
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Aver Informatics Inc., a De Pere health information technology start-up, has been selected to participate in a three-year entrepreneurship program affiliated with GE and StartUp Health, an incubator for young ...
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April 7, 2013 7:30 am by Newman, Judy | 0 Comments
Madison's new cluster of health care technology companies is coming into its own.With at least five local businesses started by former Epic Systems Corp. employees that have created about 400 ...
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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration-cleared Asthmapolis device is small and unflashy, but that’s part of what’s making it so valuable across the spectrum of patients, physicians, payers and public ...
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Physicians Plus lost $30.3 million last year after losing $10.5 million the year before, according to a financial statement the health insurance company filed this week.Group Health Cooperative of South ...
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March 21, 2013 3:48 pm by Gores, Paul | 0 Comments
A Madison company said Thursday it has been awarded $16 million to manufacture stem cell lines for research.Cellular Dynamics International Inc. will receive the grant from the California Institute for ...
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March 15, 2013 4:17 am by Johnson, Mark | 0 Comments
In a powerful demonstration of reprogramming's potential to treat human disease and injury, scientists at University of Wisconsin-Madison turned a rhesus monkey's skin cells into early brain cells, then implanted ...
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March 12, 2013 5:54 am by Daykin, Tom | 0 Comments
A start-up company formed by the founder of a Milwaukee-area drug ingredient maker is proposing to build a pharmaceutical research-and-development facility in Mequon, creating 50 jobs.Major Pharmaceuticals LLC wants to ...
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A Wisconsin startup focused on retraining weakened mouth muscles that cause people to have difficulty swallowing has launched its first device and raised a $1 million series A as it ...
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Biologic drugs are filling the pipelines of big pharmaceutical companies and niche biotech companies, and many expect the market for these drugs to soar.But discovery and development of biologics is ...
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It might look like something you’d see in a gym, but the machine above is actually designed for hospitals and nursing homes to help patients with impaired mobility regain strength ...
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November 22, 2012 11:00 am by Avila, Larry | 0 Comments
President Barack Obama has won re-election now the nation is awaiting how the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act will help overhaul the health care industry and expand coverage to ...
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