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Because of the Memorial Day Holiday in the United States, MedCity News publishing will be light today.
MIT’s President, on a gap in innovation: ideas created from new-science technologies.
Improving the Healthcare Financial Experience to Help Care Flow
Zelis CEO Amanda Eisel shares her perspective on how the company is solving the problems of a fragmented health financial system to benefit all.
Major shareholders are saying that GSK’s Andrew Witty has time, for the moment, to keep changing GSK.
“With shares badly underperforming, there need to be some positive signs soon, or pressure could build up against the chief executive,” said a top 20 GSK shareholder. “The company says growth will revive by next year. They have to achieve that.”
LIFE SCIENCE
Quintiles has rolled out a new product for Asia-Pacific biopharmaceutical companies.
Using Data to Help Healthcare Practices Succeed
A new report from Relatient, A Data-Driven Guide to Patient Access Succes, highlights how focusing on data accuracy and relevance can enhance the performance of healthcare practices.
SciBase has cleared a U.S. patent hurdle for its its electrodes with micro-needles
Results of NeuroVive Pharmaceutical’s phase III CIRCUS study of CicloMulsion in patients with an ST-segment elevation acute myocardial infarction will now land in Q3.
PAYERS-PROVIDERS
A more in-depth look at flakka, the latest drug concoction coming your way.
Will more cities ban e-cigarettes?
A resident’s farewell to the overnight call shift in her residency: “What you do on the average day at work, if your colleagues feel supported or unsupported, if your work leaves patients feeling cared for, if you managed whatever major things they were seeing you for, that’s what matters the most.”
TECH
Have investors insulated themselves from the next tech bubble with the bodies of founders and startup employees?
We have a list of muse-use Apple Watch health apps. Are enough people using the Apple Watch for health to be able to make this list?
POLITICS
A great summary of reports that show Obamacare hasn’t solved medical debt.
A LITTLE EXTRA
What Silicon Valley’s cool kids are drinking. It. Sounds. Disgusting.
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