TOP STORIES
Turing Pharmaceuticals said it will offer reductions of up to 50 percent off its $750-a-pill price to hospitals, which handle about 80 percent of cases of toxoplasmosis encephalitis. – Reuters
Think of the Pfizer-Allergan deal as a bad food slogan: Bad for Ireland, too! – Wall Street Journal
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A 15-year-old boy has died of Ebola in Liberia, the first fatality from the virus for months in the country that was declared free of the disease in September. — Reuters
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Novo Nordisk said all of its global manufacturing facilities will run on electricity generated from renewable sources by 2020. — FiercePharmaManufacturing
University College London has announced that it is forming a biopharma company focused on gene therapies to treat eye diseases that cause blindness. — PharmaTimes
PAYERS/PROVIDERS
Many primary care practitioners will make less money in 2016 because of the expiration of a health law program that has been paying them a 10 percent bonus for caring for Medicare patients. — Kaiser Health News
This could make for more awkward/terrifying conversations over the dinner table this holiday: In 2004, the Surgeon General declared Thanksgiving to be National Family History Day – a day to talk about health problems that run in the family. This year, Delos “Toby” Cosgrove, MD, president and CEO of Cleveland Clinic is urging Americans to participate. — Becker’s Hospital Review
TECH
CareCube, a new product from Quietyme will allow hospitalized patients to call for a nurse, food service, hospitality or more just by changing the orientation of a box about the size and shape of a Rubik’s Cube. — MobiHealthNews
POLITICS
The FDA approved Fluad, the first seasonal influenza vaccine containing an adjuvant. Fluad, a trivalent vaccine produced from three influenza virus strains (two subtype A and one type B), is approved for the prevention of seasonal influenza in people 65 years of age and older. — FDA
A LITTLE EXTRA
It’s been confirmed: Apple has acquired Faceshift, a startup based in Zurich that has developed technology to create animated avatars and other figures that capture a person’s facial expressions in real time. — TechCrunch
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