Brandon Glenn is the Ohio bureau chief for MedCity News.
Cardinal Health (NYSE:CAH) will manufacture and distribute a radioactive imaging agent from Eli Lilly (NYSE:LLY) that could help doctors diagnose Alzheimer’s disease. The imaging agent, called Amyvid, is scheduled for commercial launch on June 1, according to a statement from Dublin, Ohio-based Cardinal. Amyvid was approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration in April. […]
Chicago-area health system Cadence Health has reached its third affiliation agreement with Cleveland Clinic, with the latest deal covering cardiology services. For hospital systems like Cadence, affiliation agreements with Cleveland Clinic provide the opportunity to improve care quality through access to and implementation of the Clinic’s best practices and protocols. Cadence patients will also get […]
Zelis CEO Amanda Eisel shares her perspective on how the company is solving the problems of a fragmented health financial system to benefit all.
The 2-and-20 compensation structure for venture capital funds is a one-size-fits-all approach that misaligns incentives and can help VCs to get paid handsomely while their funds perform abysmally. That was one conclusion from a much–discussed report on the venture capital industry from the Kauffman Foundation last month. “It’s interesting that VCs have positioned themselves as […]
Personalized medicine test maker AssureRx Health has raised a $12.5 million series C round of investment that it’ll use to help commercialize its tests that help doctors pick the right drugs based on a patient’s genes. The latest funding for the Cincinnati-area company is further evidence of how lucrative field investors believe personalized medicine can […]
Corporate America has jumped on the wellness trend with both feet, but is it a leap worth taking? Germany has more experience with wellness incentives, so researchers affiliated with the Commonwealth Fund looked there for clues about what effect wellness incentive plans could have in the U.S. Considering that federal health reform allows for the […]
An MRI-based system that delivers radiation therapy to cancer patients has received 510(k) clearance from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. It’s a “major milestone” for Cleveland-area ViewRay, which in March closed on the last tranche of a $45 million series C investment round, according to a statement from the company. The designation from the […]
The progress in artificial intelligence (AI) is reshaping patient care, across various dimensions, from facilitating faster discharge to curating treatment plans and suggesting lifestyle changes.
Regenerative medicine wound healing company SironRX Therapeutics has hired a first-time CEO as its first-ever, full-time CEO. Evan Facher most recently worked as general manager of Pittsburgh interventional operations with MedRad, a medical device company that’s an arm of Bayer HealthCare. In eight years with MedRad, Facher held a variety of roles that included business […]
Two Cleveland Clinic physicians climbed Africa’s highest peak with their sons — one a 24-year-old who is blind. Dr. Glen Stevens, a neurologist, and Dr. Alan Taege, the Clinic’s director of HIV care, ascended to the peak of 19,000-foot Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania along with their two sons. Stevens’ son, Ryan, has been blind since […]
New decision support technology from Cardinal Health (NYSE:CAH) is designed to help physicians follow cancer and rheumatoid arthritis “clinical pathways” — evidence-based treatment regimens. The new technology, called PathWare Solutions, would be purchased by a health insurance plan or payer, which would then make it available to physicians in its network, according to a spokeswoman […]
Spend a little while following the #bigdata hashtag on Twitter and you won’t hear a lot about healthcare. That’s a little surprising given big data‘s supposed promise to healthcare: A McKinsey report somewhat famously claimed that if the U.S. healthcare industry were to use big data better to drive efficiency and quality, the sector could […]
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A key doctor who was recruited to Ohio State University nearly a decade ago to build the university’s neurosurgery department is leaving for Brigham and Women’s Hospital. Dr. E. Antonio Chiocca will start on Aug. 1 as the chair of Brigham and Women’s neurosurgery department. He’d held that position at Ohio State since 2004, a […]
Don’t tell Ted Driscoll now’s a bad time to be a healthcare investor. Despite frequent industry complaints of an overly burdesome regulatory environment and a soft IPO market, the Claremont Creek Ventures partner says technology and demographics have combined to create favorable circumstances for healthcare investors. A digital imaging expert with a PhD from Stanford […]
A new approach to review the genetic makeup of cancer patients and their tumors could enable customized cancer treatments. It’s been too hard for scientists to analyze peoples’ genetic data. Figuring out the details behind a genome can take weeks and cost up to $100,000. But GenomOncology, based in Cleveland, Ohio, says its mix of […]
A Cleveland Clinic patient who posted a picture of herself while in the hospital for an operation to remove 60 percent of one of her lungs has become a popular Internet meme. The 28-year-old woman, whose name is Rachel and uses the Reddit name WhosThatGirl_ItsRach, was staying at the Clinic for surgery to treat congenital […]
A drug discovery startup that lays claim to “the largest chemical libraries in the world” has raised $600,000 in equity, according to a regulatory filing. Pittsburgh-based Carmolex says its library contains compounds “never seen before,” giving it an advantage over competitors whose libraries are biased toward historical targets. Similar to some clinical research organizations, Carmolex […]