Pharmaceutical companies are hungry for adherence technology that can shift the World Health Organization’s average for taking medication correctly — 50 percent. It’s a trend in healthcare that’s referred to as Beyond the Pill or Pharma 3.0. Mobile health entrepreneur Omri Bob Shor, who developed an adherence technology platform, has added its first pharmaceutical customer […]
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s approval of Auxilium Pharmaceuticals’ drug Xiaflex (NASDAQ: AUXL) makes it the first medication to treat Peyronie’s disease. It is a painful condition affecting the penis and the drug could lead to more people seeking treatment. Peyronie’s disease is a connective tissue disorder that results in the growth of fibrous plaque […]
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Aetna (NYSE: AET) is testing out the patient-centered medical home model with cancer patients at an oncology practice in Philadelphia. Consultants in Medical Oncology and Hematology was the first oncology practice to get recognition from the National Committee for Quality Assurance as a patient-centered medical home. It currently has three offices in the Philadelphia area. […]
Boston Scientific (BSX) received FDA device approval for its Promus PREMIER Everolimus-Eluting Platinum Chromium Coronary Stent System, a next-gen polymer drug-eluting stent. The product launches immediately in the U.S. It will be used to treat patients with coronary artery disease. The company boasts the system offers “unparalleled visibility, low recoil, exceptional radial strength and fracture resistance, […]
Boston Scientific (BSX) has taken its new investor relations VP from Abiomed (ABMD), the company known for the world’s smallest heart pump and AbioCor. Susan Lisa has served as the senior director of investor relations and corporate development at Abiomed since 2012, according to her LinkedIn profile. She will begin her role as VP of […]
Medtronic (MDT) demonstrated proof of concept for its Valiant Mona LSA branch thoracic stent graft system. The medical device company announced the results of its “Innovation Pathway” feasibility pilot study Wednesday at the VEITHsymposium. In the seven patients in the study, the company touted “100 percent technical success and 100 percent patency in both main […]
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Several pharmaceutical companies such as Johnson & Johnson (NYSE: JNJ), Merck (NYSE: MRK) , and Bayer have been taking steps to infuse their pipelines with new drugs by developing incubators to identify life science innovations that fit in with their long-term goals. Now Celgene (NASDAQ: CELG) is collaborating with a biotech incubator backed by early-stage […]
Medtronic (MDT) CEO Omar Ishrak is flying the high of the medical device company’s Q2 earnings report, tweeting up a storm (for him). Ishrak, who normally dips in and out of Twitter with no more than a few tweets a week, has made at least seven posts about #MDTEarnings in two days. Here’s what the […]
Illumina (NASDAQ: ILMN) got marketing authorization from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for its diagnostic devices for next generation gene sequencing or NGS. Two of the devices focus on a gene associated with cystic fibrosis. More than 10 million people carry the cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator gene, according to an FDA statement. The […]
Boston Scientific (BSX) received FDA clearance and the CE Mark for its Direxion Torqueable Microcatheter. The catheter is the company’s newest addition to its peripheral embolization medical device technology portfolio. Radiologists use peripheral embolization to treat liver cancer and uterine fibroids, among other conditions. “It involves deliberately blocking a blood vessel to prevent blood flow to […]
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Biopharmaceutical company Alliqua (OTC: ALQAD) has supplemented its wound care business in a $6 million licensing deal with Celgene’s cellular therapuetics division. It has also secured $13 million in new investment, according to a company statement. It marks the latest step in its path to a listing on the national exchange. With products offering antimicrobial […]
Medtronic (MDT) announced financial results for Q2’13. The bottom line? $4.194 billion in revenue, with net earnings at $902 million. Innovative products, such as deep brain stimulation and the artificial pancreas, gave the company a leg up. Its Cardiac and Vascular Group made up $2.199 billion of that revenue, according to a company statement. Cardiac […]
Boston Scientific (BSX) announced it has received the CE Mark for its Vercise Deep Brain Stimulation System for the treatment of dystonia, “a neurological movement disorder characterized by involuntary muscle contractions.” Dystonia is the third most common movement disorder after Parkinson’s disease and essential tremor, and more than 500,000 patients in Europe have it, according […]
With the cost of drug development hitting the $5 billion mark and 94 percent of drugs failing at some point in clinical development, pharmaceutical companies have been turning to new tools to help clinical trial design: computers and robots. A couple of Wall Street Journal articles highlight this trend. One notes that in June, the […]
Proving one’s identity can be a tricky thing on Twitter. There are probably few things more galling than identity theft. And yet, Twitter has been the source of many incidents of this when it comes to celebrities — 2009 seems like an especially busy year for it. But when it comes to corporate twitter accounts, […]