With the majority of diagnostics out there, you need to know what you’re testing for: A strep throat screener won’t tell you that you have breast cancer. However, that’s how many asymptomatic, but dangerous, diseases fly under the radar – even when a seemingly healthy patient’s getting routine care. Miami startup Entopsis is building a diagnostic that could screen for multiple […]
Most of the consumers who bought a private health plan from Florida Blue through the Affordable Care Act’s insurance exchanges between October and April were previously uninsured — one of many factors potentially leading to higher premium rates in 2015, according to a senior executive. Jason Altmire, a former Pennsylvania congressman and now senior vice […]
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As pharmaceutical companies look for ways to add value to their drugs to solve problems like adherence, many see digital health as an important part of that strategy. Respiratory drug developer Opko Health (NYSE: OPK) has acquired an Israeli medical device startup, Inspiro Medical, with a digital dry powder inhaler under development, according to a […]
Oral cancers don’t get a lot of mainstream attention because they aren’t among the deadliest cancers by sheer numbers. They do, however, carry a surprisingly high mortality rate: between 40 and 50 percent of people diagnosed with an oral cancer die within five years. The problem, according to the Oral Cancer Foundation, is that they’re […]
In predominantly Hispanic Miami-Dade County, where one in three residents is uninsured, the National Hispanic Council on Aging identified ripe territory last fall to execute its federally funded mandate: seek out and sign up eligible Hispanics for coverage under the Affordable Care Act. But seven months after receiving a $646,000 federal award to act as […]
An unlikely candidate is at the center of a capital punishment debate: propofol, the anesthesia many physicians use to put patients under. Why? A shortage on the anesthetic drugs used for lethal injection caused state governments to look elsewhere for sedatives, the Scientific American reports. Propofol, used up to 50 million times a year in US […]
There are a number of criteria for selecting the best autism therapy centers. Parents choosing a facility or professionals seeking to improve their offerings should consider certain standards to ensure the right fit.
Elderly Miami residents on Medicare filled more prescriptions for drugs in 2010 than seniors elsewhere in the country, and they were more than twice as likely as residents in Rochester, Minn., to fill at least one prescription for medications that have...
Investors have backed a company making disposable devices for minimally invasive gastroenterology procedures with a new $3 million in capital, according to a U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission filing. SafeStitch Medical’s (OTCBB:SFES) private placement came from 17 investors, according to the filing. A company representative did not reply to a request for details, but it […]
A new company spun out of the University of Miami is taking the work of a Nobel Prize-winning endocrinologist and turning it into drug candidates for treatment of cancer and heart disease. Dr. Andrew V. Schally is a pioneer in the field of growth hormone-releasing hormone drugs (GHRH), winning the Nobel Prize in physiology or […]