Medical device companies, hospitals, doctors and some patient advocates have put their marketing muscle and millions of dollars behind 3D mammograms, even though the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force hasn't found it to be more effective than traditional mammograms.
The business' March 16 debut on the Frankfurt stock exchange was delayed by more than an hour due to technical problems with Xetra, the market's trading platform.
Canada has a proud history of achievement in the areas of science and technology, and the field of biomanufacturing and life sciences is no exception.
It's not the first time the German medical imaging and diagnostic business has made its intentions to file an IPO known, but perhaps the company is betting on a more receptive audience in the current market.
Siemens Healthineers, the healthcare unit of Siemens AG, is taking another step into the population health scene through a planned acquisition of Medicalis Corporation.
Siemens did not indicate when the Healthineers IPO would take place, how much the company would try to raise or where shares would be listed.
Sunday evening, "60 Minutes" devoted half its show to artificial intelligence. About 12 minutes of that discussed healthcare, particularly cancer care, and Watson took center stage in a glowing segment.
Every week, we compile the most popular and thoughtful stories on MedCity News. Among this week's highlights were the official exit of Halle Tecco from Rock Health and Siemens Health "Healthineers" marketing campaign.
It's hard to get past the fact that the name Healthineers evokes Disney's Imagineers or, worse, Mouseketeers. Maybe if Siemens hired Justin Timberlake and Britney Spears as spokespeople?
Pharmaceutical companies are keen to have a stake in the personalized medicine market, viewed as a growing trend in the future of healthcare and a significant source of life science innovation. As part of that trend, Siemens‘ (NYSE: SI) diagnostics division has agreed to develop companion diagnostics for Pfizer (NYSE: PFE) drugs across therapeutic areas, […]
Google Glass may only be the beginning for Google wearable tech in the healthcare space. Google has acquired Flutter, a gesture recognition startup, for an undisclosed sum. Flutter has developed apps for Mac OS X and Windows that allows users to control computer programs through gestures (without clicking or typing). According to Mashable: Flutter launched […]
A specialty drug is a class of prescription medications used to treat complex, chronic or rare medical conditions. Although this classification was originally intended to define the treatment of rare, also termed “orphan” diseases, affecting fewer than 200,000 people in the US, more recently, specialty drugs have emerged as the cornerstone of treatment for chronic and complex diseases such as cancer, autoimmune conditions, diabetes, hepatitis C, and HIV/AIDS.
According to a new EvaluateMedtech report, despite the gloomy 2013 the medtech industry has had so far, by 2018, the industry can expect to rake in $455 billion. In vitro diagnostics are forecasted to stay on top as the highest earning sector, with global sales over $58 billion, with cardiology and diagnostic imaging following closely […]
Corporate venture capital may be what fills in the large gaps VC has left behind, with CVC deals about 60 percent larger than VC deals on the whole. Healthcare corporate venture capital deals are up nearly 40 percent compared to Q1 and funding is up 34 percent, according to a report from CB Insights. There were […]
An HIV/AIDS treatment developed by GlaxoSmithKline (NYSE:GSK) is now being studied with Siemens (NYSE:SI) to develop companion diagnostics that doctors can use to select patients appropriate for the treatment. The partnership with ViiV Healthcare, GSK’s AIDS drug joint venture with Pfizer (NYSE:PFE), will study the drug Selzentry in a phase 3 study comparing it to […]
A company that has developed imaging technology with the goal of making it easier for doctors to detect breast cancer is using the follow-on funding it received from Ben Franklin Technology Partners earlier this week towards the preliminary phase of clinical trials. Real Time Tomography, a Villanova, Pennsylvania-based company, received $150,000 from “the Bens” after […]
Updated 7:53 a.m., July 14, 2010. Hiroyuki Fujita is connecting the dots. The founder, president and chief executive of Quality Electrodynamics LLC, better known as QED, in Mayfield Village, Ohio, adopted the metaphor for business success from Steve Jobs, co-founder and CEO of Apple Inc. The metaphor stuck with Fujita because it depicts his entrepreneurial […]
