Atlanta Business Chronicle by Carla Caldwell, Morning Call Editor Date: Tuesday, December 25, 2012, 6:11am EST - Last Modified: Tuesday, December 25, 2012, 8:48am EST WellPoint, Inc., (NYSE: WLP) has completed its acquisition of Amerigroup Corporation (NYSE: AGP), WellPoint announced Monday. “By leveraging our combined clinical capabilities, resources and expertise, WellPoint’s competitive position in the Dual [...]
Luke Timmerman12/20/12 Some of the biggest investment checks in biotech are going to startups focused on treating extremely tiny groups of patients. You can see the story playing out at a little company in Novato, CA, called Ultragenyx Pharmaceutical. The company, founded by former BioMarin Pharmaceuticals executive Emil Kakkis in April 2010, is announcing today [...]
Dec 11 2012, 8:06 AM ET In South Dakota, long-distance doctoring is bringing health care to rural communities. Every day -- and through the night -- in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, doctors report to work in a hospital where there are no patients. And in over 70 rural communities in four states, patients stricken by [...]
NORTHBROOK, Ill., Dec. 4, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Astellas Pharma US, Inc. ("Astellas"), a U.S. subsidiary of Tokyo-based Astellas Pharma Inc. (Tokyo: 4503), announced today that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has accepted for review the company's New Drug Application (NDA) for tacrolimus extended release capsules, for the prophylaxis of organ rejection in adult [...]
Latest Move Marks Major Expansion for Physicians Interactive Into Patient Healthcare Communication and Medication Adherence
Seek to drive patient engagement with mobile meds management HORSHAM, PA | November 26, 2012 NextGen Healthcare Information Systems is partnering with Microsoft to offer a mobile app for the Windows 8 platform that enables consumers to create, store, track and share personal medication records. NextGen and Microsoft officials say the MedicineCabinet app, available for [...]
Latest round of funding will go toward machine learning technology BOSTON | November 27, 2012 Healthrageous, which develops technology for health self-management, has received $700,000 in Series B financing from the Partners HealthCare Innovation Fund --close on the heels of a $6.5 million round of financing from other investors in October. "They originally created us, [...]
By Caroline Copley, Reuters Nov. 08, 2012 5:31AM PSTNov. 08, 2012 5:31AM PST ZURICH (Reuters) - Novartis could produce 14 or more new big-selling 'blockbuster' drugs within five years as it bets on cancer, heart and respiratory treatments to fill the gaps left by expiries on current patents, the Swiss firm said on Thursday. Like [...]
November 06, 2012 | Mike Miliard, Managing Editor TORONTO – Even as reimbursement cuts and radiation dosing concerns have helped put the brakes on its growth, an increase in procedure volume will see the U.S. diagnostic imaging system market increase to roughly $4.5 billion through 2017, according to Millennium Research Group (MRG). In its report, [...]
By Tova Cohen, Reuters Oct. 24, 2012 5:05AM PDTOct. 24, 2012 5:05AM PDT TEL AVIV (Reuters) - Israel-based Neuronix, which has developed a non-invasive medical device to help to treat Alzheimer's disease, expects the system to be approved by the U.S. Food & Drug Administration in late 2014. The device, which combines electromagnetic stimulation with [...]