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| Jul 21, 2015 | Morning Read: Alzheimer’s detected with saliva, University of Pittsburgh gets $20M for blood transfusion advancement efforts | Roche has expanded its HIV Global Access Program to include infants.
“Increased access to early infant diagnosis can provide an impactful contribution for mother and child and contribute to achieving UNAIDS’ goals for controlling and eradic... |
| Jun 24, 2015 | Will Google’s research-grade fitness band be its biomed breakthrough? | The now defunct Google Health. reader comments 39 with 36 posters participating
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It's hard not to view Google as an 800-pound gorilla, beating competitors at every turn... |
| Oct 10, 2014 | More Abuse Of The Orphan Drug System: Taking Treatment From Free To $80,000 A Year | Last year, we wrote about a disturbing abuse of the orphan drug system in the US, which is designed to encourage the development of treatments for rare diseases, but which in practice can allow companies to increase prices hugely. Here’s an... |
| Mar 12, 2013 | Will biotech grow in China and India without much VC help? | We've seen plenty of acrimony from the biotech communities in the U.S. and Europe over the insufficient venture capital dollars for young drug developers. But while VC players had a pivotal role in the growth of the biotech sectors in ... |
| Mar 15, 2011 | Do rising drug costs mean we need Obamacare? (Morning Read) | But the price increases in drug came totally from the brand-name products. Those drugs increased price by an annual average of 8.3 percent. Prices for the generics dropped by 2.6 percent annually, according to a report by the U.S. Governmen... |
| Mar 10, 2011 | A permanent federal R & D tax credit? (Morning Read) | Yet even with the stay, Florida will isn’t moving forward with healthcare reform.
Nursing strikes in Boston? Nurses at five hospitals – including Tufts Medical Center in Boston – are said to be planning a five-day nurses strike close to the... |
| Feb 17, 2011 | The Best Get On Sanofi-Genz: The Germ | I'd thought that, after six months of negotiations, everything that could be said about the Sanofi-Genzyme merger had been said. But then Derek Lowe, the brilliant bearded blogger-cum-pharmaceutical-chemist, scores the biggest exclusiv... |
| Feb 2, 2011 | ‘The field of obesity drugs is effectively dead’ (Morning Read) | The newest coursework in medical school… art, writing, literature and — hopefully — empathy.
Healthcare reform repeal update. The Senate will get a repeal vote afterall. Meanwhile, states that were party to the Florida ruling that nullified... |
| Feb 2, 2011 | Senate to vote on healthcare reform repeal | MASSDEVICE ON CALL — Senate to vote on healthcare reform repeal. Politicians in Washington love to grandstand as indicated by Senate Republicans’ efforts to bring a repeal of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act to a vote, despite... |
| Jan 24, 2011 | FDA weighs in on electroshock therapy devices | MASSDEVICE ON CALL — FDA weighs in on electroshock therapy devices. The Food & Drug Administration is studying whether to downgrade the risk classification of electroshock devices, reinforcing what many psychiatrists consider a deepenin... |
| Jan 24, 2011 | Government joins the drug development business (Morning Read) | That means that in some cases, the center will use one of the institutes’ four new robotic screeners to find chemicals that affect enzymes and might lead to the development of a drug or a cure. In other cases, the center may need to not onl... |
| Jul 14, 2010 | Is ‘conscious capitalism’ the future of venture capital? (Morning Read) | Promoted
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| Jul 7, 2010 | Some nurses struggle to find jobs despite shortage (Morning Read) | Dirty Medicine: Washington Monthly takes a riveting look at group purchasing organizations–collectives formed by hospitals to save money on supplies–and comes to troubling conclusions. “It’s a system that has stifled innovation and kept lif... |
| May 11, 2010 | Morning Read: What makes a healthcare expert? | Wellpoint goes on the offensive: 2010 is shaping up to be an absolutely brutal year in the court of public opinion for Indianapolis-based insurer Wellpoint. See stories about its revoking the policies of breast cancer patients and its “math... |
| Oct 6, 2009 | Nursing home funding cuts — MedCity Morning Read, Tuesday Oct. 6 | But nursing homes may be overstating their problems, writes Ken Terry.
According to this group, reports from the Government Accountability Office (GAO) and the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC) show that Medicare overpays nursin... |
| Aug 11, 2009 | Health reform ‘reality show’ comes to Washington — MedCity Morning Read, Aug. 11, 2009 | Democrats hope direct online engagement with dissenters will will blunt rising public anxiety that they say is being fed by false claims about their health care reform legislation, the Times said. The White House has launched a new health ... |
| Jul 6, 2009 | Science moves from the stacks to the Web; print too pricey | reader comments 28 with 24 posters participating
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Last week, the head of the US branch of Oxford University Press noted an event that was striking, if unsurprising. When gra... |
| Jun 16, 2009 | @Twitter from StateDept: delay upgrade to aid Iran protests | reader comments 19 with 16 posters participating
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Iran has been in turmoil since last week's disputed elections, in which both incumbent President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad a... |
| Mar 17, 2009 | Pfizer’s VC Leader, Barbara Dalton, on Corporate Venture and Northwest Deal Hunting | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Pfizer is the world’s largest drugmaker, and it tends to make headlines when it pulls off megadeals like its pending $68 billion takeover of Wyeth. It’s one of the deals the c... |
| Dec 18, 2007 | The Language Indicator: If You Want To Stay On Top Of Technology, You Need To Speak Chinese | For all of the lamentation of American students' perennially-disappointing math and science scores, it's also true that we've been pretty good at avoiding the resulting negative consequences that one might expect. The U.S. ha... |
| Nov 9, 2007 | More on drug discovery and comparable industries | Anyone interested in exploring better analogies for the drug industry — better, that is, than Andy Grove’s forced comparison to semiconductors — should just check out Derek Lowe’s blog In the Pipeline. In followup items, he’s already drawn ... |
| Nov 8, 2007 | What Andy Grove still gets wrong about the life sciences — and how he could help fix them | (UPDATED: See below.)
Like DNA co-discoverer James Watson, whose career ended last month after he linked genetic intelligence differences to race, former Intel chairman Andrew Grove seems to be falling into the trap of assuming that experti... |
| Apr 12, 2007 | Biotech Roundup: Heart-disease biomarkers, drugs that go too far, “non-profit” drugs | (Note: This item has been copied over to the Life Sciences page from its original location on the VentureBeat main page. To view it in its original context, with comments, click here.)
Cautionary tales: An occasional look at events with pot... |
| Apr 12, 2007 | Biotech Roundup: Heart-disease biomarkers, drugs that go too far, “non-profit” drugs | Cautionary tales: An occasional look at events with potential long-term impact for biotechnology
Personalized medicine takes a hit — Scientists have spent more than a decade scouring the human genome to identify genetic alterations that mig... |
| Morning Read: What makes a healthcare expert? | Highlights of the important and the interesting from the world of healthcare:
What makes a healthcare expert? The Health Care Renewal blog isn’t happy about the media portraying leaders of healthcare organizations who have no clinical exper... |
| Do rising drug costs mean we need Obamacare? (Morning Read) | Current medical news and unique business news for anyone who cares about the healthcare industry.
Drug prices climb but generics costs fall. Look for Democrats to use a report on drug price costs as a weapon in the healthcare reform debate.... |
| ‘The field of obesity drugs is effectively dead’ (Morning Read) | Current medical news and unique business news for anyone who cares about the healthcare industry.
FDA rejects Contrave: What it means. “If there was one pill in the latest crop of experimental weight-loss medicines that stood a chance of ge... |
| Morning Read: Alzheimer’s detected with saliva, University of Pittsburgh gets $20M for blood transfusion advancement efforts | TOP STORIES
Alzheimer’s could potentially be detected with saliva samples.
Preliminary findings from a small study presented Sunday at the annual Alzheimer’s Association International Conference going on now in Washington, D.C., suggests sa... |
| Health reform ‘reality show’ comes to Washington — MedCity Morning Read, Aug. 11, 2009 | WASHINGTON, D.C. — President Obama and his allies moved forcefully on Monday to rebut what they say is “misinformation” being spread by opponents of their health care reforms and to spotlight disruptions of town hall meetings by protesters,... |
| Nursing home funding cuts — MedCity Morning Read, Tuesday Oct. 6 | Image via Wikipedia
Just in time for the baby-boomer population to move into nursing homes, recent funding cuts may leave some with closed doors, according to the Associated Press.
Deep federal and state government cuts prompted by the rece... |
| A permanent federal R & D tax credit? (Morning Read) | Current medical news and unique business news for anyone who cares about the healthcare industry:
R & D tax credits forever? The drive to make the current federal R & D tax credit permanent is fueled by this statistic: the United St... |
| Some nurses struggle to find jobs despite shortage (Morning Read) | Highlights of the important and the interesting from the world of healthcare:
Some nurses struggle to find jobs despite nursing shortage: While the problem may not be as severe nationally, new nursing graduates in California are having diff... |
| Is ‘conscious capitalism’ the future of venture capital? (Morning Read) | Highlights of the important and the interesting from the world of healthcare:
Is “conscious capitalism” the future of venture capital? It is if you ask Silicon Valley lawyer John Montgomery, who’s launching a column on the topic for peHUB. ... |
| Government joins the drug development business (Morning Read) | Current medical news and unique business news for anyone who cares about the healthcare industry.
Drug development, sponsored by the feds. The Obama administration will increase the federal government’s R & D budget as the big drugmaker... |