BioHealth News Archive

Sucampo hires former Zyngenia chief Peter Kiener as CSO – Washington Business Journal

Sucampo hires former Zyngenia chief Peter Kiener as CSO – Washington Business Journal

Sucampo Pharmaceuticals Inc. on Thursday named Peter Kiener — whose past roles includes CEO of Zyngenia and head of biologics R&D for MedImmune —…

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New research offers hope in treating sleeping sickness – ScienceBlog.com

New research offers hope in treating sleeping sickness – ScienceBlog.com

In early drug dis­covery, you need a starting point, says North­eastern Uni­ver­sity asso­ciate pro­fessor of chem­istry and chem­ical biology Michael Pollastri. In a new…

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Growing a Blood Vessel in a Week – ScienceBlog.com

Growing a Blood Vessel in a Week – ScienceBlog.com

The technology for creating new tissues from stem cells has taken a giant leap forward. Two tablespoons of blood are all that is needed…

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Qiagen launches new features for bioinformatics solutions

Qiagen launches new features for bioinformatics solutions

Qiagen has announced the introduction of expanded functionality for its range of bioinformatics workflow solutions. New capabilities for the Ingenuity Variant Analysis and CLC…

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Predictive Medicine Depends on Analytics – Harvard Business Review

Predictive Medicine Depends on Analytics – Harvard Business Review

Regression models, Monte Carlo simulations, and other methods for predicting what’s around the corner have been in use for decades. It’s only recently, though,…

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Roche outlines $3bn expansion for its Basel site – PMLiVE

Roche outlines $3bn expansion for its Basel site – PMLiVE

Roche plans to spend around $3bn updating and expanding its Basal site, home to the Swiss company's headquarters, over the next 10 years. The…

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HHS Secretary announces $840 million initiative to improve patient care and lower costs

New initiative will support networks that help doctors access information and improve health outcomes Health and Human Services Secretary Sylvia M. Burwell today announced…

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Takeda and Sucampo Enter Into Global Licensing Agreement for AMITIZA(R) (lubiprostone)

Takeda and Sucampo Enter Into Global Licensing Agreement for AMITIZA(R) (lubiprostone)

Sucampo Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Sucampo) (Nasdaq:SCMP), a global biopharmaceutical company, and Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited (Takeda) today announced that on October 17, 2014, they entered…

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5 charts illustrate the “evolve or die” crisis facing the medical device industry

5 charts illustrate the “evolve or die” crisis facing the medical device industry

It’s not just the FDA that is making life difficult for medical device companies. Executives are having to follow sales opportunities as medical care…

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Surgeons, say goodbye to stitches or staples – ZipLine has an alternative

Surgeons, say goodbye to stitches or staples – ZipLine has an alternative

Stapling up skin post-surgery is pretty much the norm to quickly seal up wounds, but it runs a risk of infection and injury from the extra…

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How a Univ. of Md. policy will help non-tenure faculty land promotions – The Diamondback : News

How a Univ. of Md. policy will help non-tenure faculty land promotions – The Diamondback : News

Colleen Worthington has been working at this university for more than 24 years. It wasn’t until this year, however, that she received her first…

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Health department launches TB trial with emocha app – Technical.ly Baltimore

Health department launches TB trial with emocha app – Technical.ly Baltimore

Tuberculosis is both tough to treat and medically cumbersome to manage. Under directly observed therapy, a medical professional has to watch a patient take…

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Army awards Baltimore’s Profectus BioSciences $8.5M for Ebola vaccine work – Baltimore Business Journal

Army awards Baltimore’s Profectus BioSciences $8.5M for Ebola vaccine work – Baltimore Business Journal

Baltimore biopharmaceutical company Profectus BioSciences Inc. has received a three-year, $8.5 million grant from the U.S. Army for work on an Ebola vaccine. Profectus…

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The HHS IDEA Lab – What is it?

The HHS IDEA Lab – What is it?

Earlier this year, the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) launched the HHS IDEA Lab. With it, we unveiled a…

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Mass General, MIT form alliance to address three ‘major challenges’ in healthcare

Mass General, MIT form alliance to address three ‘major challenges’ in healthcare

Massachusetts General Hospital and MIT have formed a $3 million strategic alliance in an attempt to address three “major challenges” that persist in healthcare:…

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