BioHealth News Archive
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
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 plans to spend around $3bn updating and expanding its Basal site, home to the Swiss company's headquarters, over the next 10 years. The…
Read MoreHHS 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)
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
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
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
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
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
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?
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
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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BARDA calls on Novartis, GSK, Emergent to pitch in with Ebola drug – FiercePharma Manufacturing
The U.S. government invested $440 million in three vaccine plants in the U.S. in 2012 with the proviso that if something like a pandemic…
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Funding & Research Opportunities and Announcements for October 21, 2014
Funding and Research Opportunities The following funding opportunity announcements from the NHLBI or other components of the National Institutes of Health, might be of…
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Sigma-Tau, Alfa Wassermann in talks to combine Italian operations: sources – Reuters
Italian drugmaker Sigma-Tau is in advanced talks to sell part of its Italian operations to domestic peer Alfa Wassermann that would create an over-the-counter…
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