BioHealth News Archive
CDC names top 5 health threats in 2014 – MedCity
The disease detectives at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention named the top five global health threats they expect to tackle in 2014:…
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Digital health’s top deal-doers: These funds invested in the most companies last year
By Rock Health’s count, 302 investment firms and “notable angels” put money into a digital health startup in 2013. Twenty-seven of them did it…
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5 lessons we learned about data science in 2013
Most people know what marketing executives do every day. They try to catch people’s attention through email, ads, tweets, and press releases. As for…
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Montgomery County Department of Economic Development Invests in Bethesda-Based Brain Sentry Impact Sensors
The Montgomery County, MD Department of Economic Development (DED) has invested $75,000 in Brain Sentry, makers of Brain Sentry Impact Sensors™, innovative helmet-mounted devices…
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BioPen to rewrite orthopaedic implants surgery – University of Wollongong
A handheld ‘bio pen’ developed in the labs of the University of Wollongong (UOW) will allow surgeons to design customised implants on-site and at…
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Here are the most viewed healthcare stories of 2013 on MedCity News
10. Our broken healthcare system defeats even the most empowered patients Jess Jacobs and Donna Cryer are experts on the healthcare system — professionally…
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Roughed Up by an Orca? There’s a Code for That – NYTimes.com
Know someone who drowned from jumping off burning water skis? Well, there’s a new medical billing code for that. Michael Meistar Been injured in…
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$1 million innovation prize for bioelectronics res – TMD – Today’s Medical Developments
GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) officials announced a $1 million dollar prize for innovation in the emerging area of bioelectronics research. The prize will be awarded to…
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Former Pfizer chief Kindler joins team to launch Baltimore biotech – Baltimore Business Journal
A group of heavyweight biotech industry executives, including the former CEO of pharmaceutical giant Pfizer Inc., have formed a new Baltimore biotech company. Centrexion…
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5 biotech startups braving the new world of microbiome therapies
In the same way that great advances in our understanding of the human genome sparked new opportunities for biotech companies in the early 2000s,…
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Startup Ranks the Top 10 Universities With the Most Creative Students – InTheCapital
There's a reason why Johns Hopkins University has been named one of the top med schools worldwide and the number one hospital in the…
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Healthcare technology geeks: Prep for next year’s IT buzzwords
Every year, Silicon Valley creates new buzzwords to make its startup founders, corporate spokespeople, and “thought leaders” feel like they’re doing something important. According…
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My Top Picks in Bio-Venture Innovations, and Predictions for 2014 – Xconomy
I am a biotech VC, but not a techie. So I don’t follow stem cells, gene therapy, and other similar “blockbuster” technologies in the…
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MedImmune in Cambridge-Brazil research alliance
MedImmune’s Cambridge UK medical technology hothouse will be part of an historic tie-up between the business and the Brazilian government’s ‘Science Without Borders’ programme.…
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A bioprinting pen ‘draws’ living cells onto damaged bone
Borrowing concepts from 3D printing, scientists in Australia say they’ve come up with a device and a technique that could allow surgeons to precisely…
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