BioHealth News Archive
Maryland entrepreneurs share crowdfunding success stories – Baltimore Business Journal
For budding startups, accumulating funding is necessary — but difficult. Crowdfunding can be a viable alternative for entrepreneurs. That was one key takeaway for…
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No luck landing VC? Try ‘credit cards, duct tape and shoestrings’ – Baltimore Business Journal
Paul Silber had some unexpected advice from a venture capitalist for the entrepreneurs who crowded a conference room at the BWI Airport Marriott Monday…
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Why Can’t You Take Your Medical Data on Holiday?: Scientific American
We’ve all done it. You throw your clothes in a bag and head to the airport. Sixteen hours later, you’re in a country where…
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What’s driving the surge in new-drug approvals? | McKinsey & Company
Much has been written about the pharmaceutical industry’s R&D-productivity challenge during the past decade: the decline in new-drug approvals has raised discovery and development…
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GlaxoSmithKline’s $15 million new asthma drug approved
GlaxoSmithKline and Theravance's new inhaled lung drug Relvar has been approved in Europe to treat both asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), confirming…
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QIAGEN announces third co-development program for companion diagnostics paired with Lilly’s investigational cancer compounds
QIAGEN (NASDAQ: QGEN; Frankfurt, Prime Standard: QIA) today announced an agreement with Eli Lilly and Company (NYSE: LLY) to develop and commercialize a molecular…
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The Biotech Startup Class of 2013: Don’t Worry, It’s a Short List – Xconomy
We’ve heard a lot this year about the IPO boom for biotech companies. Even after a few high-profile blowups (Ariad, Sarepta), the public biotech…
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MedImmune appoints head of research – PMLiVE
AstraZeneca (AZ) has strengthened its research team by appointing leading academic Dr Yong-Jun Liu as head of research at its MedImmune subsidiary. AZ has…
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Pfizer latest big pharma investor in Mission following £20m funding round | Cambridge technology news | Cabume
A Cambridge company developing new drugs focused around DNA damage and genetically defined cancers has attracted investment from another pharma giant, Pfizer, in its…
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BioEquity Europe – Call for Presenting Companies
Apply Now to be a Presenting Company at Bio€quity Europe 2014Now celebrating its 15th meeting, Bio€quity Europe is the premier industry event for financial…
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Risk Calculator for Cholesterol Appears Flawed – NYTimes.com
Last week, the nation’s leading heart organizations released a sweeping new set of guidelines for lowering cholesterol, along with an online calculator meant to…
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The Biggest Mistake Doctors Make – Wall Street Journal – WSJ.com
A patient with abdominal pain dies from a ruptured appendix after a doctor fails to do a complete physical exam. A biopsy comes back…
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Watson now open for app development – Healthcare IT News
IBM has made its Watson cognitive computing technology available as a cloud-based app development platform, and healthcare vendors are already getting in on the…
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PCLS Announces Partnership with 20/20 GeneSystems (Rockville, MD) to offer PAULA’s Test to Aid in the Early Detection of Lung Cancer
Physician’s Choice Laboratory Services (PCLS) announced today that it has recently partnered with Genesys Biolabs, a division of 20/20 GeneSystems, Inc. (Rockville, MD) to…
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Who are some of the billionaires investing in mobile health?
Mark Cuban’s comments about personalized health may have turned a few heads but as one source soberly reminded us, he is not the first…
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