BioHealth News Archive
Does your mobile health app need FDA clearance? Checklist gives guidance for digital health entrepreneurs – MedCity News
A week after the Congressional hearings discussed how the US Food and Drug Administration’s impending regulatory guidelines (expected by October) will impact mobile health…
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HHS’ Sebelius: Brace for healthcare cost ‘shifting’ (ie. increased costs for men, the young) – MedCity News
President Barack Obama's top healthcare adviser acknowledged on Tuesday that costs could rise in the individual health insurance market, particularly for men and younger…
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Emergent BioSolutions, other Michigan companies bring in students for fresh ideas – BioPrepWatch.com
Emergent BioSolutions, Inc., a global specialty pharmaceutical company, is generating fresh ideas from Michigan State University students at its Lansing location to improve operations.…
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New Enterprise Associates is not a private equity firm – Washington Business Journal
Sure, New Enterprise Associates is much, much bigger than most venture capital firms. And not all of their deals fall neatly into what we…
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Maryland Eastern Shore’s first full-service business incubator approved – MDBIZNews
Tech entrepreneurs will soon find a new home at Innovation Crossroads, the Eastern Shore’s first, full-service business incubator. Gov. Martin O’Malley and the department…
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Transformation, From A to Zed – Site Selection Online
Two announcements on Monday and Thursday of last week signaled a fundamental strategic and physical shift for biopharma giant AstraZeneca, including the establishment of…
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6 healthcare IT investment opportunities and trends for angels and startups – MedCity News
Many of the changes in the healthcare industry outlined by the Affordable Care Act and HITECH Act call for shifting to healthcare IT for…
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A ‘Series A crunch’ for Internet startups (just as digital health is taking off)? – MedCity News
The Series A crunch has left the realm of Bigfoot and Nessie and is entering the realm of truth, at least according to Fenwick…
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8 Reasons Why Every Health Tech Startup Should Use Crowdfunding
Why not explore what’s to gain from crowdfunding when there’s nothing to lose? MedStartr’s co-founder and CEO Alex Fair explains. Alex Fair, Co-Founder &…
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Biotech VCs Aren’t Lemmings Anymore. They’re Lone Rangers – Xconomy
A certain song has been running through my head the past few days. Lately, it strikes me as an anthem of sorts for biotech…
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Third Rock Stocks Up With $516M New Fund, Looks to Start 16 Cos – Xconomy
Third Rock Ventures has spent the last six years betting big on early stage biotech investing when most other VC firms have been hunkering…
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Genomics research supplier rounds up $21.3 million from China-focused investors – MedCity News
In a demonstration of the booming field of genomic research, investors have pumped $21.3 million into a company that makes and manufactures genome-wide research…
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Startup Maryland Starts Raise Your Game initiative
Startup Maryland (www.startupmd.org), a regional initiative of the national Startup America Partnership (www.s.co), today announced the Raise Your Game initiative to provide the Maryland…
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Tech Council chairman: IT industry not in danger, but pay dropping – Gazette.Net
The outsourcing of information technology jobs being seen at Bethesda hotel giant Marriott International is not likely a harbinger of more to come, technology…
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DC Based Government Contractor to Launch New Startup Accelerator
Sequoia Holdings, Inc., a leading provider of software development solutions to the U.S. Intelligence Community, is teaming up with Washington DC area private equity…
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