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UMKC professor: How businesses can save billions on drug trials
Gerald Wyckoff said his goal to ax drug development costs by 70 percent is achievable, and the University of Missouri-Kansas City professor hopes to accomplish that by working with Kansas State...
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Sweden’s Recipharm grows RTP ops
Sweden’s Recipharm – a global contract development and manufacturing organization (CDMO) – is continuing to grow its local operations after a Research Triangle Park-based acquisition last year....
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Stanford Health Care will start hailing Uber rides for patients
Stanford Health Care last week contracted Boston-based Circulation to order Uber rides for patients. For years, the Stanford hospital contracted with a taxi company for their non-emergency rides, like...
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At high-stakes table, growing Peninsula biotech antes up with 'fatty-liver' drug
Even before morbidly overweight people lose pounds through gastric bypass surgery — within only a couple days of the procedure — they shed obesity-related diabetes. Tagging the phenomenon to a specific...
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Washington receives federal funding to combat opioid epidemic
Washington will receive nearly $12 million from the federal government to fight the opioid epidemic that is spreading across the state and nation. The number of King County deaths related to...
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Health care leader prepares to dig in for D.C. fight
Martin Hickey, CEO of New Mexico Health Connections, is ready to get things moving in the District of Columbia this week. His schedule consists of meeting with lawmakers and exploring improvements for...
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Bay Area biotech slashes half of staff after drug partnerships falter
Bay Area biotech OncoMed Pharmaceuticals will cut about half its staff in a bid to reduce costs, the company said Monday, after a series of stumbles in clinical trials left the firm struggling. Redwood...
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Q&A: With St. Rita's Square, Tarantino keeps growing in senior living
Jim Tarantino’s senior housing firm made its third announcement this year for a project of $20 million or more by unveiling St. Rita’s Square on Milwaukee’s lower east side. Tarantino & Co. of...
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Bay Area biotech slashes half of staff after drug partnerships falter
OncoMed Pharmaceuticals will cut about half its staff in a bid to reduce costs, the company said Monday, after a series of stumbles in clinical trials left the firm struggling. Redwood City-based...
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Hickenlooper signs 3 health-care bills into law
Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper has signed three health-care bills into law over the past six days, including: Senate Bill 88, sponsored by Republican Senate Majority Leader Chris Holbert of Parker and...
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Science 37 raises $29 million to expand clinical trials to patients’ homes
About 5 percent of minorities are represented in clinical trials. That number can drop to less than 2 percent in cancer trials. Science 37 aims to address this diversity disparity — and make clinical...
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Company to create 120 jobs in senior living center after closing $6M deal
Allegro Senior Living acquired a development site in Parkland, where it plans to have 120 to 130 employees in a new senior living center. EP Lox LLC, managed by Aventura-based Preferred Developers and...
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Massachusetts is No. 2 in U.S. for children's health, WalletHub says
Massachusetts is the second-best state in the country for cost, quality and access to children’s health care, according to a recent WalletHub study. The study looked at 28 factors from a variety of...
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Akebia expands anemia drug pact with Japanese firm, lifting shares
Shares of Cambridge-based Akebia Therapeutics spiked on Tuesday after the company said it had expanded a potentially lucrative collaboration deal for its anemia drug. Akebia (Nasdaq: AKBA) previously...
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Houston indoor farming co. agrees to acquire San Antonio co. to focus on...
Houston-based Indoor Harvest Corp. will acquire San Antonio-based Alamo CBD LLC to create a company focused on medical cannabis, according to a press release. The companies first announced they were...
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Hawaii lawmakers approve funds for Maui hospital transfer
Hawaii lawmakers have approved a budget bill providing funds for the transfer of operations of Maui Memorial Medical Center and two other state-owned Maui County hospitals to private health care...
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Health care costs: How do we fix this broken record?
A broken record is figuratively defined as a statement or experience that is frequently, and perhaps tediously, repeated. If you’re a regular reader of my articles, you might think that I’m starting to...
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Baltimore-area physicians make 3rd lowest salaries nationally, report says
Physicians in the Baltimore area are paid the third lowest average annual salary nationwide, according to a new report. Greater Baltimore doctors make an average salary of $281,005, according to data...
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Boston doctors might not have the healthiest paychecks in the U.S.
Despite being a global hub for health care, Boston doctors on avaergae make far less than their counterparts throughout the country. Boston doctors earned some of the lowest salaries in the country...
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Female physicians paid less than male doctors in every major metro, every...
A new study suggests that even the highly skilled medical field isn’t immune from wide discrepancies in how much men and women are paid for the same work. The medical social network Doximity surveyed...
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