Patients whose blood cancer advances after initial treatments have one last therapeutic option: the engineering of their immune cells into a living medicine. But cancer is crafty and it often finds a way to…
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Population health technology company Color announced it had laid off workers as it pivots focus away from COVID-19 testing.According to posts by former employees on LinkedIn, the company cut 300 jobs. Color CEO Othman…
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Spacelabs Healthcare today announced that it has acquired predictive analytics company PeraHealth. Founded in 2010, PeraHealth develops predictive enterprise software based on the Rothman Index, a score to quantify patient acuity. PeraHealth’s solutions alert…
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Life-sciences companies faced fewer class-action securities lawsuits last year, continuing a trend of declining litigation over the last few years, according to a report published in February by the law firm Dechert LLP.Investors filed…
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The biggest threats employers are facing right now include high-cost pharmacy claims, medical inflation and million dollar treatments being approved by the Food and Drug Administration, a Wednesday survey found.
The report was conducted by…
Liz Kost, an employee at soap company Dr. Bronner’s, was stuck in a difficult place mentally after the Covid-19 pandemic hit. She tried traditional forms of therapy, such as talk therapy, but it was…
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VA Deputy Secretary Donald Remy, JD, who oversees the VA’s Oracle Cerner implementation and other initiatives as its equivalent to COO, resigns as of April 1.
Remy’s departure follows that of VA EHR…
MorphoSys, a company whose research has yielded programs placed with big pharmaceutical companies and upstart biotechs, is stopping all preclinical work to focus on cancer, particularly a late-stage drug candidate it acquired in a…
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Eli Lilly is cutting insulin prices, and this time it’s for real.
Months after a Twitter account posing as the drugmaker went viral with a tweet stating, “insulin is free now,” the company on Wednesday…
Google announced Tuesday it had rolled out fall detection features for its Pixel Watch. According to a blog post, the wearable will use its motion sensors to determine if the user has taken a hard…
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