While most of us are concerned about Lyme disease, a tickborne illness circulating during the spring and summertime in the Northeastern U.S, there is another, potentially more serious infection […]

SAN FRANCISCO, JUNE 8, 2015–Giant Creative/Strategy, LLC, the largest full-service independent healthcare communications agency on the West Coast, announced that Larry Wolheim, principal and co-founder, has retired. Wolheim’s career in […]

New York, NY, June 8, 2015.  NextWorks, developer of the Content Capsule™ digital marketing platform, has named pharmaceutical and healthcare marketing veteran John Ruvane as Senior Vice President, Business Development. […]

Merck has done some dramatic things in antibiotics lately. Six months ago, it bought Lexington, Mass.-based Cubist Pharmaceuticals, a leader in the field, for $8.4 billion. Then it laid off […]

Ordinarily, I differ with Harvard Medical School’s Dr. Jerry Avorn on healthcare issues, particularly when it comes to his views on the pharmaceutical industry. For example, we are on opposite […]

NEW YORK–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Pfizer Inc. (NYSE:PFE) announced today that it has twelve presentations, including new research data on tofacitinib for chronic plaque psoriasis and atopic dermatitis, at the upcoming 23rd World […]

CHAPEL HILL, N.C. & MILTON, Ontario–(BUSINESS WIRE)–POZEN Inc. (“POZEN”) (NASDAQ: POZN), a pharmaceutical company committed to developing medicine that transforms lives, today announced the acquisition of Tribute Pharmaceuticals Canada Inc. […]

DUBLIN–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/6jnm9g/2015_us) has announced the addition of the “2015 US Diagnostics Market Review and Outlook” report to their offering. This new report provides an overview of the […]

ST. PAUL, Minn. & MONTREAL–(BUSINESS WIRE)–St. Jude Medical, Inc. (NYSE:STJ), a global medical device company, today announced data from the ACCURATE Study shows that stimulation of the dorsal root ganglion […]

The polling question was simple. Should patients have access to their entire medical record ‒ including MD notes, any audio recordings, etc…? For many, the response by over 2,300 physicians […]