Breaking News for Economic Issues in U.S. Healthcare

Third Rock pushes Rhythm venture round to $40M

Wed, Sep 08 2010
Third Rock is jumping on board the venture bandwagon backing the Boston-based start-up Rhythm, pushing its Series A to $40 million to fuel new trial Read more...

Premium-hike announcements draw mixed reaction

Wed, Sep 08 2010
Both sides of the health reform debate reacted Wednesday to the news that health plans were blaming the new law for premium increases in the Read more...

The Nation: No More Rahm In The White House?

Wed, Sep 08 2010
Ari Berman is a contributing writer for The Nation magazine and an Investigative Journalism Fellow at The Nation. He is the author of the forthcoming Read more...

InoLife Technologies, Inc. Announces Immediate Availability of the Cytochrome P450 2C1 Plavix Metabolizing Test to the Medical Industry

Wed, Sep 08 2010
InoLife Technologies, Inc. /quotes/comstock/11k!inol (INOL0.08, +0.04, +80.00%) , a service based healthcare products development, integration and marketing Company, is extremely pleased that their recently presented Read more...

Defensive medicine less costly than anticipated

Wed, Sep 08 2010
For the past several years, policymakers have linked physicians' fear of malpractice suits to the rise in defensive medicine, and assumed these forces were contributing Read more...

Covidien launches opioid patient safety alliance

Wed, Sep 08 2010
Covidien launched a patient safety organization – the Collaborating & Acting Responsibly to Ensure Safety (CARES) Alliance – today, featuring tools and resources for patients, Read more...

BMS forges $885M deal to buy ZymoGenetics

Wed, Sep 08 2010
Bristol-Myers Squibb has struck a deal to buy Seattle-based ZymoGenetics for $885 million, snaring its development partner on a mid-stage hepatitis C program along with Read more...

Merck's Remicade face-off puts $2.7B at risk

Wed, Sep 08 2010
The showdown over Remicade approaches. Johnson & Johnson and Merck will tussle over rights to the blockbuster anti-inflammatory drug--and its successor Simponi--in arbitration later this Read more...

St. Jude Pays $60M for 19% Stake in Med Device Co.

Wed, Sep 08 2010
St. Jude Medical, Inc., said Tuesday that it plans to pay $60 million for a 19 percent ownership stake in CardioMEMS, Inc., an Atlanta-based medical Read more...

Malpractice Adds Less than 3 Percent to Healthcare Tab

Tue, Sep 07 2010
Costs associated with medical malpractice added about $55.6 billion to the nation's total healthcare costs in 2008 -- roughly 2.4% of a more than $2.3-trillion Read more...

In New Health Affairs Issue: Medical Liablity Costs And ER Use

Tue, Sep 07 2010
Medical malpractice and reform proposals have been a longstanding battleground of U.S. health policy. On the one hand, studies have shown that health care is Read more...

Back from Labor Day: Three Posts You Should Read

Tue, Sep 07 2010
Was there a summer slowdown this year in the tech-business world? I’m not so sure (and neither are some other observers). In any case, let’s Read more...

Cockroaches linked to fighting superbugs

Tue, Sep 07 2010
Cockroaches have long been regarded as an unwanted pest but in fact they could hold the secret to treating the most resilient of superbugs, scientists Read more...

Ghostwritten articles overstate benefits of hormone replacement therapy and downplay harms

Tue, Sep 07 2010
"The first academic analysis of the 1500 documents unsealed in recent litigation against the pharmaceutical giant Wyeth (now part of Pfizer) reveals unprecedented insights into Read more...

Steep rate hikes on way for individual health insurance

Mon, Sep 06 2010
Read more...

High-tech sector puts brakes on hiring

Mon, Sep 06 2010
For years the technology sector has been considered the most dynamic, promising and globally envied industry in the United States. It escaped the recession relatively Read more...

City’s Efforts Fail to Dent Child Obesity

Sat, Sep 04 2010
New York City schoolchildren are as heavy, or perhaps even heavier, than the national average, despite the Bloomberg administration’s dogged efforts to improve the health Read more...

Half Of Americans Are Taking Prescription Meds

Fri, Sep 03 2010
More than 48 percent of all Americans took at least one prescription drug each month in 2008, which amounts to a 10 percent increase over Read more...

Mobile Health: New Cell Phone-Based Technologies Transform Emergency Care

Wed, Sep 01 2010
Mobile phone technology is rapidly changing how healthcare is delivered, even as health wonks sit around wondering how we’re going to pay for it. While Read more...

Health reform foes request federal funds for early retirees

Wed, Sep 01 2010
  About two dozen businesses associated with high-profile opposition to the healthcare reform law are taking advantage of a provision that helps pay for their Read more...

States take hypocritical stance on health reform

Wed, Sep 01 2010
Some states are taking a two-faced approach to the healthcare overhaul law. Seven states are suing to overturn the healthcare reform law, saying it's unconstitutional, Read more...

Controlling Health Care Costs: U.S. Versus England

Wed, Sep 01 2010
As leaders argue about how to control the skyrocketing costs of cancer care, some say it is worthwhile to look at how other countries, such Read more...

New Poll Shows Support Slipping Again For Healthcare Reform Law

Wed, Sep 01 2010
After bumping up in a July poll, public support for the healthcare reform law in a new poll is back to its May levels, according Read more...

Innovators in Boston, San Diego, San Francisco, Northwest Top World Economic Forum’s List of Technology Pioneers

Wed, Sep 01 2010
The World Economic Forum—the body behind the exclusive annual gathering in Davos, Switzerland—today released its “Technology Pioneers” list for 2011. An unusually large number of Read more...

Genzyme CEO open to sale, not at $69 a share

Wed, Sep 01 2010
In an interview with Reuters, Termeer said it was unlikely that French drugmaker Sanofi-Aventis SA (SASY.PA) would go hostile with its $18.5 billion bid and Read more...