BioSpace News Archive

Healthcare reform and economic forces are causing profound changes in how human resources professionals hire, train and retain workers, a panel of experts told more than 200 healthcare HR leaders at Worldwide Business Research’s Annual HR Healthcare Conference.

Kaleido Biosciences, a clinical-stage healthcare company leading the development of novel chemistries that drive functions of the microbiome organ, today announced that Alison Lawton, Kaleido’s president and chief operating officer (COO), has been appointed to succeed Michael Bonney as chief executive officer.

HealthCare Partners, a division of DaVita Medical Group and a part of DaVita Inc. (NYSE: DVA), today celebrated the opening of a new state-of-the-art medical facility and urgent care clinic in downtown Los Angeles at Washington Boulevard and Hoover Street.

Referencing millions of people who depend on natural kratom for pain management and to assist in withdrawal from dangerous opioids, scientific and legal experts joined the American Kratom Association (AKA) in demanding that the U.S.

Roche (SIX: RO, ROG; OTCQX: RHHBY) today commended the United States Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) for issuing new cervical cancer screening guidelines that use scientific evidence as the basis for recommending, for the first time, human papillomavirus (HPV) testing alone as the first-line screening test to detect cervical cancer and precancer.

Leading professionals in the fields of forensic DNA analysis, genetic genealogy, forensic anthropology and law enforcement will present on the latest research, trends, technologies and ethical issues at the 29th International Symposium on Human Identification (ISHI).

“My sister was born paralyzed from the waist down,” said an inventor from Jourdanton, Texas. “Throughout her life, she has had a lot of medical issues. One was a bladder infection, and she got a urostomy bag. To help keep the bag from coming off, I came up with this idea.”

mmojo.com (website: http://www.mmojo.com) today introduced mmojo, the industry’s first “B2B Marketing Data Everything” application for marketing, sales and research professionals.

The biggest hurdle to finding effective therapies for idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) – a life-threatening condition in which the lungs become scarred and breathing is increasingly difficult – has been the inability to fully model the disease in animals, limiting the ability to observe and understand the disease.

CLYZ Labs, an award-winning early-stage cancer diagnostics company, today announced that the first clinical trial involving its innovative Cancertain™ test has secured all regulatory approvals following a seed investment from the GM&C Life Sciences Fund, managed by Catapult Ventures.