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Biotech Bay

VivaLNK Offers Wearable Healthcare Devices for Study on Stress and Teenage Depression

VivaLNK’s Vital Scout to be used in a Stanford study to help quantify stress reactivity and recovery in order to explore links with teenage depression

September 12, 2018
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Pharm Country

Bausch Health Announces Resolution Of XIFAXAN® Intellectual Property Litigation

Bausch Health Companies Inc.together with Salix’s licensors Cedars-Sinai Medical Center and Alfasigma SpA (collectively the “Salix Parties”), have agreed to resolve the outstanding intellectual property litigation with Actavis Laboratories FL, Inc

September 12, 2018
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5 min read
Job Trends

Fifth Annual Healthcare Analytics Summit Kicks Off with Record Attendance

The fifth annual Healthcare Analytics Summit™ (HAS 18), the world’s leading forum on digital innovation and disruption in healthcare, kicks off today with record attendance of over 1,500 healthcare professionals from across the country.

September 12, 2018
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BioCapital

Hurricane Warning: Survey Reveals Healthcare Organizations Doubt Their Disaster Plans are Up to the Task

As Hurricane Florence hurtles toward the East Coast, a new survey reveals that only slightly more than half of healthcare providers believe their organization’s disaster plan is comprehensive enough to cover a variety of disaster scenarios both inside the organization and across the community.

September 12, 2018
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5 min read
Biotech Beach

STAAR Surgical Announces EVO ICL Clinical Program for its 15th Annual Surgical Experts Summit in Vienna, Austria, from September 19 – 21, 2018

STAAR Surgical Company is today announcing the EVO ICL Clinical Program which will be presented by Ophthalmic Surgeons to Ophthalmic Surgeons at its invitation only Surgical Experts Summit expected to be attended by over 250 surgeons and invited clinician guests from forty-three countries.

September 12, 2018
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Drug Development

Spectrum Pharmaceuticals Expands Poziotinib Clinical Trial Into First-Line Therapy and Doses First Patient

Spectrum’s Phase 2 non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) study expanded to include two new cohorts for first-line NSCLC patients with EGFR or HER2 exon 20 insertion mutations

September 12, 2018
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Business

Renovia Appoints Dan Levangie to Its Board of Directors

Renovia Inc. today announced Dan Levangie has joined its Board of Directors.

September 12, 2018
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2 min read
Microbiome Insights Receives Funding from the Government of Canada to Develop New Microbiome Testing Platform for Managing Chronic Disease

Microbiome Insights, Inc. is pleased to announce that it will receive a contribution of up to $190,249 from the National Research Council of Canada Industrial Research Assistance Program (NRC IRAP) to help support the development of a new personal health platform of microbiome testing.

September 12, 2018
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1 min read
Business

Akili Announces Exclusive Licensing Agreement for New Digital Technology Integrating Neural Systems Targeting and Physical Activity as Novel Cognitive Dysfunction Treatment Platform

Developed by leading neuroscientists at the U.C. San Francisco, currently in multiple clinical trials

September 12, 2018
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4 min read
Biotech Bay

More Than 180 Life Sciences Companies Adopt Veeva Vault Quality Applications to Modernize Quality Processes

Leading innovators are streamlining quality management across their organizations and with external partners

September 12, 2018
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4 min read