BioSpace News Archive

Monies from Hong Kong investors fuel innovation, new product development, and increased access to CBD for patients

Blessed Extracts, LLC announced it was awarded its Annual Type 7 Volatile Manufacturing License from California’s Department of Public Health.

Care Indeed, a leading home care provider, is pleased to launch Virtual Reality Dementia Training, powered by Strivr, for caregivers and community members.

Providence Heart Institute – the highest volume and most comprehensive heart program between Seattle and San Francisco – has received a $75 million gift from Phil and Penny Knight to support continued growth and innovation in cardiac services, including the development of a heart transplant program at Providence.

Participating in the Blue Cross Blue Shield Alliance for Health Research, a study from Harvard Medical School accessed Blue Cross Blue Shield Axis, the largest source of commercial insurance claims

Endo International plc announced that Par Pharmaceutical, Inc., its wholly-owned subsidiary, priced $1.5 billion aggregate principal amount of 7.500% senior secured notes due 2027 at an issue price of $1,000 per $1,000 principal amount in connection with its previously announced private offering, which represents an upsize of $500.0 million over the previously contemplated offering amount.

Record-fast speeds make classical Raman spectroscopy more practical for biomedical applications

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today approved a new indication for a heart valve repair device that is intended to reduce moderate-to-severe or severe mitral regurgitation, a leakage of blood backward through the mitral valve into the heart’s left atrium that can cause heart failure symptoms such as shortness of breath, fatigue and swelling in the legs

Third party benefits administrators (TPAs) who offer Health Reimbursement Arrangements (HRAs) to their clients often find themselves frustrated by their system’s HRA capabilities.

In one of the first cases of its kind, this week Judge Kenneth Hoyt in Houston ordered “compassionate release” from prison under the First Step Act — a new law that took effect last year.