News What’s driving the surge in new-drug approvals? | McKinsey & Company Much has been written about the pharmaceutical industry’s R&D-productivity challenge during the past decade: the decline in new-drug approvals has…Super UserNovember 18, 2013
News GlaxoSmithKline’s $15 million new asthma drug approved GlaxoSmithKline and Theravance's new inhaled lung drug Relvar has been approved in Europe to treat both asthma and chronic obstructive…Super UserNovember 18, 2013
News QIAGEN announces third co-development program for companion diagnostics paired with Lilly’s investigational cancer compounds QIAGEN (NASDAQ: QGEN; Frankfurt, Prime Standard: QIA) today announced an agreement with Eli Lilly and Company (NYSE: LLY) to develop…Super UserNovember 18, 2013
News The Biotech Startup Class of 2013: Don’t Worry, It’s a Short List – Xconomy We’ve heard a lot this year about the IPO boom for biotech companies. Even after a few high-profile blowups (Ariad,…Super UserNovember 18, 2013
News MedImmune appoints head of research – PMLiVE AstraZeneca (AZ) has strengthened its research team by appointing leading academic Dr Yong-Jun Liu as head of research at its…Super UserNovember 18, 2013
News Pfizer latest big pharma investor in Mission following £20m funding round | Cambridge technology news | Cabume A Cambridge company developing new drugs focused around DNA damage and genetically defined cancers has attracted investment from another pharma…Super UserNovember 18, 2013
News BioEquity Europe – Call for Presenting Companies Apply Now to be a Presenting Company at Bio€quity Europe 2014Now celebrating its 15th meeting, Bio€quity Europe is the premier…Super UserNovember 18, 2013
News Risk Calculator for Cholesterol Appears Flawed – NYTimes.com Last week, the nation’s leading heart organizations released a sweeping new set of guidelines for lowering cholesterol, along with an…Super UserNovember 18, 2013
News The Biggest Mistake Doctors Make – Wall Street Journal – WSJ.com A patient with abdominal pain dies from a ruptured appendix after a doctor fails to do a complete physical exam.…Super UserNovember 18, 2013
News Watson now open for app development – Healthcare IT News IBM has made its Watson cognitive computing technology available as a cloud-based app development platform, and healthcare vendors are already…Super UserNovember 18, 2013