Why Ireland-based Almac is investing $65M to expand in Montgomery County
Almac is also looking to add 350 employees in Montgomery County. (Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Pharmaceuticals headlines)
Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Pharmaceuticals headlines - March 18, 2024 Category: Pharmaceuticals Authors: John George Source Type: news

Mass General Brigham, Bunker Hill to train lab workforce
Mass General Brigham and Bunker Hill Community College are training new medical laboratory workers supported by a $1.2 million grant from the city. (Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Pharmaceuticals headlines)
Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Pharmaceuticals headlines - March 18, 2024 Category: Pharmaceuticals Authors: Cassie McGrath Source Type: news

Highmark officials defend layoffs, use of overseas workers
Highmark Health executives defended recent rounds of layoffs and the use of a foreign company for some back-office duties, saying the company has grown in some areas while at the same time it ’s changing in others. (Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Pharmaceuticals headlines)
Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Pharmaceuticals headlines - March 18, 2024 Category: Pharmaceuticals Authors: Paul J. Gough Source Type: news

Manufacturer Schott Pharma selects Wilson in NC for 400-job plant
A pharma company will invest hundreds of millions of dollars in a new factory in North Carolina to fill a gap in the supply chain. (Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Pharmaceuticals headlines)
Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Pharmaceuticals headlines - March 18, 2024 Category: Pharmaceuticals Authors: Zac Ezzone Source Type: news

Inside Health Policy hires Brown as a reporter
Inside Health Policy has hired Jalen Brown as a reporter covering the Affordable Care Act, COVID-19, and Congressional health care news. He has been at Bloomberg Government covering finance, policy and Congress. Brown previously was a digital writer at CNN. He interned as a labor and employment…#insidehealthpolicy #jalenbrown #affordablecareact #congressional #bloomberggovernment (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - March 18, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

AstraZeneca capping patients' monthly out-of-pocket expenses for inhaled medicines at $35
The AstraZeneca patient spending cap comes amid a U.S. Senate investigation into the pricing of inhaled medicines in the United States. (Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Pharmaceuticals headlines)
Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Pharmaceuticals headlines - March 18, 2024 Category: Pharmaceuticals Authors: John George Source Type: news

Jim Cramer: It's not too late to buy this portfolio health-care stock after Friday's selloff
Every weekday the CNBC Investing Club with Jim Cramer holds a "Morning Meeting" livestream at 10:20 a.m. ET. Here's a recap of Monday's key moments. U.S. stocks jumped Monday as the Nasdaq and S & P 500 attempts to recover from back-to-back weekly losses. Major gains were seen in tech stocks to…#cnbcinvestingclub #jimcramer #morningmeeting #nvidia #gtc #jensenhuang #apple #alphabet #google #iphone (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - March 18, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

UpHealth completes $180 million sale
The firm filed for bankruptcy last year. (Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Pharmaceuticals headlines)
Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Pharmaceuticals headlines - March 18, 2024 Category: Pharmaceuticals Authors: Ashley Portero Source Type: news

Manufacturer selects Eastern North Carolina city for 400-job plant
A pharma company will invest hundreds of millions in a new factory in North Carolina to fill a gap in the supply chain. (Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Pharmaceuticals headlines)
Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Pharmaceuticals headlines - March 18, 2024 Category: Pharmaceuticals Authors: Zac Ezzone Source Type: news

Millions at stake in fight over one MRI scanner in Wake County
A years-long dispute involving Duke Health over a new MRI machine in Wake County shows the logjam that often results around the state's rules for new health care facilities. (Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Pharmaceuticals headlines)
Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Pharmaceuticals headlines - March 18, 2024 Category: Pharmaceuticals Authors: Zac Ezzone Source Type: news

Biotech upgrades to new Watertown digs with triple the space
The company is now leasing about 100,000 square feet of office and laboratory space at 500 North Beacon St. in Watertown. (Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Biotechnology headlines)
Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Biotechnology headlines - March 18, 2024 Category: Biotechnology Authors: Hannah Green Source Type: news

Radical hospitality: innovative programming to build community and meet the needs of people who use drugs at a government-sanctioned overdose prevention site in San Francisco, California - Wenger LD, Morris T, Knight KR, Megerian CE, Davidson PJ, Suen LW, Majano V, Lambdin BH, Kral AH.
BACKGROUND: The Tenderloin Center (TLC), a multi-service center where people could receive or be connected to basic needs, behavioral health care, housing, and medical services, was open in San Francisco for 46 weeks in 2022. Within a week of operation, se... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - March 18, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Alcohol and Other Drugs Source Type: news

Nigeria: Promoting Accreditation for Community Health Service in Nigeria
[Nigeria Health Watch] The private sector plays a major role in reducing inequities in access to health, with over 54% of the private sector outlets providing modern contraceptives in Nigeria. Patent proprietary medicine vendors (PPMVs) and Community Pharmacists (CPs) make up an essential part of the primary health care provision in Nigeria. They are a primary source of healthcare in the communities where they serve, especially for the purchase of medicines including contraceptives and they account for about 71% of modern (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - March 18, 2024 Category: African Health Tags: Health and Medicine Nigeria West Africa Source Type: news

A community-based approach to improving health outcomes across Washington state
Since joining UnitedHealthcare Community Plan of Washington as CEO, I spent the past year traveling throughout the state to meet providers, community leaders and members. I kept one goal in mind — to intimately understand the needs of Washingtonians, so we can do our part to help improve the health of our great state. From the Olympic Peninsula, across the Cascades and to the Palouse, the needs of every community are just about as diverse as the land we call home. Yet through our convers ations,… (Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Pharmaceuticals headlines)
Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Pharmaceuticals headlines - March 18, 2024 Category: Pharmaceuticals Authors: Keith Payet Source Type: news

Doctors are turning medical generative AI into a booming business
The hottest new technology for doctors promises to bring back an age-old health-care practice: face-to-face conversations with patients. As more than 30,000 health and tech professionals gathered among the palm trees at the HIMSS conference in Orlando, Florida, this week, ambient clinical…#himss #orlando #florida #nuancecommunications #shivrao #abridge #clinicians #athenahealth #kennethharper #daxcopilot (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - March 18, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news