Missouri initiative campaigns confident of achieving signature goals
Three initiative campaigns say they are on track to submit signatures that would put measures to legalize abortion and sports wagering, and to increase the minimum wage, on Missouri ’s ballot this year. Campaign finance reports filed this week show more than $10 million, much of it from out-of-state organizations, has been raised to fuel the campaigns. Only one opposition group, seeking to prevent abortion rights from making the ballot, is active. And its resources, much of it from Catholic churches,… (Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Pharmaceuticals headlines)
Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Pharmaceuticals headlines - April 17, 2024 Category: Pharmaceuticals Authors: Rudi Keller Source Type: news

Family of elderly woman who wandered from memory care files wrongful death lawsuit
The woman had moved into the facility less than 24 hours before she went missing. (Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Pharmaceuticals headlines)
Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Pharmaceuticals headlines - April 17, 2024 Category: Pharmaceuticals Authors: Elizabeth Hayes Source Type: news

Big drugmaker's cancer rollback trickles down to another Bay Area company
The 200-employee Peninsula drug company saw its stock fall more than 11%. (Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Pharmaceuticals headlines)
Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Pharmaceuticals headlines - April 17, 2024 Category: Pharmaceuticals Authors: Ron Leuty Source Type: news

New Colorado medical college one step closer to reality
A bill that would help fund a new medical college in northern Colorado has advanced. (Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Pharmaceuticals headlines)
Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Pharmaceuticals headlines - April 17, 2024 Category: Pharmaceuticals Authors: Angela Ufheil Source Type: news

Legacy Health rehires former CEO after Correia retirement
The leadership transition comes as Legacy and OHSU pursue a merger that would create one of the region's largest employers. (Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Pharmaceuticals headlines)
Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Pharmaceuticals headlines - April 17, 2024 Category: Pharmaceuticals Authors: Elizabeth Hayes Source Type: news

AdventHealth helps create groups to define AI use in health care
Here's why AdventHealth joined two organizations designed to establish best practices for the use of artificial intelligence in health care. (Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Pharmaceuticals headlines)
Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Pharmaceuticals headlines - April 17, 2024 Category: Pharmaceuticals Authors: Sarah Kinbar Source Type: news

Peninsula VC adds more than $100 million, brings on former Pfizer exec as partner
The VC has raised more than $1 billion over the past year. (Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Pharmaceuticals headlines)
Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Pharmaceuticals headlines - April 17, 2024 Category: Pharmaceuticals Authors: Ron Leuty Source Type: news

Meet the finalists for Atlanta Business Chronicle ’s 2024 Health Care Champion awards
Meet some of Atlanta's most innovative and influential health care leaders. (Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Pharmaceuticals headlines)
Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Pharmaceuticals headlines - April 17, 2024 Category: Pharmaceuticals Authors: Crystal Edmonson Source Type: news

Fujifilm Diosynth layoffs hit North Carolina amid billion-dollar expansion
As it plans a massive expansion in Holly Springs, Fujifilm Diosynth Biotechnologies is cutting dozens of jobs in Research Triangle Park. (Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Pharmaceuticals headlines)
Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Pharmaceuticals headlines - April 17, 2024 Category: Pharmaceuticals Authors: Zac Ezzone Source Type: news

Philadelphia region's life sciences tech hub seeks $75M in federal funds
A coalition of more than 100 organizations in the Philadelphia region has submitted a funding proposal to the government outlining its strategy for advancing the local life sciences industry. (Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Pharmaceuticals headlines)
Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Pharmaceuticals headlines - April 17, 2024 Category: Pharmaceuticals Authors: John George Source Type: news

WVU Medicine Uniontown to reopen birthing unit
Helped by grant from Appalachian Regional Commission. (Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Pharmaceuticals headlines)
Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Pharmaceuticals headlines - April 17, 2024 Category: Pharmaceuticals Authors: Paul J. Gough Source Type: news

UCF medical school partners with Nemours Children's Health
The new relationship comes as the college of medicine at UCF has worked with Nemours for several years. (Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Pharmaceuticals headlines)
Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Pharmaceuticals headlines - April 17, 2024 Category: Pharmaceuticals Authors: Ryan Lynch Source Type: news

Former NBA, Wake Forest star Rodney Rogers sues Blue Cross NC for 'reckless' care denial
A 2008 accident left Rodney Rogers paralyzed and in need of in-home care. Now, the former NBA player says Blue Cross NC is putting his life at risk by denying coverage. (Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Pharmaceuticals headlines)
Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Pharmaceuticals headlines - April 17, 2024 Category: Pharmaceuticals Authors: Lauren Ohnesorge Source Type: news

Longevity startup Loyal is working on a drug to extend the lifespan of dogs
From Bay Area Inno. When Loyal CEO Celine Halioua received a letter from the FDA offering approval of the effectiveness of its drug, it felt like the best day of her life.   The company, which is developing therapies to extend the lifespan of dogs, is the first of a handful of similar startups that has made it to the next stage of development: clinical trials. Last November, the FDA approved the Reasonable Expectation of Effectiveness section in Loyal’s application for conditional approval of… (Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Pharmaceuticals headlines)
Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Pharmaceuticals headlines - April 17, 2024 Category: Pharmaceuticals Authors: Elizabeth Moss Source Type: news

Microbes that break down plastic? Wyss, Colossal spinout to tackle pollution
A new Boston-based startup with ties to Harvard University's Wyss Institute and Colossal Biosciences, a startup co-founded by Harvard geneticist George Church, has launched to tackle a pervasive problem: Plastic pollution. (Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Pharmaceuticals headlines)
Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Pharmaceuticals headlines - April 17, 2024 Category: Pharmaceuticals Authors: Hannah Green Source Type: news