Big Names Take Hit on Theranos
Blood-testing company got much of its funding from high-profile private investors who weren ’t part of the ecosystem that typically backs startups and could see their stakes wiped out. (Source: WSJ.com: Health)
Source: WSJ.com: Health - November 29, 2016 Category: Pharmaceuticals Tags: PAID Source Type: news
Anthem and Cigna at Odds Over Proposed Merger
Newly unsealed court testimony shows health insurers Anthem and Cigna have significant disagreements over their proposed merger, offering details about a rift that is highly unusual for two companies pressing to merge. (Source: WSJ.com: Health)
Source: WSJ.com: Health - November 29, 2016 Category: Pharmaceuticals Tags: PAID Source Type: news
Theranos Sued for Alleged Fraud by Robertson Stephens Co-Founder Colman
Robertson Stephens& Co. co-founder Robert Colman accused Theranos Inc. in a lawsuit filed Monday of making false and misleading claims about its operations and technology while soliciting money from investors. (Source: WSJ.com: Health)
Source: WSJ.com: Health - November 29, 2016 Category: Pharmaceuticals Tags: PAID Source Type: news
UnitedHealth Gives Upbeat Outlook for 2017
UnitedHealth Group on Monday preannounced guidance for next year that topped expectations ahead of the health insurer ’s annual investor conference. (Source: WSJ.com: Health)
Source: WSJ.com: Health - November 28, 2016 Category: Pharmaceuticals Tags: PAID Source Type: news
Playgrounds for an Aging Population
The idea: Outdoor exercise is good for older adults both physically and mentally. (Source: WSJ.com: Health)
Source: WSJ.com: Health - November 28, 2016 Category: Pharmaceuticals Tags: FREE Source Type: news
Can't Get to Sleep? Lay Off the Drugs
Doctors are steering patients to solutions other than sleep aids (Source: WSJ.com: Health)
Source: WSJ.com: Health - November 28, 2016 Category: Pharmaceuticals Tags: FREE Source Type: news
Drugmakers Find Competition Doesn't Keep a Lid on Prices
Pfizer and Eli Lilly have raised the price of their erectile-dysfunction drugs Viagra and Cialis almost in lockstep over the past few years, a common practice in the pharmaceutical industry. (Source: WSJ.com: Health)
Source: WSJ.com: Health - November 28, 2016 Category: Pharmaceuticals Tags: FREE Source Type: news
J & J Approaches Swiss Firm Actelion About Potential Deal
Johnson& Johnson has approached Swiss biopharmaceutical company Actelion about a possible deal, the two companies said Friday. (Source: WSJ.com: Health)
Source: WSJ.com: Health - November 26, 2016 Category: Pharmaceuticals Tags: PAID Source Type: news
Eli Lilly Alzheimer's Drug Fails Trial; Shares Plunge
An experimental Eli Lilly drug failed to significantly help Alzheimer ’s disease patients in a closely watched clinical trial, dealing another blow to the pharmaceutical industry’s long quest to find a better treatment for the brain-damaging condition. (Source: WSJ.com: Health)
Source: WSJ.com: Health - November 24, 2016 Category: Pharmaceuticals Tags: PAID Source Type: news
Slow Start for Soda Makers' Push to Cut Calories
U.S. beverage calories per person declined only 0.2% in 2015, a slower rate of decrease than in earlier years, despite efforts by the likes of Coke and Pepsi to cut such calories in the American diet by 20% over a decade. (Source: WSJ.com: Health)
Source: WSJ.com: Health - November 23, 2016 Category: Pharmaceuticals Tags: PAID Source Type: news
Fentanyl Billionaire Under Fire as Opioid Death Toll Mounts
Just a handful of doctors, many with close ties to Insys Therapeutics, co-founded by John N. Kapoor, are responsible for outsize levels of prescribing of Subsys, a form of the powerful opioid fentanyl, according to a Wall Street Journal analysis. Federal and state prosecutors and regulators in more than 15 jurisdictions are investigating the company ’s business practices. (Source: WSJ.com: Health)
Source: WSJ.com: Health - November 23, 2016 Category: Pharmaceuticals Tags: PAID Source Type: news
Alaska's Novel Plan to Cut Health Premium Costs
Health-insurance premiums for Alaskans have been soaring almost 40% a year. That prompted the state government to make a novel move: to pay health costs for about 500 of the sickest residents to hold down premiums for everyone else. (Source: WSJ.com: Health)
Source: WSJ.com: Health - November 23, 2016 Category: Pharmaceuticals Tags: PAID Source Type: news
Some Zika-Caused Defects Show Up Well After Birth
More than a year after doctors in Brazil first suspected the Zika virus was behind a wave of babies born with deforming birth defects, a new realization is coming into focus: Even babies appearing normal at birth aren’t necessarily out of the woods. (Source: WSJ.com: Health)
Source: WSJ.com: Health - November 23, 2016 Category: Pharmaceuticals Tags: PAID Source Type: news
House Republicans Ask to Put on Hold Case Against Obama's Health-Care Law
Attorneys for the U.S. House of Representatives asked a federal court to delay a lawsuit over President Barack Obama ’s signature health-care law, citing negotiations with President-elect Donald Trump over the future of the Affordable Care Act. (Source: WSJ.com: Health)
Source: WSJ.com: Health - November 22, 2016 Category: Pharmaceuticals Tags: PAID Source Type: news
Brewers Bet Beer Drinkers Seek More Sober Suds
After years of trying and failing to jump-start sales of alcohol-free beer, brewers like AB InBev, Heineken and Carlsberg are expanding their nonalcoholic offerings with renewed zeal. (Source: WSJ.com: Health)
Source: WSJ.com: Health - November 22, 2016 Category: Pharmaceuticals Tags: PAID Source Type: news
