Healthcare Industry News

A police officer was shot multiple times overnight in Hartford's North End. The officer was taken to St.

GlaxoSmithKline today announced that it has signed an agreement with the World Health Organization to donate 50 million doses of its adjuvanted pandemic H1N1 influenza vaccine to WHO for distribution to developing countries most in need.

Stryker Corp. said today that it will spend more than $100 million to acquire a California software company and bone-cutting products from two other companies.

Sanofi-Aventis and Regeneron Pharmaceuticals Inc. said Tuesday they expanded an existing development partnership to run through 2017.

There were balloons, a few curious neighbors, and a horde of reporters. Two weeks after a patient repeatedly stabbed her at a Massachusetts General Hospital clinic, Dr.

Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. and Alder Biopharmaceuticals Inc. said Tuesday they signed a collaboration deal potentially worth $1 billion, with a key focus on a rheumatoid arthritis treatment.

Boston Mayor Tom Menino has undergone knee surgery to repair a torn quadriceps tendon sustained in an accident at home.

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Cedars-Sinai Medical Center officials said Monday that 260 patients had been exposed to high doses of radiation during CT brain scans during an 18-month period, up from the hospital's original estimate of 206 in September.

Enzon Pharmaceuticals, Inc. announced Monday that it intends to sell its specialty pharmaceutical business to the sigma-tau Group for more than $300 million.

Nov. 9 -- Robert Glassman, private equity partner at OrbiMed Advisors, talks with Bloomberg's Erik Schatzker and Deirdre Bolton about the practice of so-called off-label drug marketing and its impact on the industry.

Pfizer trimming research plants after buying Wyeth NEW YORK - The world's biggest drugmaker is closing six of its 20 research facilities, reorganizing others, and cutting the jobs of roughly 15 percent of its scientists and support staff.

Canadian biopharmaceutical company Bioniche Life Sciences Inc said it received the first milestone payment of US$6-million under a licensing deal with Endo Pharmaceuticals for its experimental bladder cancer drug.

Swiss hearing aid firm Sonova Holding AG said Monday it is buying cochlear implant maker Advanced Bionics Corp., based in California, for $489 million in cash.

This is a press release from the Marion County Sheriff's Department in Salem, Ore.

Melody Trimble will be the new CEO of Sparks Regional Medical Center and its more than 2,000 employees beginning Dec.

A program is beginning this month to help Iowans safely dispose of unwanted medication.

Nov. 8 - Fire fighters in the Indian state of Orissa are taking special courses in snake catching.

Bristol-Myers Squibb Company today announced that the FDA has approved a labeling update for REYATAZ A to include long-term data from the CASTLE Study.

The Fort Wayne Cardiology building will be the new home of Manchester College's School of Pharmacy in 2012.