Tag: healthcare business

Smart Money on Pfizer?

Seeking Alpha highlights what leading hedge funds are doing with Pfizer. Some…

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Health Care Buzz Today

Reform, Pay Cuts to Widen Gap Between Rich and Poor Hospitals. Analysts…

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FDA Approves Roche (Genentech) Skin Cancer Drug–Zelboraf

Cancer drugs certainly are not cheap and for a year, this one…

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Why Profit Is Our Best Friend

One reason why entrepreneurs do what they do is that they want…

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NanoViricides Reports Positive Anti-viral Effect of HIV Drug

NanoViricides (OTCBB:NNVC) announced Monday that its anti-HIV drug candidate, HIVCide, achieved a…

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Pharma Companies Closing Down Facebook Sites

The main reason of course here is for the chat and discussion…

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Spine Surgery is an Exception to the Usual Country Market Rules

A great many markets for medical technologies have similar market drivers, economics,…

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Partners Health Care acquiring Neighborhood Health Plan: The 800-Pound Gorilla and the Fig Leaf?

 Partners Health Care (the dominant provider network in Greater Boston) and Neighborhood…

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Ethicist’s Take on Concierge Medicine is a Misdiagnosis

Arthur Caplan, a leading bioethicist at the University of Pennsylvania, published a…

Thomas Pane Thomas Pane

How Much do Financial Incentives Matter to Physicians?

In this experiment, medical students were paid under fee-for-service and capitated payment…

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