ANN ARBOR - Ten years from now, Americans born in 1960 will be able to start collecting their full Social Security retirement check, at the age of 67. That's two years later than their parents, because of a change in the federal retirement age enacted in 1983. But a new study shows that today's pre-retirement
GRAND RAPIDS - The monthly Health Forum of West Michigan series begins its new year with a panel discussion that focuses on the supply and demand of health care jobs, and how area higher education institutions are working to meet the needs of industry employers and employees. "The Health Care Talent Pipeline" is set for
ANN ARBOR - A technology that can print pure, ultra-precise doses of drugs onto a wide variety of surfaces could one day enable on-site printing of custom-dosed medications at pharmacies, hospitals and other locations. The technique, which was developed at the University of Michigan, can print multiple medications into a single dose on a dissolvable
ROYAL OAK - Check out this cool Tech248 member company MatchRX a private web-based inter-pharmacy marketplace to buy and sell small quantities of non-controlled, non-expired overstocked prescription drugs and drugs in short supply to satisfy a specific patient need or declared public health emergency. Tech248 Co-Found Irene Spanos interviews CEO John Kello. MatchRX maintains safe,
GRAND RAPIDS – Representatives from Great Lakes Health Connect and Making Choices Michigan have announced the integration of their day-to-day operations. MCM will maintain its existing brand and governing board of directors, but will function as a wholly owned subsidiary of GLHC. Doug Dietzman, Executive Director of GLHC, will add leadership responsibility for MCM to
ANN ARBOR - Inspired by the Labyrinth of Greek mythology, a new chip etched with fluid channels sends blood samples through a hydrodynamic maze to separate out rare circulating cancer cells into a relatively clean stream for analysis. It is already in use in a breast cancer clinical trial. Tumor cells isolated from blood samples
GRAND RAPIDS — The new Grand Rapids Research Center opens this week, anchoring the western end of the city’s Medical Mile cluster of education, health care and research institutions and elevating Michigan State University’s role in biomedicine. The $88.1 million facility initially will house 18 research teams that will relocate from the nearby Van Andel Research Institute. The
ANN ARBOR - The University of Michigan is partnering on an ambitious $20 million project to grow new heart tissue for cardiac patients. The new research center has been awarded to Boston University, with strong partnership from U-M and Florida International University. "A heart attack creates scar tissue, and the heart never returns to full
ANN ARBOR – Hygieia, a digital insulin enhancement company, announced that it has signed a distribution agreement with Spirit Healthcare, Ltd. to expand accessibility to the d-Nav Insulin Guidance Service across the United Kingdom. Under the agreement, Spirit will license and become a local distributor of the d-Nav Service and other tools developed by Hygieia
ANN ARBOR - Cancer cells obtained from a blood test may be able to predict how early-stage lung cancer patients will fare, a team from the University of Michigan has shown. This information could be used to determine which patients are most likely to benefit from additional therapies to head off the spread of the
