DEARBORN - Wayne State University School of Medicine and Oakwood Healthcare System surgeons successfully implanted a new device designed to combat congestive heart failure in a 49-year-old patient that has ushered in a new tool to combat a condition that kills 300,000 Americans annually. The April 1 surgery took place at Oakwood Hospital & Medical
LANSING - Moving closer to action on a series of bills that would revise Michigan's individual health insurance market - as well as allow Blue Cross/Blue Shield of Michigan to acquire other companies - Senate substitutes for the bills are expected to be unveiled this week. No voting is expected this week on the versions
ANN ARBOR - NanoBio Corporation reported top-level findings Monday from its phase 2b study of NB-001, a topical lotion to treat herpes labialis (cold sores). The randomized, double-blind, vehicle- controlled study met its primary and secondary endpoints by demonstrating clear efficacy and safety in 482 patients. NanoBio's lotion resulted in faster healing of cold sores,
CLEVELAND ? A new study by an Ohio bioscience development organization shows Illinois is the top state in the Midwest in medical device companies, with Ohio second and Michigan ranked fourth. Using FDA registration records, BioEnterprise reported 966 companies in Illinois have registered with the FDA for medical devices. Registered medical device companies include both
ROCHESTER ? Michigan Senator Carl Levin will be a guest speaker at Oakland University's Midwest Conference on Stem Cell Biology and Therapy May 9?11 at Meadow Brook Hall. The conference also will bring together scientists and clinicians from across the globe to share the latest advancements in stem cell research. The conference will address the
ALLEGAN - Perrigo Company reported Monday it has received final approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to manufacture a generic brand of Olux Foam, a topical corticosteroid for treatment of dermatosis of the scalp. Before that happens, however, Perrigo must await a decision later this month on a patent infringement lawsuit filed in
DETROIT - Compuware Corporation has entered into an agreement to work with Microsoft HealthVault, Microsoft's personal health technology platform. Covisint will provide physicians with better, more efficient and secure access to patients' records by enabling patients to grant provider access to their HealthVault records through Covisint's OnDemand platform. HealthVault is a software and services health
GRAND RAPIDS - Researchers at Van Andel Research Institute have slowed the growth of human tumors growing in a mouse model of a common form of kidney cancer by using lethal toxin, which causes anthrax. LEPIMAT blocks a specific signaling pathway in tumor cells that is required for tumor growth. VARI researchers have previously shown
ANN ARBOR - MichBio, the Michigan life science trade association, will host Joseph Papa, chairman and chief executive officer of Perrigo Company, as the keynote speaker for its April 22 Annual Meeting in Ann Arbor. Papa's topic will be Meeting the World's Growing Need for Quality, Affordable Healthcare Products. Perrigo, based in Allegan, is a
KALAMAZOO - Training programs in three health-care fields in need of quality technicians will begin in March at Kalamazoo Valley Community College?s Arcadia Commons Campus. Registration deadlines are in March. The non-credit courses will prepare those with at least a high school diploma or GED equivalent for employment as a medical billing-and-coding professional, a phlebotomy