Hospitals Merge To Protect Turf As CVS And Optum Move In

Hospitals Merge To Protect Turf As CVS And Optum Move In

CVS Health has confirmed they are buying Aetna, the health insurance company. This has brought up many discussions about other health groups and hospitals merging to keep their footing in the industry. There was over 5,000 independent community hospitals in the...
FDA Issues Draft Guidance on Gluten Labeling for Drugs

FDA Issues Draft Guidance on Gluten Labeling for Drugs

The FDA issued a draft guidance that encourages drugmakers to provide more detailed labeling about whether their products are made from ingredients that contain gluten. This comes from many questions and concerns about oral drugs containing wheat gluten or wheat...
Huntington’s disease: could a cancer drug hold the key?

Huntington’s disease: could a cancer drug hold the key?

Huntington’s disease is an inherited disorder that leads to the degeneration of certain nerve cells in the brain. There is currently no treatment or drugs to slow down the progression of the disease. Dr. Albert La Spada, director of the Duke Center for...

Optum to acquire DaVita Medical Group for approximately $4.9 billion

Optum, a leading health services company, and DaVita Medical Group, one of the nation’s leading independent medical groups are combining. DaVita Medical Group will join with Optum’s physician-led primary, specialty, in-home, urgent- and surgery-care delivery services...
FDA opens door to multiarm, multicompany clinical trials

FDA opens door to multiarm, multicompany clinical trials

One of the best things that can happen to clinical trials is to make the process smoother. That is exactly what the FDA is trying to do. They have outlined how developers of drugs targeting rare pediatric diseases to streamline their clinical development programs and...