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When the New Year rolls around, Maryland hospitals will charge the same prices for the care they deliver as they did at the end of 2013, a state commission decided Wednesday.
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Read More »FDA: Avandia not risky medication
WASHINGTON — The Food and Drug Administration is lifting severe safety restrictions on the former blockbuster diabetes pill Avandia, citing recent data suggesting that the much-debated medication does not increase the risk of heart attack. The repeal means patients will ...
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Read More »New Md. company Nutroganics dreams of healthy growth
Nutroganics, a new Maryland company in health products, is working through a sequence of corporate calisthenics in pursuit of rapid growth.
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Read More »Hospitals test new care-delivery and payment models
As regulators await word from federal health officials about the state’s proposal to transform its hospital payment system to emphasize quality of care over quantity of services, some physicians and hospital executives aren’t waiting around.
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Read More »Baltimore biotech Gliknik, Pfizer sign accord
Gliknik Inc., of Baltimore, a biotech that develops novel molecular treatments for autoimmune/inflammatory diseases and cancer, said it has entered into an exclusive worldwide licensing agreement with drug-making giant Pfizer Inc. for its pharmaceutical candidate, GL-2045, a potential treatment for a variety of autoimmune diseases.
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Read More »UMB, MedImmune agree to collaborate
The University of Maryland, Baltimore and MedImmune Inc., of Gaithersburg, a subsidiary of British drug maker AstraZeneca PLC, announced they have entered into a five-year, $6 million agreement to work on novel bioscience research in Maryland.
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Read More »KinderMender uses IT, child-centric focus to differentiate itself, expand
Dr. Keyvon Rafei doesn’t like being taken by surprise. He doesn’t appreciate unexpected surges in patient volume. He doesn’t enjoy paying employees top dollar to monitor empty waiting rooms. He hates guessing which illnesses will plague his patients, which neighborhoods they live in or what they thought about their visit to KinderMender, the pediatric urgent care clinic he founded.
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Read More »House unveils bill to police specialty pharmacies
WASHINGTON — House lawmakers have introduced legislation that would bring more federal oversight to large specialty pharmacies like the one that triggered a deadly meningitis outbreak last year. The bill introduced late Thursday by Republicans and Democrats would subject large ...
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Read More »EAGB receives federal grant for biotech growth
A sizeable portion of a federal grant will go toward launching an intensive, 16-week accelerator program for health information technology entrepreneurs in Maryland.
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Read More »Early look at health law’s premiums
WASHINGTON — It’s the No. 1 question about President Barack Obama’s health care law: Will consumers be able to afford the coverage? Now the answer is coming in. The biggest study yet of premiums posted by states finds that the ...
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