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By Crain's Detroit News November 19, 2009 The Barbara Ann Karmanos Cancer Institute has, after 10 years of research, spun out a for-profit company to build and market a new breast cancer screening device. ... FULL STORY
By Crain's Pensions and Investments November 19, 2009 Bristol-Myers Squibb Co., New York, plans to contribute $7 million to its $4.1 billion U.S. defined benefit plans by the end of the year, according to its 10-Q filing. ... FULL STORY
By Crain's Business Insurance November 17, 2009 Workplace injury and illness data that the Occupational Safety and Health Administration collects from employers is inadequate, according to a Tuesday report by the Government Accountability Office. ... FULL STORY
By Crain's Business Insurance November 16, 2009 Consumer-driven health plans linked to health savings accounts remain the CDHP of choice, according to a survey released by Aon Consulting and the International Society of Certified Employee Benefit Specialists. ... FULL STORY
By Crain's Advertising Age November 13, 2009 The pharmaceutical industry and the FDA are in a strange position. People are discussing drugs and treatments all over net, from WebMD to the American Cancer Society's Cancer Survivors' Network. ... FULL STORY
By Crain's Advertising Age November 13, 2009 Those speaking during the second and final day of the FDA's public hearings regarding the promotion of regulated products on websites and social-media sites weren't nearly as enamored of the technology as those speaking on the first day. And they weren't inclined to give the pharmaceutical industry... ... FULL STORY
By Crain's Cleveland Business November 13, 2009 The Riverside Co., a private equity firm based in Cleveland and New York, has acquired Precision Wire Components of Oregon. ... FULL STORY
By Crain's Pensions & Investments November 03, 2009 David B. Wescoe was named executive administrative director of the Motion Picture Industry Pension and Health Plans, Studio City, Calif., effective Dec. 1, said Arlene Falk Withers, chief administrative and legal officer. ... FULL STORY
By Crain's Investment News November 03, 2009 With Congress advancing its controversial 1,900-page healthcare reform legislation, Wall Street has pushed health care sector stocks into value territory, according to Tyler Dann, co-manager of the $4.8 billion Aim Charter Fund CHTRX. ... FULL STORY
By Crain's Advertising Age November 03, 2009 The proposed health-care legislation that is so much the subject of debate stands to force changes not only for doctors and insurers but also for chain restaurant marketers: The House bill also contains a provision requiring that they post calorie information. ... FULL STORY
By Crain's Cleveland Business November 19, 2009 The Cleveland Clinic and the MetroHealth System jointly have created a trauma network in which they will share best medical practices and work together to make sure patients are transported to the right hospital for their care. ... FULL STORY
By Crain's Detroit Business November 19, 2009 Mercer’s National Survey of Employer-Sponsored Health Plans showed that total health benefit costs for Michigan businesses rose 5.3 percent in 2009, or an average of $10,050 per employee. ... FULL STORY
By Crain's New York November 18, 2009 Empire BlueCross BlueShield is reporting a sharp increase in small businesses terminating coverage that started around the first quarter of this year. ... FULL STORY
By Crain's Detroit Business November 13, 2009 While the Michigan Supreme Court today considers a competitor’s legal challenge, the State Administrative Board on Thursday approved two contracts worth $2.2 billion to Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan and Maryland-based Catalyst RX. ... FULL STORY
By Crain's Detroit Business November 11, 2009 The Michigan Court of Appeals Tuesday night dismissed a preliminary injunction approved last week by the Ingham County Court of Claims that blocked implementation of an $879 million contract to Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan. ... FULL STORY
By Crain's New York Business November 09, 2009 A little-noticed provision in the House of Representatives healthcare reform bill would make health coverage for New York children far more expensive. The House bill that was passed on Saturday repeals the Children's Health Insurance Program by 2013. All children in CHIP would move into insurance... ... FULL STORY
By Crain's New York Business November 05, 2009 With a special session for Albany lawmakers set for next week, the state's powerful hospital and health care union lobby is launching a radio campaign to fight Gov. David Paterson's proposed healthcare cuts. The governor's suggested cuts aim to help close a mid-year budget deficit ... FULL STORY
By Crain's Detroit Business November 04, 2009 Michigan Insurance Commissioner Ken Ross has scheduled a Nov. 23 public hearing to consider approval of Blue Care Network’s planned acquisition of competing insurer Lansing-based Physicians Health Plan of Mid-Michigan. ... FULL STORY
By Crain's Detroit Business November 03, 2009 Researchers at the University of Michigan are looking for strategies to help Michigan’s more than 250 safety-net providers meet the increasing demand of caring for the uninsured and other vulnerable people. ... FULL STORY
By Crain's Detroit Business November 03, 2009 The Western Michigan University Board of Trustees endorsed the university’s proposal for a new medical school. ... FULL STORY
By Crain's New York Business November 20, 2009 Under intense pressure to compete with cancer centers in other states, New York City hospitals say they are moving closer to forming a consortium that would bring a proton beam therapy center to Manhattan. The technology allows radiation to be emitted in precisely focused cancer-killing doses, but... ... FULL STORY
By Crain's Detroit Business November 19, 2009 A Detroit occupational therapist and a patient recruiter from Dearborn pled guilty in U.S. District Court in Detroit to participating in conspiracies to defraud the Medicare program, said Terry Berg, U.S. Attorney in Detroit, on Wednesday. ... FULL STORY
By Crain's Cleveland Business November 13, 2009 The Cleveland Clinic has received a gift of an undisclosed amount from the president of a publishing company in Long Island, N.Y. ... FULL STORY
By Crain's Detroit Business November 13, 2009 David Satcher, M.D., U.S. surgeon general from 1998-2002, has made a career out of advocating for the elimination of racial health disparities. ... FULL STORY
By Crain's Cleveland Business November 13, 2009 An investment group led by local entrepreneurs aims to turn a technology the Cleveland Clinic has been using to study its own patient records into a product that will help medical researchers sift through mountains of electronic data scattered across the globe. ... FULL STORY
By Crain,s Cleveland Business November 09, 2009 Community Health Partners in Lorain has created a partnership with Tri-City Family Medicine in which the hospital will employ the 19 doctors involved. ... FULL STORY
By Crain's Cleveland Business November 04, 2009 The Cleveland Clinic this Thursday, Nov. 5, will break ground on its $96 million Twinsburg Family Health & Surgery Center. ... FULL STORY
By Crain's Waste and Recycling News November 04, 2009 A New York City hospital has started up the first hospital-based co-generation plant in the city. ... FULL STORY
By Crain's Chicago Business October 30, 2009 Initiate Systems has acquired a software maker that will expand the Chicago-based software firm's presence in the healthcare market ... FULL STORY
By Crain's Cleveland Business October 30, 2009 The Cleveland Clinic has received a $2 million gift to create an endowed, chaired position in digestive disease research. ... FULL STORY
