Pharma entrepreneur Shkreli sells KaloBios stake | USA Today
Martin Shkreli has liquidated his stake in KaloBios Pharmaceuticals (KBIO) as the company and the controversial drug industry entrepreneur cut ties nine months after he led investors who gained control of the California-based firm.
Utica hospital nurses drop strike threat | Syracuse.com
St. Elizabeth Medical Center and the union representing its nurses have reached a tentative contract agreement, fending off a threatened Sept. 1 strike by the nurses.
Wanted: Someone to run the New Jersey's largest hospital | NJ.com
Bergen County, N.J., needs someone new to run the state's largest hospital, Bergen Regional Medical Center, and on Monday it took steps to figure out who that would be.
Former Sanford executive got $1.3 million severance deal | Inforum.com
The former head of the Sanford Medical Center here received more than $1.3 million in compensation under a buyout of the remainder of his contract when he was replaced.
Why a Jacksonville company is making the data it collects available to its customers | Jacksonville (Fla.) Business Journal
As an inventory management tool for the medical device industry, iTraycer collects a lot of data. Now, the creator of iTraycer, Medical Tracking Solutions, is looking to present that data so its customers can learn about their inventory and how it's being moved.
Teen triumphs over infection from brain-infecting amoeba | National Public Radio
Sebastian DeLeon, age 16, is only the fourth person in the U.S. to survive an infection from Naegleria fowleri, which state health experts think he contracted from swimming in unsanitary water on private property in Florida. The infections are extremely rare but almost always fatal. Doctors' insistence on a spinal tap proved essential.
Judge declines to block California school vaccination law | Reuters
A lawsuit by parents and health and education-related nonprofits challenged a state law tightening vaccination requirements for schoolchildren. It eliminates the so-called personal beliefs and religious exemptions, meaning that only children with a valid medical excuse can forgo vaccinations for such childhood diseases as measles and polio.
Piedmont and UnitedHealthcare renew contract agreement | Atlanta Journal-Constitution
After two months of conflict, Piedmont Healthcare and UnitedHealthcare have signed a three-year pact that will keep all of Piedmont's hospitals and physicians in UnitedHealthcare's network. Piedmont and UnitedHealth have been in dispute since their contract expired June 30, placing most of Piedmont's patients out of UnitedHealthcare's network.
Former Oregon State Hospital employee seeks $900k in lawsuit | (Salem, Ore.) Statesman Journal
A lawsuit filed last week by former Oregon State Hospital employee Larry Pressnall accuses the hospital, its superintendent and two state agencies of wage theft, retaliation and discrimination.
To help cancer patients, lawmakers pushed access to a controversial doctor | Stat
The call to Congressman Ted Yoho's office was a matter of life and death: A constituent was seeking help for a 5-year-old great-nephew who was suffering from a terrible brain tumor. Could the Florida Republican push the Food and Drug Administration to give the boy access to an unapproved drug treatment that the caller had heard would help?
