With the opening of its California Innovation Center based in Menlo Park earlier this month, the New Brunswick, N.J.-based company has established regional innovation centers, incubators, and entrepreneurs in residence to get J&J closer to early stage products that might be licensed or acquired by the health-care giant

The country lately has struggled to bring its regulatory procedures in line with the rest of the industrialized world, and sweeping health care reforms have benefited 90 percent of the citizenry with health care

The increased activity against biotechnology firms coincided with the inclusion of pharmaceuticals and health care as strategic growth industries in China's 12th Five Year Plan (FYP), that covers 2011-2015

In Russia, Frost & Sullivan said, the regulatory framework for the health care sector is "incoherent," with a registration process that takes up to three years...In India, the private sector provides 70 percent to 75 percent of health care in the country, with the rest provided by government, and the urban/rural divide is high, so that most private health care targets only the tier one cities

Initially they will have a sales force of 200 reps that will initially target specialists such as endos and cardios," Arena's chief scientific officer Dominic Behan told investors at Deutsche Bank dbAccess Health Care Conference about Eisai's plans

The increased activity against biotechnology firms coincided with the inclusion of pharmaceuticals and health care as strategic growth industries in China's 12th Five Year Plan (FYP), that covers 2011-2015

I am absolutely convinced health care cannot be reformed," Munos said

On the health care side, Van Hauwermeiren said the region needs more dedicated local VC funds that can lead investment rounds

The new deals, if they are voted through by shareholders, would give Elan commercial footholds in Central and Eastern Europe and in the Middle East, respectively. (See BioWorld Today, May 21, 2013.) These emerging markets are becoming very attractive because of rapidly growing and aging populations in these countries, an increasing prevalence of chronic diseases and a burgeoning middle class requiring quality and accessible health care

Celsion Corp., of Lawrenceville, N.J., will receive an aggregate of $9.83 million from investors in exchange for common stock in an at-the-market registered direct offering by a dedicated health care fund

I am absolutely convinced health care cannot be reformed," Munos said

As part of an SEC filing, and during a slide show at the Deutsche Bank dbAccess Health Care Conference in Boston, Biogen made public the delay of the launch until the second half of this year, saying the firm wants to make "regulatory data protection clearer to all parties

GVHD is a serious disease with no effective cure, added Ophir Shahaf, Hadasit's CEO and chairman of Enlivex, adding that the orphan disease has wider implications for the health care system

The new deals, if they are voted through by shareholders, would give Elan commercial footholds in Central and Eastern Europe and in the Middle East, respectively. (See BioWorld Today, May 21, 2013.) These emerging markets are becoming very attractive because of rapidly growing and aging populations in these countries, an increasing prevalence of chronic diseases and a burgeoning middle class requiring quality and accessible health care

By Mari Serebrov Washington Editor Revamping Medicare Part D, for some people, would be the health care equivalent of remaking Gone with the Wind

It now is calling time and has signed heads of agreement for a reverse merger with a health care company

The move marks the further maturation of BTG as a medium-sized diversified health care business and a further shift away from its roots as an IP management and out-licensing specialist...The two transactions also could be construed as further evidence that health care investment in Europe is moving away from biotechnology and into lower-risk areas

It now is calling time and has signed heads of agreement for a reverse merger with a health care company

Revamping Medicare Part D, for some people, would be the health care equivalent of remaking Gone with the Wind