Rene Letourneau
Healthcare added 17,000 jobs to the nation's economy in August, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today.
As healthcare providers grapple with the challenge of attracting and retaining patients, one thing has become increasingly clear: It's about location, location, location.
Global medical device company St. Jude Medical, Inc. announced last week that the realignment of its product divisions will result in the loss of 300 jobs.
Margaret Clapp, RPh, chief of pharmacy at Boston-based Partners HealthCare spoke recently with Healthcare Finance News Editor Rene Letourneau about the biggest challenges currently facing the pharmacy.
Janssen Pharmaceuticals, Inc., and its parent company Johnson & Johnson agreed Thursday to a multi-state settlement to resolve charges of improper marketing and advertising of the anti-psychotic drugs Risperdal and Invega. The company will pay $181 million to 36 states and the District of Columbia.
The global radiology systems market has an estimated value of $9.7 billion in 2012 and is expected to reach $13.3 billion by 2018, according to a new report from Transparency Market Research.
Venture capital (VC) funding in the life sciences sector, which includes the biotechnology and medical device industries, decreased 39 percent in dollars and 22 percent in number of deals in Q2 2012 compared with Q2 2011, according to PricewatershouseCoopers' recent MoneyTree report. Many industry analysts think this downward trend is likely to continue.
Healthcare employees have a decreased confidence in the U.S. economy as a whole but feel optimistic about their personal employment prospects, according to the recently released Randstad Healthcare Employee Confidence Index.
The electrical and magnetic neurostimulation technologies market reached $16.3 billion in 2011 and is expected to grow moderately during the next few years, according to a recent report from life sciences research publisher Kalorama Information.
Overall U.S. healthcare prices increased slightly from June to July 2012, rising 0.2 percent, according to the federal Bureau of Labor Statistics.