Coming up Space Startup Weekend
Source: Big News Network
Mountain View :: CA :: USA | updated 2013-05-13 08:38:52 -0700 | health-news
Space Startup Weekend A group of entrepreneurs and techies will gather at Hacker Dojo at the end of the month for a Startup Weekend that aims to launch a company targeted at the space industry. Here's a Startup Weekend where...
Obesity in India spurs surgery boom
Source: Arab News
Mountain View :: CA :: USA | updated 2013-05-11 15:07:30 -0700 | health-news
Sunday 12 May 2013 Last Update 12 May 2013 12:40 am In India, where one in six people are undernourished, an unlikely business is booming: Obesity surgery. As economic growth averaging more than 7 percent a year helped shrink the...
Teva and Alexza Announce Teva's License to Market ADASUVE® in the U.S.
Source: The Motley Fool
Mountain View :: CA :: USA | updated 2013-05-08 06:10:49 -0700 | health-news
Approximately 4 to 5 million patients with bipolar I disorder or schizophrenia in the U.S. experience and seek treatment for agitation episodes, stated Larry Downey, President, North America Specialty Medicines. This agreement reflects our business development strategy to pursue opportunities...
Commentary: Being stroke smart during Stroke Awareness Month
Source: San Jose Mercury News
Mountain View :: CA :: USA | updated 2013-05-06 14:31:41 -0700 | health-news
Every year, more than 790,000 Americans are affected by stroke, which is three times more frequent than the incidence of breast cancer. Stroke can affect anyone at any time; older adults, middle-age adults, children and even newborns are all susceptible,...
Channel Medsystems gets $9.7M names Ric Cote as CEO
Source: Big News Network
Mountain View :: CA :: USA | updated 2013-05-06 11:58:52 -0700 | health-news
Channel Medsystems gets $9.7M, names Ric Cote as CEO Dr. Dan Burnett, co-founder of Channel Medsystems, has handed the CEO reins to Ric Cote and announced $9.7 million in new funding. Channel Medsystems Inc. named Ric Cote as president and...
Coming up Nolan Bushnell
Source: Big News Network
Mountain View :: CA :: USA | updated 2013-05-02 14:47:30 -0700 | health-news
Nolan Bushnell Nolan Bushnell, the Silicon Valley entrepreneur who co-founded Atari, Chuck E. Cheese and recently published "Finding the Next Steve Jobs" is speaking at a Startup Grind event in Mountain View on May 14. A talk with Nolan Bushnell,...
The Funded Polaris Wireless
Source: Big News Network
Mountain View :: CA :: USA | updated 2013-04-26 06:28:56 -0700 | health-news
Polaris Wireless Polaris Wireless raised $10 million. Here are the latest fundings from Silicon Valley companies, announced or filed recently with the U.S...The Funded is a recurring feature where we post new fundings that cross our desks, as well as...
Sun-powered plane to make Bay Area test flight
Source: KSBY
Mountain View :: CA :: USA | updated 2013-04-20 02:10:17 -0700 | health-news
A solar-powered plane that has wowed aviation fans in Europe is set to take an early morning test flight over the San Francisco Bay area. Considered the world's most advanced sun-powered plane, the Solar Impulse is set to take off...
Coming up Building offline communities online
Source: Big News Network
Mountain View :: CA :: USA | updated 2013-04-16 09:34:11 -0700 | health-news
Building offline communities online TaskRabbit Marketplace manager Erika Murdock Balbuena is one of the featured speakers at this month's Community Hacks meetup in Mountain View. Much focus of social media is about building a strong online community.
Prototype: Watsi, a Crowdfunding Site, Offers Help With Medical Care
Source: International Herald Tribune
Mountain View :: CA :: USA | updated 2013-04-13 14:22:03 -0700 | health-news
Prototype Medical Care, Aided by the Crowd Jim Wilson/The New York Times Chase Adam, 26, a former Peace Corps volunteer, is the founder of Watsi. Published: April 13, 2013 TWO years ago, Chase Adam, a Peace Corps volunteer in Costa...
The Wild Story Behind A Promising Experimental Cancer Drug
Source: Forbes
Mountain View :: CA :: USA | updated 2013-04-05 20:59:02 -0700 | health-news
Ibrutinib's emergence as a promising oncology drug The Gleevec of CLL, as one oncologist described it to me is an almost absurdly improbable story embracing the Human Genome Project on the one hand, and Scientology on the other. A Most...
TheraVida inks drug licensing deal with South Korean company
Source: Big News Network
Mountain View :: CA :: USA | updated 2013-04-02 17:08:00 -0700 | health-news
The Mountain View company didn't give the value of the deal, but TheraVida will receive milestone payments and a royalty on any net sales in South Korea by SK Chemicals...Tolenix is a twice-a-day formulation of tolterodine and pilocarpine that is...
Small number of students skip vaccine
Source: Mountain View VOICE
Mountain View :: CA :: USA | updated 2011-12-07 02:45:00 -0800 | political-news
A small percentage of local students opted out of an all-but-mandatory whooping cough vaccination this year, school officials from both Mountain View districts said...State Assembly Bill 354, which was signed into law near the end of Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's last...
Largest Parkinson's Study Ever, Recruits by Email, Finds Novel Variants
Posted by: SGrose
Mountain View :: CA :: USA | updated 2012-11-02 07:03:18 -0700 | health-news
"Unlike traditional studies, participation in this study took place completely online, using a collection of cases recruited via PD mailing lists and controls derived from the customer base of the personal genetics company 23andMe." The GWAS is the largest Parkinson's...
Endometriosis: A Common Problem among Women of Reproductive Age
Posted by: wendyzachary
Mountain View :: CA :: USA | updated 2012-07-26 23:39:28 -0700 | health-news
Endometriosis is a disease that has affected 6 million women across the United States alone. It is a medical condition caused by hormonal changes that result in metrological cells to appear over the ovaries or outside the uterus. The disease...
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