The Chicago Innovation Exchange announced that they are accepting applications for both the Membership and Business Incubator programs.
Chicago Innovation Exchange Membership is for individual students, faculty, staff, and community members with passions for entrepreneurship and innovation, developing businesses, or looking to join an entrepreneurial team.
Occasionally a transformative technology comes along that catalyzes a new wave of innovation. The most transformative of which was the internet and the personal computer. Hoping to join that list is 3D printing.
(Reuters) – Swiss drugmaker Novartis AG does not expect copycat versions of biotech drugs to play an important role in the healthcare system for another three to five years, its chief executive said on Monday.
The logic behind the Sunshine Act says that providing clarity on any money that pharma and device makers pay to doctors and hospitals will reduce the occurrence or appearance of corruption. .
The idea is that by making those payments a matter of public record makes it undesirable for companies to try to influence medical experts.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has picked up the pace on novel medical device approvals, but this year still may not hit levels seen in 2011 and 2012. During the first six months of 2014, the agency granted 17 premarket approvals, way up from 23 for the entirety of 2013.
Last Friday at the iBIO BBQ, Warren Ribley, Executive Director and John Collins, Medical Science Program Director of the Illinois Medical District were joined by other members of the community for the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge.
The first FDA clearance for the detection of a serious heart condition via a mobile ECG was announced yesterday. AliveCor got the nod for the AF Detector algorithm to detect atrial fibrillation (a warning sign of stroke and heart failure), and next month it plans to incorporate the new ability into its AliveCor smartphone plug-in and app for monitoring the heart.
