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Synthetic Biologics prices underwritten public offering of common stock at $1.00 per share

Synthetic Biologics, Inc., a developer of product candidates focused on the prevention and treatment of serious infectious and other diseases, announced today the pricing of an underwritten public offering of 11,500,000 shares of common stock at a public offering price of $1.00 per share.

12 Dec 2013

Despite a slight improvement in public opinion, health law continues to take a toll on Obama's approval ratings

New polls indicate that, even as the Obama administration hustles to fix healthcare.gov's troubles, the overhaul appears to be a drag on Americans' confidence in President Barack Obama.

12 Dec 2013

100K sign up for coverage through insurance exchange in N.Y., but problems elsewhere persist

More than 100,000 people in New York have signed up for coverage on the health insurance exchange -- most in private plans.

12 Dec 2013

Sebelius orders probe of botched website rollout

As Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius headed to Capitol Hill to testify, she announced several steps to address the healthcare.gov disaster, including asking the department's inspector general to review the management decisions behind the rollout and pledging to implement his recommendations.

12 Dec 2013

Filling in the big picture: Enrollment numbers and goals

News outlets examine the goals, numbers and challenges that continue to surround efforts to enroll new beneficiaries in health coverage either through the health law's new insurance marketplaces or Medicaid.

12 Dec 2013

Enrollment in federal and state health marketplaces rises to 365,000

The figures announced by federal officials show a sharp rise in the number of people signing up for insurance in November.

11 Dec 2013

Results-Based Financing for Health can get 20% more health care with same funds

Countries and major donors are changing the way they finance maternal and child, malaria, tuberculosis and HIV/AIDS health programs in low-income countries to increase their impact.

11 Dec 2013

New AquaLyse ionization technology prevents legionella and related disease outbreaks

With growing reports of Legionella and related Legionnaires' disease outbreaks in the USA, Canada and around the world, ProCare Water Treatment Inc. today announces its newest "AquaLyse® ICR-820" medical and commercial grade copper-silver ionization chamber cells.

11 Dec 2013

Viewpoints: Health law problems plague Calif. too; Obamacare redistribution is from lucky to unlucky; FDA crackdown on genetic testing

While politicians in Washington are hailing California's exchange as proof of the law's success, voters in California don't seem to agree - and it's not hard to understand why. Policies for about 900,000 Californians are being cancelled because they don't meet the law's benefit mandates.

11 Dec 2013

Oregon Gov. Kitzhaber to seek 4th term; health care will likely be a campaign issue

John Kitzhaber announced he intends to seek an unprecedented fourth term. In the background, his state continues to experience difficulties with Cover Oregon, the state's online insurance marketplace.

11 Dec 2013

HealthCare.gov 'vastly improved,' but back-end problems persist

A little over a week after the deadline that President Barack Obama gave for fixing the federal health care exchange, the system serving 36 states is far more user friendly, according to consumers and navigators.

11 Dec 2013

LEC announces consolidated financial results for Q2 2014

Lignol Energy Corporation ("LEC" or "the Company"), a leading technology company in the advanced biofuels and renewable chemicals sector, today announced its unaudited consolidated financial results for the three months and six months ended October 31, 2013 (all figures in Canadian dollars, unless otherwise noted).

11 Dec 2013

Nanostring Technologies announces nationwide availability of Prosigna Breast Cancer Assay in 2014

NanoString Technologies, Inc., a provider of life science tools for translational research and molecular diagnostic products, today announced nationwide availability of the Prosigna™ Breast Cancer Prognostic Gene Signature Assay beginning in the first quarter of 2014.

From NanoString Technologies 11 Dec 2013

Simplicity, testing, keys to why some state-run exchanges work

Stateline explores why some insurance exchanges function well and others -- including the one operated by the federal government -- are struggling. Meanwhile, California Democrats say a lookalike GOP health insurance website is confusing consumers and Maryland faces a self-imposed mid-December deadline to repair its site.

11 Dec 2013

Democrats press N.C. to expand Medicaid; Ohio launches Medicaid signup site

The White House asks two top North Carolina Democrats to urge Gov. Pat McCrory and state lawmakers to reconsider a health law provision to cover more low income people. Meanwhile, Ohio reports that more than 1,100 residents signed up for Medicaid on the first day a signup site went live.

10 Dec 2013

Tips to relieve dry skin

Dry skin is a common problem during the winter and its effects can be painful - causing the skin to flake, itch, crack and even bleed. Yet dermatologists say there are ways people can find relief by implementing a few changes to their daily lives.

10 Dec 2013

Biosimulation and epilepsy treatments: an interview with Dr. Serge Bischoff, CEO of Rhenovia and RHENEPI program director

The need for biosimulation is primarily to do with the very high attrition rate in drug development and especially in the development of drugs for the central nervous system.

10 Dec 2013

First Edition: December 10, 2103

Today's early morning highlights from the major news organizations, including reports about how health law advocates are developing new messaging strategies.

10 Dec 2013

ACoS Commission on Cancer, PHCQA partner to make PA cancer quality data available to public

The American College of Surgeons Commission on Cancer has joined with the Pennsylvania Health Care Quality Alliance to make cancer quality data from participating Pennsylvania hospitals available to the public. The initiative, which is the first of its kind in the U.S., will include data from 72 percent (52 programs) of all CoC-accredited cancer programs in Pennsylvania.

10 Dec 2013

Viewpoints: Optimism about Obamacare; 834 errors; can-you-keep-your-doctor debate

This was the week when liberals decided that it was safe to feel optimistic about Obamacare again. ... A worst-case scenario, in which the website remained unusable well into the new year, seems to have been averted, and with it the danger that insurers or Congressional Democrats would begin to bail on Obamacare entirely.

10 Dec 2013

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Synthetic Biologics prices underwritten public offering of common stock at $1.00 per share

Despite a slight improvement in public opinion, health law continues to take a toll on Obama's approval ratings

100K sign up for coverage through insurance exchange in N.Y., but problems elsewhere persist

Sebelius orders probe of botched website rollout

Filling in the big picture: Enrollment numbers and goals

Enrollment in federal and state health marketplaces rises to 365,000

Results-Based Financing for Health can get 20% more health care with same funds

New AquaLyse ionization technology prevents legionella and related disease outbreaks

Viewpoints: Health law problems plague Calif. too; Obamacare redistribution is from lucky to unlucky; FDA crackdown on genetic testing

Oregon Gov. Kitzhaber to seek 4th term; health care will likely be a campaign issue

HealthCare.gov 'vastly improved,' but back-end problems persist

LEC announces consolidated financial results for Q2 2014

Nanostring Technologies announces nationwide availability of Prosigna Breast Cancer Assay in 2014

Simplicity, testing, keys to why some state-run exchanges work

Democrats press N.C. to expand Medicaid; Ohio launches Medicaid signup site

Tips to relieve dry skin

Biosimulation and epilepsy treatments: an interview with Dr. Serge Bischoff, CEO of Rhenovia and RHENEPI program director

First Edition: December 10, 2103

ACoS Commission on Cancer, PHCQA partner to make PA cancer quality data available to public

Viewpoints: Optimism about Obamacare; 834 errors; can-you-keep-your-doctor debate

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