Study: Cost key reason for unfilled prescriptions
ANN ARBOR — While 97 percent of Americans who received a prescription for medication in the last 90 days filled it, the most-cited reason among respondents who did not fill …
EnvisionTEC Previews High-Speed 3D Printer for Dental Market
DEARBORN — The 3D printer manufacturer EnvisionTec Friday plans to preview a new high-speed printer to joint the company’s Vida line for dental professionals. The unveiling will come at the …
Health Care Job Growth Plummets in January
ANN ARBOR — The United States health care industry added only 18,000 jobs in January 2017, the slowest monthly increase since January 2014, which marked the onset of the expanded …
Esperion Completes Enrollment In Trial Of Cholesterol-Buster
ANN ARBOR — Esperion Therapeutics Inc. (Nasdaq: ESPR) reported completing enrollment of a new Phase 3 study of about 2,000 patients testing its drug candidate bempedoic acid to treat high …
New Study Shows Health Information Disconnect
ANN ARBOR — A new study from Ann Arbor health consultants Altarum Institute and the New York-based health researcher Robert Wood Johnson Foundation finds that most vulnerable healthcare consumers struggle …
Tears Can Tell Your Nutrition: MTU Researcher
HOUGHTON — Would you rather give blood or tears? A Michigan Technological University researcher is lead author of a new paper on the potential use of tears instead of blood …
Altarum Acquires Healthcare Payment System Firm
ANN ARBOR — The Altarum Institute, a nonprofit supplying research and consulting to the healthcare industry, Tuesday announced that it had acquired another nonprofit, the Connecticut-based Health Care Incentives Improvement …
MichBio Conference and Expo Coming Jan. 18
ANN ARBOR — MichBio, the association for Michigan’s biosciences industry, will welcome hundreds of bioscience researchers, manufacturers, executives and service providers to its Conference and Expo Jan. 18 at the …
DMC Performs First Robot-Assisted Total Knee Procedures in Michigan
DETROIT — The Detroit Medical Center announced that two teams of DMC physicians performed the first-ever “MAKOplasty” robotic total knee replacement surgeries in the state of Michigan. The procedures took …
October Health Spending Up 5.5%
ANN ARBOR — National health spending in October 2016 grew at an annual rate of 5.5 percent, driven up by the hospital component, which grew 6.6 percent, according to the …