Medical
Athenahealth sale sealed for $5.5B
Elliott Management made its offer for $160 per share in cash after saying it had grown frustrated with athenahealth's struggles, which included missed guidance targets and churning through five chief financial officers in the last four years. [Full Article...]
America updates its physical activity guidelines, with one important change
Updated for the first time in 10 years, the guidelines add that those who now do very little physical activity have the most to gain by moving more. But just 26% of men, 19% of women and 20% of adolescents are meeting the standards, officials said, costing the United States health care system $117 billion each year and leading to about 10% of premature deaths. [Full Article...]
Wide differences in antibiotic use between countries
World Health Organization in the African Region, has made the fight against antibiotic resistance a top priority and is working with countries to develop and implement action plans to combat antibiotic resistance and generate reliable data for action. [Full Article...]
Death toll tops 200 in DR Congo Ebola outbreak
In its latest update, the health ministry said 291 cases had been confirmed and 201 deaths had been recorded. About half of the cases were in Beni, a city of 800,000 people, in the North Kivu region. Ebola is spread via small amounts of bodily fluid and infection often proves fatal. The current outbreak of Ebola, which began in July, is the 10th to hit the country since 1976. [Full Article...]
Rabies Death: Briton Dies After Contracting Disease On Holiday In Morocco
PHE said there is "no risk" to the wider public but as a precautionary measure, health workers and close contacts have been offered vaccination if necessary. Rabies can be dealt with very effectively if treated correctly and immediately; more information can be found on the HSPC website here. "It is hard to know from the information provided, the delay could have been Morocco, the delay could ... [Full Article...]
Rams to honor Thousand Oaks victims, planning ways to help community
When the Las Vegas gunman opened fire from a 32nd-floor hotel room, Kelly said he threw a friend to the ground before helping get her out of the area and into a room. Orfanos' mother had a simple request during a brief phone interview with The New York Times . In Las Vegas and Thousand Oaks, country music fans were the victims. [Full Article...]
Google taps Geisinger CEO David Feinberg for healthcare post; names interim chief
Jaewon Ryu, Geisinger's current chief medical officer, will serve as interim president and CEO at Geisinger. Dr. David Feinberg is stepping down as president and CEO of the healthcare company after almost four years. Earlier this year, Google's life science and healthcare division Verily teamed up with Gilead to develop a high-res molecular map of inflammatory diseases. [Full Article...]
New Hope For Celiac Treatment As Testing Continues For Nexvax2
In an earlier trial of Nexvax2 in a small group of people, researchers showed that the vaccine was safe and well-tolerated among patients with celiac disease. Nexvax2 is a "therapeutic" vaccine, which means that it's created to address an immune response that's already happening in the bodies of those with celiac disease, Beyond Celiac explains. [Full Article...]