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Coventry Health’s profit rises 3%

Coventry Health Care Inc. net income ticked nearly 3% higher in the first quarter, enabling the health insurer's shares to make gains.   The Bethesda, Md.-based company  reported a profit of $125 million, or 81 cents a share, up from...

Wright Medical shares jumped by 27%

Shares of Wright Medical Group Inc jumped by as much as 27 percent on  Friday, 25th April' 08 after the orthopedic device company posted better-than-expected quarterly results, prompting at least one broker upgrade. Leerink Swann raised its rating on...

Fisher and Paykel healthcare shares fall

Fisher and Paykel Healthcare have fallen nearly four per cent after the company cut its full-year operating profit forecast by 16 per cent, citing the strong New Zealand dollar. The breathing device specialist, which earns roughly 60 per cent...

Exelixis: Genentech exercises option to develop cancer drug

Exelixis Inc has announced that Genentech Inc  has exercised the option to further develop and market Exelixis' experimental cancer drug XL518, which is currently in an early stage trial. Exelixis Inc has announced that Genentech Inc  has exercised...

Growing Chinese healthcare market opportunities

Reports on the growing Chinese healthcare market opportunities, with focus on featured company, Benda Pharmaceutical Inc.The globalization and blending of western and traditional medicine is a growing trend, prevalent in China but also on the rise in North America....

Siemens ties up with National Jewish Medical and Research

With a shared vision of a more personalized medicine, Siemens Healthcare and National Jewish Medical and Research Center, based at Denver in US have formed a strategic alliance to improve and develop novel imaging and diagnostic technologies using genomics,...

Pricing and Reimbursement in Japan: Costly Healthcare System Inefficiencies Increase The Focus On

The government has relied on simple P&R tools to contain rising healthcare costs and provide a  reasonable level of healthcare. Introduction  The government has relied on simple P&R tools to contain rising healthcare costs and provide a   reasonable...

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