After announcing plans to move to New Jersey in November, multispecialty health care company Allergan Inc. has signed a lease to open a 93,000-square-foot research and development facility in Bridgewater — creating several hundred jobs and injecting about $12 million in private investment into the state's economy...

The American Academy of Pediatricians has long held that physicians should screen every child for developmental delays, but researchers from Children's Specialized Hospital realized no one had studied if the people who see children in underserved communities every day — preschool teachers — were able to also effectively...

At a life sciences human resources conference this morning in East Brunswick, the speakers of one breakout session asked audience members to introduce themselves and explain their interest in the session.

Two Democratic lawmakers came out in defense of the New Jersey Health Benefit Exchange Act today, touting it as a business-friendly measure one day after Gov. Chris Christie vetoed the bill because of uncertainty over federal reform efforts.

A proposed rule by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services would give states more than $11 billion in new funds to boost payments to primary care physicians serving Medicaid patients, but a New Jersey health care expert said it's not clear if the money will end up in the hands of the state's doctors.

The state's largest employer supported Gov. Chris Christie's veto of the New Jersey Health Benefit Exchange Act, as the New Jersey Business & Industry Association said the bill would be costly and limit options for small businesses.

While more than 95,000 small employers in New Jersey are eligible to receive a tax credit from the Affordable Care Act to offset the cost of their workers' health insurance, according to a report, an employment expert said the credit will not increase small businesses' participation in providing insurance.

The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics has projected employment growth of 26 percent among registered nurses between 2010 and 2020 — a growth of nearly 712,000 jobs — and employment reports from the state Department of Labor show the industry has been growing since 1990.

To drive a face-to-face relationship between health insurers and consumers, Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey will open the state's first health insurance retail store this summer in Moorestown.