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Health Care

Apr 1, 2013

Meadowlands spokesman defends company’s turnaround of troubled hospital

A spokesman for Meadowlands Hospital and Medical Center said focusing on financial bureaucracy, and not patient outcomes, is part of a campaign to ignore the hospital’s “record of turning around a hospital with a sorry legacy to one that has had a storied turnaround by any measurement.”

Apr 1, 2013

Derma Sciences announces rights agreement with Korean company

Derma Sciences Inc., a medical device and pharmaceutical company focused on advanced wound care, announced today it has signed a long-term exclusive global rights agreement with New Cast Industries Co. Ltd., of Korea.

Apr 1, 2013

Actavis seeks approval for generic AndroGel product

Generic drug developer Actavis Inc., of Parsippany, today announced it has filed an abbreviated new drug application with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration seeking approval to market a generic version of AbbVie Inc.'s AndroGel.

Mar 28, 2013

4.5M tax lien, property sale raise eyebrows among union, lawmakers

Concerns about the financial stability of Meadowlands Hospital and Medical Center are again being raised by lawmakers and the nursing union at the hospital.

Mar 28, 2013

Companies partner to offer mobile health communication

Assurance Wireless, of Warren, a federal lifeline assistance program for wireless phone service, on Wednesday announced a partnership with Gold Mobile, a mobile health care solutions provider in Clark, to deliver services to improve provider/patient communication.

Mar 27, 2013

More than 600K in N.J. will qualify for health insurance tax credits, report says

More than 610,000 low- and middle-income New Jersey residents will be eligible in 2014 for new health insurance premium tax credits to help them pay for health coverage, according to a report released today by Families USA.

Mar 27, 2013

New emergency department welcomes first patients in Newark

Beginning at 7 a.m. today, the patients and staff at St. Michael’s Medical Center in Newark had more space than usual to begin the healing process.

Mar 27, 2013

BD gets approval for generic injectable drugs

Franklin Lakes-based medical technology company BD announced today the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved its first drug to be offered in the just-launched BD Simplist line of prefilled generic injectables.

Mar 25, 2013

TCNJ’s interim provost headed to Oregon

New Jersey's loss is Oregon's gain. Susan Bakewell-Sachs has announced she will step down in June from her roles as director of the New Jersey Nursing Initiative and interim provost of The College of New Jersey to become dean of nursing at the Oregon Health and Science University, in Portland.

Mar 25, 2013

Cantel Medical acquires Siemens business unit

Little Falls-based Cantel Medical Corp., through a subsidiary, announced today the acquisition of the hemodialysis water business from Siemens’ Water Technologies.

Mar 25, 2013

Actavis announces settlement with AstraZeneca over generic drug

Specialty pharmaceutical company Actavis Inc., of Parsippany, announced today it has reached a settlement agreement with AstraZeneca resolving outstanding patent litigation.

Mar 25, 2013

In New Jersey, running a kids’ hospital is no child’s play

The geographically tiny state of New Jersey is home to one of the highest concentrations of children's hospitals in the nation, which means executives are constantly thinking about how to draw in patients and stand out in a crowded market.