A review of life science current events reported by MedCity News this week:Klout’s top social media influencers in medicine. We created Klout’s list of the Top 10 social media influencers in medicine after last week’s top KLout healthcare influencers. What’s the difference between that and healthcare? At first glance, the medicine list includes almost exclusively [...]

Every week, MedCity News highlights the best of its MedCitizens: syndication partners and MedCity News readers who discuss life science current events on MedCityNews.com.Now here’s the best of what YOU had to say:AdvertisementWill Mitt Romney fight healthcare fraud? “There’s a lot more than character at stake when it comes to making false promises or false [...]

There’s been an impressive amount of healthcare social media coming from the 2012 JP Morgan Healthcare Conference (impressive because, unlike their tech brethren, healthcare investors haven’t taken to social media). The best tidbits are always things overheard in the halls rather than at keynotes. And BioWorld Today has captured some perfect, irony-tinged insight:Eager consultant overheard [...]

Canaan Partners has announced a new $600 million fund of which one-third will be dedicated to medical device, biopharmaceuticals and diagnostics investing.About a quarter of the investments will likely be outside the United States, primarily Israel and India. Most of the investments will be in early and seed-stage companies.var page_count = “off”; [...]

I purged one phrase from my vocabulary this year: new media (I now start with “digital”). What’s so new about 10-year-old blogs?Now I’m nixing another phrase and you should, too. The term is mobile health. Let’s always call the medical revolution digital health, dump the mobile and keep moving forward.We’re days away from the Consumer Electronics Show and its accompanying Digital Health Summit. So it’s the perfect time to build consensus.Digital is all encompassing: from big data to apps to electronic medical records to whatever comes next.Digital health is not tied to platforms. Mobile health, however, is a phrase you associate primarily with phones and tablets. But soon won’t

Uromedica, which develops urinary incontinence treatments, will find out in as soon as a few weeks if its medical device for men is ready for U.S. Food and Drug Administration approval application.The Minnesota medical device company submitted fresh data to the FDA that, if accepted, would be the basis for a premarket approval (PMA) application, CEO Tim Cook said. Uromedica sent the data, which included a clinical analysis of more than 120 men, to the FDA in November. The company hopes to hear back from the agency by the end of January.

That’s Sir Andrew Witty to you.The CEO of GlaxoSmithKline (NYSE:GSK) was knighted on Dec. 31 for “services to the economy and to the UK pharmaceutical industry.” The honor, among other things, comes with the title of “Sir.”This year’s list isn’t without its controversial figures — it included a dodgy hedge-fund tycoon and political donor. It [...]

Current medical news and unique business news for anyone who cares about healthcare.Meet Teva’s Jeremy Levin. The former Bristol-Meyers Squibb and Novartis executive will take over the company in May 2012 when Shlomo Yanai retires. The switch means the company will go from an ex-general with no pharma experience to someone better able to integrate [...]

Healthcare doesn’t do “memes” — at least not as much as the tech industry does.But 2011 showed that is changing. Amid the tidal wave-sized trends like healthcare reform, innovation in the life sciences and healthcare has started to take to the web. Now more than ever, concepts that will change healthcare forever were starting not [...]

Benjamin Spock died in 1998 and soon after that, his famous book has had one co-author: Dr. Robert Needlman.Needlman is a pediatrician at MetroHealth Medical Center and associate professor of pediatrics at Case Western Reserve University. He’s also a graduate of Yale Medical School and worked at Boston City Hospital. He’d been part of a [...]