A review of life science current events reported by MedCity News this week:Are more than 10 percent of doctors liars? Survey says ‘yes.’ About 11 percent of doctors have knowingly lied to a patient in the last year, according to a new survey published in Health Affairs.15 healthcare Twitter hashtags you should follow. We offer [...]

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Heart monitoring company CardioNet (NASDAQ:BEAT),which diagnoses and monitors irregular heartbeats, has acquired another cardiac monitoring company in a deal valued at more than $6 million.The acquisition target, Ohio-based ECG Scanning & Medical Services, will enable the Philadelphia, Pennsylvania-based company to expand its customer base across the Midwest, a company statement said.AdvertisementCardioNet President and Chief Executive [...]

One look at #healthpolicyvalentines will convince you that healthcare policy and Valentine’s Day emotions make for humorous (and slightly racy) bedfellows.Twitter user Emma Sandoe, a self-described health policy budgeteer, started it all when she tweeted: “I would competitively bid for you #healthpolicyvalentines last week. And since then a gush of tweets have emanated each competing [...]

Radisphere has landed a $10 million equity investment as the radiology company looks to expand its community hospital customer base.Radiology outsourcing groups like Cleveland-area Radisphere have become increasingly popular with investors in recent years. The trend is being driven largely by technology advances and healthcare cost pressures, which have combined to create a lucrative market [...]

Four new health technology companies covering areas from Big Data to telemedicine to therapeutics made their pitches to investors and media at the StartX demo day on Thursday.StartX is Stanford University’s nonprofit student startup accelerator, operated independently from the university. Its fifth class of startups from the fall of 2011 includes four new companies devoted [...]

MedSonics uses a handheld diagnostic ultrasound device to detect, monitor and chart bone abnormalities and fractures cheaply and more efficiently to determine whether the patient needs to be moved to a healthcare facility for an X-Ray or scan.

PPD routinely strikes strategic partnerships with pharmaceutical companies. But the clinical research organization has entered a different kind of partnership in Scotland with the goal of streamlining the clinical trials process and speeding the regulatory process for new therapies.Wilmington, North Carolina-based PPD has entered an alliance with the National Health Services’s Research Scotland (NRS), the [...]

You can’t read much about the venture capital industry before you start hearing about the so-called “valley of death” for early stage companies.Conventional wisdom holds that young companies enter that valley, in which attracting investment capital becomes extremely difficult, at an early stage, typically between an initial round of angel funding and the company’s first [...]

Cancerlife provides a social platform for cancer center patients to communicate with supporters such as friends, family, people who share their disease and physicians. It also includes a journal to document how they are feeling. But what sets Cancerlife apart from rivals, says president and co-founder Charles Coltman, is that patients can track the side effects they experience from their medications, allowing them to work with their physicians to better tailor the level and types of medication they take.