Heat Biologics, already in phase 2 clinical trials with an experimental treatment for nonsmall cell lung cancer, is readying to study its immunotherapy technology in additional cancers.The Chapel Hill, North Carolina company is more than halfway through a $4.1 million fundraising round to help that effort. Securities filings show that Heat Biologics has raised $2.8 [...]

Mayo Clinic procurement technician David Hines and cardiovascular surgeon Dr. Louis Bonilla were doing what they do every day — procuring an organ to save a patient’s life — when they lost their own lives in an early morning helicopter crash on Monday, says one colleague in tribute videos posted on the hospital’s blog.Because the [...]

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has charged GlaxoSmithKline (NYSE:GSK) subsidiary Stiefel Laboratories with defrauding its shareholders of more than $110 million in an alleged stock scheme that started before the firm’s 2009 $2.9 billion acquisition by GSK.The complaint, filed today in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida, claims that family owned [...]

A patent dispute involving three makers of new innovative medical devices – Bovie Medical, Salient Surgical and Medtronic – has forced Bovie to pull its Seer and Boss monopolar and bipolar saline-enhanced radio-frequency devices off the market to settle the dispute.

Among today’s current medical news, the head of Eli Lilly’s neuroscience research has resigned. No reason was given but his departure follows several setbacks in the company’s research of new Alzheimer’s disease drugs.

The Research Triangle Park Foundation‘s top executive, Rick Weddle, is leaving to lead an economic development group in Orlando, Florida.The Metro Orlando Economic Development Commission on Tuesday announced that Weddle, president and CEO of the RTP Foundation, will be the Florida group’s new president and CEO. The RTP Foundation is the organization that manages and [...]

As mobile health gains more prominence and critical mass, it’s no surprise that the topic will merit increased attention at the health information technology industry’s premier gathering, the annual Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) conference. One HIMSS session sure to be of interest to attendees who want to learn more about mobile health is scheduled for Monday morning and will be co-hosted by Brian Dolan, editor of MobiHealthNews.

Mayo Clinic said Tuesday it will adopt proton beam technology — which can better deliver radiation to cancer cells without harming normal cells — at its three main campuses in Rochester, Minnesota; Phoenix, Arizona; and Jacksonville, Florida; at a cost of $360 million.

(viaWhite Coat andKevin MD)I was incredulous to read about thecase of the EMT service sued for negligence for transporting a pregnant woman to a tertiary care center in Florida. The woman went into laborin the ambulance and the heroic paramedics had to deliver a breeched 25 week-old baby and then resuscitate him en route to [...]

Malcolm Leissring and his team of researchers at the Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville, Fla. are partying like it’s 1955.Using work developed by scientists more than five decades ago, Leissring, an assistant professor of molecular neuroscience, has identified a way to prevent an insulin-chewing enzyme from breaking down the hormone needed to remove sugar from the [...]