North Carolina clinical research organization Clinipace Worldwide is flexing its muscles abroad with an executive hire that boosts the CRO’s European operations.Dr. Jurgen Frisch has been named chief medical officer for Clinipace’s European operations. He will be based in the company’s offices in Zurich, Switzerland.var page_count = “off”; [...]

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie held forth at the New Jersey biotechnology association NJ Bio annual meeting last night on a range of topics from Snooki’s tweets about him to the recent return of his chief of staff Richard Bagger to the pharmaceutical industry.Bagger joined Celgene (NYSE:CELG) at the end of January in a newly [...]

AstraZeneca (NYSE:AZN) is cutting more than 7,300 jobs across its global operations as part of a restructuring move the pharmaceutical giant announced in its fourth-quarter earnings for 2012.A spokesman for the company confirmed the 7,300 in cuts spread over the next two years could impact some positions at its U.S. headquarters in Wilmington, Delaware.var page_count [...]

Even compared with other jobs in healthcare — an industry that made it through the heart of the recession rather gracefully — the job outlook for registered nurses is strong, with the number of jobs growing at an above-average rate.But nursing schools are slow to change, and in order to graduate successful nurses who are [...]

Healthcare is the economic engine of the United States: one of the few places that shows consistent job growth even in the face of global economic doldrums.But just because there are jobs doesn’t mean you would want them (no matter how much they pay). Healthcare reform, digital health and a global marketplace have thrown some [...]

A new survey shows that nurses are spending more time on indirect patient care activities like paperwork, traveling to supply rooms and entering medication orders than in the past.One of the consequences of nurses spending less time directly caring for patients is that more than half of the nurses surveyed said they weren’t satisfied with [...]

This month is MedCityNews.com’s 3rd birthday. Over three years, with your help, we’ve grown from a site focused on healthcare innovation in Cleveland to the leading online portal reporting nationally on innovation and business-to-business insight for leaders in the healthcare and the life sciences.Knowing what our readers need has been a key to our success. [...]

A New Zealand bladder cancer detection firm is opening its U.S. office at the biotechnology incubator Hershey Center for Applied Research, in a move that will add 100 jobs over three years.Pacific Edge Diagnostics will market its bladder cancer detection test, Cx Bladder, to urologists at the end of the year, according to a statement [...]

Watson Pharmaceuticals (NYSE:WPI) has said it will build a $4.5 million research and development facility focused on developing respiratory products and inhalation technology in New Jersey. The drugmaker does not currently have a respiratory or inhalation platform, “so we will be establishing that organically,” a spokeswoman for the company said.About 50 new and current scientists, [...]

How many times have you read about the staggering shortage of nurses? It’s routine to see numbers in the hundreds of thousands tossed around ’representing the seemingly insatiable demand for nurses from an aging population. I’ve always been suspicious of these estimates. First, it’s not how the economy works. We’re not really going to have [...]