VALNEVA Signs $39.6 Million IXIARO® Supply Contract with US Government
Valneva SE (“Valneva” or “the Company”), a fully integrated, commercial stage biotech company focused on developing innovative, life-saving vaccines, announces today the signing of a $39.6 million one year contract with the US Government’s Department of Defense...
New study explains why US health care spending increased $1 trillion
A new study finds that the cost of health care in the United States increased nearly $1 trillion from 1996 to 2013 and measures the causes behind this immense growth. The study, published today in JAMA, reveals that price and “intensity” (variety and...
Fitbit chosen for long-term US health study
Fitbit has been tussling with Apple and Xiaomi when it comes to market share in the wearables field and quarter to quarter, each has held the top spot at one point or another over the past year. But it turns out Fitbit is the favorite wearable producer in the medical...
NIH awards to test ways to store, access, share, and compute on biomedical data in the cloud
Twelve awards totaling $9 million in Fiscal Year 2017 will launch a National Institutes of Health Data Commons Pilot Phase. A data commons is a shared virtual space where scientists can work with the digital objects of biomedical research, such as data and analytical...