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| 09.11.2021 | Cardinal Health, Inc. announces an Equity Buyback for $3,000 million worth of its shares. | Cardinal Health, Inc. (NYSE:CAH) announces a share repurchase program. Under the program, the company will repurchase up to $3,000 million worth of its common stock. The program will expire on December 31, 2024. |
| 02.06.2015 | The Backyard Effect: Finding The Secret Sauce For Growing An Entrepreneurial Ecosystem | Tom Walker Contributor
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| 22.01.2014 | It looks like UnitedHealth is acquiring Audax Health Solutions | In its latest report tracking payers’ priorities, Chilmark Research points out that projects are targeting member engagement. It is also seeing a growing investment in payer-owned consumer platforms, biometric tracking and new social media ... |
| 05.11.2013 | 12 healthcare industry trends driving Cardinal Health’s investment and innovation strategy | Promoted
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| 28.08.2013 | Digital health group with patient engagement focus attracts funding from Florida insurer, Facebook VP | To date, it’s raised $55 million from backers that include New Leaf Ventures, Cardinal Health and insurer Cigna. Earlier this year, Cigna CIO Mark Boxer joined its board. At the time he said one advantage of the company was its ability to u... |
| 29.11.2011 | NB Therapeutics raising $1 million to fund nail fungus therapy | Iontophoresis involves using electric currents to improve drug delivery through the skin and nails, a method the company says improves drug delivery since it can facilitate delivery of high concentrations of a medication in a single dose an... |
| 04.08.2011 | Cardinal Health: Generics continue to boost sales | The company’s pharmaceutical segment, by far its largest, enjoyed year-over-year revenue growth of 10 percent to $24.5 billion and an impressive 30 percent increase in profits to $295 million. Those numbers were helped by Cardinal’s acquisi... |
| 20.04.2011 | Entegrion licenses clotting bandage to Boston device firm | For its 9th birthday, the biotech Entegrion is giving itself a present: a product on the market.
The Research Triangle Park, N.C.-based company struck a licensing deal with a Boston-based medical device company to manufacture and market Ent... |
| 19.04.2011 | NC biotech strikes deal to launch new blood clotting bandage | The Stasilon bandage itself received Food and Drug Administration clearance in 2007. Entegrion had been trying to commercialize the product on its own. But those efforts were stymied by the financial markets.
Now, though, Entegrion has rais... |
| 06.04.2011 | ‘Generic wave’ to drive Cardinal Health’s profitability in coming years | Promoted
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| 12.08.2010 | Cardinal Health expands ability to make molecular imaging agents | Cardinal distributes its radiopharmaceuticals through 155 nuclear pharmacies nationwide. “Our agreement will play a key role in enabling us to bring this important modality to patients in Tennessee and throughout the southeast United States... |
| 09.03.2010 | Pharmacists sue Cardinal Health; Cardinal: No merit to claims | Terry Burnside, general manager and senior vice president responsible for the Medicine Shoppe International Inc. and Medicap Pharmacies Inc. operations at Cardinal Health, said in a statement: “We are disappointed that these seven franchise... |
| 03.02.2010 | Night Read (Ohio): Insurers more likely to cover costs of hospital observation units | News and notes from the day in MedCity, Ohio:
In recent years, hospitals nationwide have created observation units to watch patients for a few hours or a few days without admitting them, according to the Columbus Dispatch. The practice can ... |
| 28.01.2010 | Cardinal Health beats analysts’ earnings expectations; raises expected profit for year | The distributor of drugs and medical products — and Ohio’s biggest company — had net earnings of $234.5 million, or 65 cents a diluted share, in the quarter ended Dec. 31. That was down 26 percent from $316.5, or 88 cents a diluted share, i... |
| 25.01.2010 | Night Read (Ohio): Cleveland Clinic won’t do face, hand transplants for Charla Nash | Dublin health care services company Cardinal Health Inc. said Monday it has named James Mongan, former president and CEO of Massachusetts General Hospital one of the founding members of Partners HealthCare to its board of directors, Busines... |
| 12.01.2010 | University of Cincinnati College of Medicine launches early stage cancer drug development program — MedCity Evening Read, Jan. 12, 2010 | The MetroHealth System in Cleveland has sold $75 million in Build America bonds (pdf) and will use the proceeds for capital projects throughout the system, according to Crain’s Cleveland.
You would think shares of Meridian Bioscience in Ci... |
| 07.01.2010 | Cardinal Health launches supply management software for laboratories | “Cardinal Health’s Connect System has helped us significantly improve staff efficiency and product availability,” Olive Miranda, clinical laboratory manager at Sutter Delta Medical Center in Antioch, Calif., said in the release. “Because th... |
| 06.01.2010 | Prilosec OTC wants to help you enjoy your passions — MedCity Evening Read, Jan. 6, 2010 | Neoprobe Corp., the Dublin company developing a novel cancer-detection drug, has struck a three-year employment agreement with its long-time CEO, agreeing to pay David C. Bupp an annual base salary of $355,000, an annual bonus of up to $1... |
| 06.01.2010 | Illinois medical products supplier Sarnova gets $500K investment | In April, Sarnova reported a major fund-raise of $10 million, and in September it raised another $500,000, according to regulatory filings.
A company official did not return a call. Sarnova declined to disclose its revenue in the regulatory... |
| 04.01.2010 | University of Cincinnati students experiment with medical device design — MedCity Evening Read, Jan. 4, 2010 | A new and improved Hillcrest Hospital should be up and running by this time next year, thanks to a $163 million expansion project at the Cleveland Clinic hospital in Mayfield Heights, according to the Willoughby News-Herald.Â
An Ohio law... |
| 20.11.2009 | Cardinal Health extends distribution deal with sponge-safety company | Promoted
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| 03.11.2009 | New Cardinal Health service targets mail-order pharmacy market | Promoted
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| 06.10.2009 | Nursing home funding cuts — MedCity Morning Read, Tuesday Oct. 6 | But nursing homes may be overstating their problems, writes Ken Terry.
According to this group, reports from the Government Accountability Office (GAO) and the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC) show that Medicare overpays nursin... |
| 25.09.2009 | Cardinal Health purchases $1.1 billion in debt, deals with stock downgrade | Promoted
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| 04.08.2009 | Cardinal Health acquires nuclear pharmacy company, expands in the Southwest | Promoted
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| 03.08.2009 | House committee narrowly approves reform bill, clears way for fall vote — MedCity Morning Read, Aug. 3, 2009 | The House and Senate will adjourn for the summer on Friday, Aug. 7, without giving President Obama the health reform bill he wanted by then. But the debate so far has crystallized the battle lines over the proposals to cover more of the nat... |
| 31.07.2009 | Liberal Democrats threaten health care reform — MedCity Morning Read, July 31, 2009 | Ever since Democrats won congressional majorities in 2006, party leaders have struggled to balance the demands of their liberal and conservative members, the Times said.
Another sign of liberal unrest: an anti-abortion amendment to proposed... |
| 10.07.2009 | Baucus (a Democrat) and Grassley (a Republican) team up on bipartisan health care reform — MedCity Morning Read, July 10, 2009 | On Thursday, Baucus, who chairs the finance committee, presented his members with more than a dozen ways to pay for health care reform, according to Politico. The ways ranged from new fees on industry to an income-tax hike on couples earnin... |
| 02.07.2009 | New York’s ‘medical mart’ — still four years away — announces 11 tenants | Promoted
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| 17.06.2009 | Imalux Corp. hires new president, CEO: Michael Burke | “We are very pleased to have Mike assume the leadership role at Imalux,” said Bill Sanford, the company’s chairman, in a written statement. “He has a track record of success in all phases of commercialization of medical technologies on a wo... |
| 17.04.2009 | MedCity morning read, Friday, April 17 | In another measure of rising prices, Express Scripts Inc., one of the nation’s largest pharmacy-benefits managers, said it saw prices rise more than 10 percent to 15 percent between the 2008 first quarter and the just-ended quarter, the Jou... |
| 18.02.2009 | MedCity morning read, Wednesday, Feb. 18 | Stem cells are progenitor cells that can develop into many types of tissues in the body. For instance, stem cells are being tested as a way to restore blood vessel and muscle tissue in the heart that is damaged by an attack.
Embryonic st... |
| - | Cardinal Health acquires nuclear pharmacy company, expands in the Southwest | DUBLIN, Ohio — Cardinal Health added to its nuclear pharmacy business by acquiring the assets of Biotech, which has pharmacies in four states in the Southwest United States.
Biotech, based in Texas, operates nuclear pharmacies and makes Pos... |
| - | Cardinal Health expands ability to make molecular imaging agents | Cardinal Health Inc. (NYSE: CAH) will manage and operate the Knoxville, Tennessee, cyclotron facility of ProVision Healthcare through an agreement that expands the Dublin, Ohio, drug distributor’s ability to make molecular imaging agents na... |
| - | NC biotech strikes deal to launch new blood clotting bandage | For its 9th birthday, the North Carolina biotech Entegrion is giving itself a present: a product on the market.
The Research Triangle Park company has struck a licensing deal with a Boston-based medical device company to manufacture and mar... |
| - | Night Read (Ohio): Insurers more likely to cover costs of hospital observation units | News and notes from the day in MedCity, Ohio:
In recent years, hospitals nationwide have created observation units to watch patients for a few hours or a few days without admitting them, according to the Columbus Dispatch. The practice can ... |
| - | House committee narrowly approves reform bill, clears way for fall vote — MedCity Morning Read, Aug. 3, 2009 | WASHINGTON, D.C. — The House Energy and Commerce Committee voted 31 to 28 on Friday to approve legislation to overhaul the nation’s health care system, clearing the way for a full House vote after Congress returns in the fall after a summer... |
| - | University of Cincinnati College of Medicine launches early stage cancer drug development program — MedCity Evening Read, Jan. 12, 2010 | News and notes from a day in MedCity, Ohio:
The University of Cincinnati College of Medicine has launched an early stage cancer drug development program and phase-1 clinical trials unit for patients who have solid tumors that have resisted ... |
| - | New Cardinal Health service targets mail-order pharmacy market | DUBLIN, Ohio — Cardinal Health unveiled a new feature that better organizes drugs sent out to its mail-order pharmacy customers.
The EZ Cart system is important to Cardinal because the company considers mail-order pharmacies a strategic gro... |
| - | University of Cincinnati students experiment with medical device design — MedCity Evening Read, Jan. 4, 2010 | News and notes from the day in MedCity, Ohio:
Danielle Everman had never heard of pelvic prolapse until she started the Medical Device Innovation and Entrepreneurship Program at the University of Cincinnati, according to the Business Courie... |
| - | Prilosec OTC wants to help you enjoy your passions — MedCity Evening Read, Jan. 6, 2010 | News and notes from a day in MedCity, Ohio:
Prilosec OTC, the over-the-counter acid reducer by Cincinnati’s Procter & Gamble, today launched the “Official Sponsor of Everything You Do Without Heartburn” program. Consumers will use phot... |
| - | Imalux Corp. hires new president, CEO: Michael Burke | Updated 4:40 p.m.
CLEVELAND, Ohio — Medical imaging technology company Imalux Corp. has named a new president and chief executive: Michael Burke.
Burke, a veteran health care industry entrepreneur, left TREK Diagnostic Systems in Independe... |
| - | Pharmacists sue Cardinal Health; Cardinal: No merit to claims | Updated 6:27 p.m.
Seven Medicine Shoppe and Medicap independent pharmacy franchise owners are suing Cardinal Health Inc. and its two franchising companies, seeking to undo agreements renegotiated last year through Cardinal’s “heavy-handed w... |
| - | Liberal Democrats threaten health care reform — MedCity Morning Read, July 31, 2009 | WASHINGTON, D.C. — After marching in line as senior Democrats worked with the White House to develop health care reform legislation, liberal lawmakers are threatening a revolt that could doom President Obama’s bid to sign a major overhaul ... |
| - | MedCity morning read, Friday, April 17 | Hospitals and drug companies raised prices to bolster earnings in the first quarter even as government and private insurers struggled to reign in runaway health care costs, according to an analysis done by the Wall Street Journal (subscri... |
| - | Cardinal Health launches supply management software for laboratories | Updated 2:12 p.m., Jan. 8, 2010.
DUBLIN, Ohio — Cardinal Health has introduced Connect System — an inventory management software system that uses product bar codes and scanners to reduce the time laboratories spend on ordering supplies.
The... |
| - | Illinois medical products supplier Sarnova gets $500K investment | LINCOLNSHIRE, Illinois — Sarnova Inc., a supplier of respiratory and emergency medical services products, reported a fund-raise of $500,000 in equity, according to a regulatory filing.
The company was created in 2008, when Chicago private e... |
| - | Cardinal Health extends distribution deal with sponge-safety company | Image by Getty Images via Daylife
DUBLIN, Ohio — Health services firm Cardinal Health has extended its exclusive distribution agreement with a California company that’s developed a system to help track sponges used in surgical procedures.
T... |
| - | Night Read (Ohio): Cleveland Clinic won’t do face, hand transplants for Charla Nash | News and notes from the day in MedCity, Ohio:
The Cleveland Clinic said Monday that it will not perform a face and hand transplant on Charla Nash, the Connecticut woman savagely attacked by a chimpanzee last February, according to the Assoc... |
| - | ‘Generic wave’ to drive Cardinal Health’s profitability in coming years | Cardinal Health (NYSE:CAH) and pharmaceuticals distributors of its ilk will have few better friends over the coming years than generic drugs.
The so-called “generic wave” — created by scores of brand-name drugs whose patents are expiring be... |
| - | NB Therapeutics raising $1 million to fund nail fungus therapy | Nitric BioTheraputics, a biopharmaceutical and medical device company, is raising $1 million to fund clinical trials of its drug-delivery therapy for onychomycosis, a type of nail fungus, according to the CEO of the company, Frank McCaney.
... |
| - | Cardinal Health: Generics continue to boost sales | Drug distributor Cardinal Health (NYSE: CAH) reported a 19 percent fourth-quarter increase in sales of generic drugs, an area that continues to be a strength for the company.
Generics — as well as acquisitions that have allowed the company ... |
| - | Baucus (a Democrat) and Grassley (a Republican) team up on bipartisan health care reform — MedCity Morning Read, July 10, 2009 | WAUKON, Iowa — The two seem an unlikely pair — Max Baucus, the Stanford-educated lawyer from a Montana ranching family who looks uncomfortable leading debates; and Chuck Grassley, the thrifty soybean farmer from Iowa who has a penchant for... |
| - | MedCity morning read, Wednesday, Feb. 18 | The stocks of stem cell therapy developers got a big boost on Tuesday, despite a huge loss for the overall stock market.
Shares of StemCell Inc. in Palo Alto, Calif., surged 17 percent to $2.48, according to an Associated Press story at Fo... |
| - | It looks like UnitedHealth is acquiring Audax Health Solutions | UnitedHealth Group (NYSE: UNH) is poised to acquire digital health company Audax Health Solutions according to a filing with the Federal Trade Commission. The move reflects a growing priority among payers to develop and add tools to boost m... |
| - | Cardinal Health beats analysts’ earnings expectations; raises expected profit for year | DUBLIN, Ohio — A leaner and more energized Cardinal Health Inc. is beginning to emerge from the company’s ongoing strategic overhaul, judging by the company’s second fiscal quarter earnings results.
Calling the overhaul a “marathon, not a s... |
| - | New York’s ‘medical mart’ — still four years away — announces 11 tenants | NEW YORK — Even though they say it’s only a year away from opening, builders of Cleveland’s medical mart have been coy about announcing tenants for their facility.
One of its competitors isn’t as modest. New York’s World Product Centre, whi... |
| - | Digital health group with patient engagement focus attracts funding from Florida insurer, Facebook VP | A subsidiary of Florida’s largest insurer led a series B round for a digital health group that uses a selection of patient engagement tools to improve outcomes.
Audax Health Solutions raised $20 million in a round led by Navigy Holdings, a ... |
| - | Cardinal Health purchases $1.1 billion in debt, deals with stock downgrade | DUBLIN, Ohio — Cardinal Health started putting its CareFusion spinoff cash to work, announcing it purchased $1.1 billion in debt for $1.2 billion.
Cardinal received $1.4 billion in proceeds from the spinoff, which became official last month... |
| - | 12 healthcare industry trends driving Cardinal Health’s investment and innovation strategy | In the past few years, pharmaceutical distributor Cardinal Health (NYSE:CAH) has acquired a major distributor and half a dozen pharmaceutical companies in China. It also acquired AssuraMed to enter the home-health supply market, and investe... |
| - | Nursing home funding cuts — MedCity Morning Read, Tuesday Oct. 6 | Image via Wikipedia
Just in time for the baby-boomer population to move into nursing homes, recent funding cuts may leave some with closed doors, according to the Associated Press.
Deep federal and state government cuts prompted by the rece... |
