Exact Sciences Corp. stock climbed nearly 15 percent Monday after the Madison cancer diagnostics company offered preliminary results for the last three months of 2018 that topped projections, showing more than 930,000 people used Exact’s Cologuard home test kit for colorectal cancer last year. Revenue for...
SAN DIEGO--ResMed (NYSE: RMD) (ASX: RMD), a leader in cloud-connected medical devices and out-of-hospital software-as-a-service (SaaS) business solutions, today announced it has completed its acquisition of Propeller Health, a digital therapeutics company providing connected health solutions for people living with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)...
Fujifilm Cellular Dynamics Inc. (FCDI) plans to invest $21 million to create a facility in Madison for manufacturing stem cell therapies that can be used as regenerative medicine — cells that can repair or rebuild a patient’s diseased or damaged tissue. FCDI manufactures human induced pluripotent...
Semba Biosciences announced recently that it received an equity investment from Tosoh Bioscience, which intends to acquire the company, though no additional details were provided. According to a release, the two companies have been collaborating on various biomanufacturing projects since 2007. “We are extremely pleased to team up...
San Francisco, Calif. – Dignity Health, one of the nation’s largest health systems, and Propeller Health, a leading digital therapeutics company, announced today the results of their new published, peer-reviewed study, which indicates that asthma-related emergency room visits declined by more than half for people who used connected,...
FLORHAM PARK, N.J. -- Cellectar Biosciences (Nasdaq: CLRB), a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on the discovery, development and commercialization of drugs for the treatment of cancer, announces the initiation of Cohort 6 of its ongoing Phase 1b trial evaluating CLR 131 for the treatment of...
Xconomy Wisconsin — ResMed has inked a $225 million deal to acquire Propeller Health, in the latest endorsement of Internet-connected devices for healthcare. The acquisition, which is expected to close by the end of March 2019, continues San Diego-based ResMed’s (NYSE: RMD) “connected healthcare” push that began...
Colorado native Roland Green was an English literature major at Western Colorado University who dabbled in poetry writing and spent countless, blissful hours skiing the Rocky Mountain slopes. Ever a history buff, when the Berlin Wall fell, Green was curious to find out what had become...
This week’s episode of “WisBusiness: The Podcast” features Erin Tenderholt, founder of a Madison-based startup called Blexx. Tenderholt has created a new patent-pending technology in hopes of improving how people dispose of hypodermic needles. “This cost is bigger than you imagine. Ask a nurse, ask a tattoo...
New research from Propeller Health, the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the University of California, Berkeley, is the first nationwide study to show an association between daily air pollution and rescue inhaler use using data obtained objectively from digital medicines. The study, conducted from 2012 to 2017 on more than 2,800 people...