Rob Johnson, owner of Portland, Ore.-based marketing and communications consulting firm Fine Tuning, wrote in a Federal News Network commentary piece published Wednesday about the Aurora exa... Read more
Leidos has received a potential five-year, $57.7M contract to help a U.S. Navy center study how deployments and career-related experiences affect the health of U.S. service members and their... Read more
ElectroCore, a provider of bioelectronic medicine, has received a five-year contract to distribute a hand-held medical therapy product across the Department of Veterans Affairs, Department o... Read more
The U.S. Army is seeking information on current good manufacturing processes for a cryopreserved platelets product to aid the Army Medical Materiel Development Activity’s endeavors to... Read more
James Winnefeld, former vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and a retired U.S. Navy admiral, has joined Perthera as a senior adviser of the McLean, Virginia-based precision medicine c... Read more
Wanda Gamble oversees the health and analytics unit at Battelle as a vice president for the nonprofit science and research organization whose federal healthcare clients include the departmen... Read more
Lockheed Martin has awarded Kitron a multimillion dollar contract to provide integrated backplane assembly for F-35 jets under low-rate initial production lot 11. Kitron said Tuesday it will... Read more
Pfenex Inc. and the Department of Health and Human Services have begun clinical research for a new anthrax vaccine under a 30-month, $15.9 million contract. The Biomedical Advanced Research... Read more
Maximus has donated at least $29,000 to Project Hope to aid the non-profit organization in its health relief efforts in Nepal after the recent two earthquakes that struck the country. Richar... Read more
BioCryst Pharmaceuticals will experiment on a new drug to treat the Ebola virus under a potential $35 million contract with the Department of Health and Human Services. Studies on the experi... Read more
Lockheed Martin has signed an agreement with two oil and natural gas producers to evaluate the potential of a Lockheed-designed membrane technology to filter wastewater at oil drilling sites... Read more
YarcData and Selventa have teamed up to use the former’s data analytics tool to help pharmaceutical businesses identify drugs, discover new medicines and speed up deliveries. Selventa... Read more
Deloitte and Intermountain Healthcare have jointly introduced an analytics application designed to help life sciences customers develop medicines using clinical data. PopulationMiner will wo... Read more
CAE and Ambulance Victoria have designed a training system for medical professionals to handle multiple casualties in times of emergencies at the SimTect/SimHealth exhibition in Australia Tu... Read more
DARPA Launches Mental Health Medicine Dev’t Program for Veterans
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has launched an effort to develop new psychotherapeutic medicine for the mental health of servicemen and veterans. Read more