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Digital Apps in the Cards For FitDeck Founder
FITNESS: Nike Inc. Selects Firm for Accelerator Program The founder and CEO of San Diego-based FitDeck, which markets sets of exercise playing cards fitness buffs can use anytime anywhere, is getting a serious fitness test of his own these days in the Pacific Northwest. June 17, 2013 midnight $$ Share
Illumina Campus Is Bigger and Better as Part of Firm’s Growth Plan
Biotechnology Column
Right on the edge of the Interstate 805 is the latest addition to the sprawling Illumina Inc. campus: a spanking-new athletic complex and corporate amphitheater that seats 1,750.
Arena’s Anti-Obesity Drug Heads to Market, Triggering $65M Payment
San Diego-based Arena Pharmaceuticals Inc. announced that its anti-obesity drug, Belviq, will go on sale Tuesday — triggering a $65 million milestone payment from its marketing partner, Japanese drugmaker Eisai Co. Ltd.
Sotera Wireless Inc. Expands Board of Directors
Sotera Wireless Inc., a San Diego company that has developed a wireless patient monitoring system, has grown its board of directors.
More Patients Means More Demand for Space
PROPERTY: Report Expects Newly Insured to Drive Need for Facilities
Economic uncertainties and questions about the impact of upcoming federal health care reforms have prompted medical practices to delay real estate decisions during the past few years. But experts say the local climate could see some shifts as key elements of the Affordable Care Act take effect in 2014.
PremloCare Offers Doctor, Patient Video Consultation Service
HEALTH: Telemedicine Market Expected to Reach $27.3 Billion in 2016
A San Diego company is entering the burgeoning telemedicine market, launching a service that now remotely connects patients to about 800 physicians in the San Diego area.
San Diego Biotech Companies See Growth as Funding Heats Up
Biotechnology Column
Biotech. It’s hot. On a local level, as widely reported, there’s been a string of IPOs and secondary public offerings across San Diego’s biotech landscape — as well as new funding announcements and heavy-hitting milestone payments.
Health Care Billing Needs Its Own Reform
MEDICINE: Cost Fluctuations, Actual Payments Hard to Decipher
Recent data from Medicare shows that hospital costs differ significantly across the country — and that health care billing in San Diego happens to be on the higher end.
Lumena Secures $23M to Advance Trials for Liver Disease Drug
BIOTECH: PwC Reports Q1 2013 Drop In Dollars and Deals
Lumena Pharmaceuticals Inc., a San Diego-based manufacturer of liver disease drugs, recently secured $23 million in Series A financing.
New Implanted Device Is Transforming the Treatment of Scoliosis
MEDICINE: UCSD Surgeons, Firm Develop Corrective Magnetic Rods
Implanted, growing magnetic rods — they sound like something out of a sci-fi movie.
Ambrx Closes New Deal With Bristol-Myers
BIOTECH: Funding Allows Firm Flexibility for Development
In rapid succession San Diego’s Ambrx Inc. has received sizable payouts from sizable drug companies, most recently penning a cancer drug development deal with New York-based Bristol-Myers Squibb.
Qualcomm Acquires Medical Software Maker
HEALTH CARE: Firm Doubles Employment in Its Qualcomm Life Unit
One of the hottest buzzwords of health care reform is the ACO — the accountable care organization. San Diego’s Qualcomm Life, the health sciences subsidiary of telecommunications giant Qualcomm Inc., has made a bold move to enter the ACO space — by acquiring San Diego IT company HealthyCircles Inc.
Local Biotech Activity Hints at Sector’s Post-Recession Pickup
Biotechnology Column
It’s been a busy few weeks for San Diego’s biotechs. Acquisitions, partnership payouts and a number of IPOs are in the works—all signs that the sector, somewhat sluggish post-recession, is picking up its pace.
Scripps Health Wins With Bid for Hospice
HEALTH: Bankrupt Facility Will Still Be Used as Hospice
A heated auction in federal bankruptcy court last week culminated in Scripps Health making a winning $16.55 million bid for San Diego Hospice’s eight-acre Hillcrest property.
Seating Concepts Moves to a New Seat in San Diego
SDBJ Insider
Family-owned fixed auditorium seating provider Seating Concepts LLC, which was started in Mexico with just 5,000 in pesos in 1926, and moved to the U.S. in the 1980s, has announced that it has relocated its global corporate headquarters near Lindbergh Field in San Diego.
Warburg Pincus-Backed Sophiris Biosciences Plans $75M IPO
BIOTECH: Former Canadian Firm Developing BPH Treatment
Sophiris Biosciences Inc.’s story is one of immigration and, in a way, the pursuit of the American dream: It’s a Canadian-turned-American pharmaceutical company that’s using its newfound San Diego base to restructure and ramp up development plans for its drug that treats prostate enlargement.
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