Healthcare News

Sacred Heart University launched its Life and Sport Analysis Clinic earlier this month to help patients become more fit and to help prevent future health problems ...

Kevin Counihan, CEO of Connecticut’s health insurance exchange, has set the bar high. Let’s see if he and his staff can deliver ...

New data reveal a great degree of variance – both nationally and in Fairfield County – in what different hospitals charge for the same procedures ...

Hudson Health Plan positions itself to better compete in the state’s new health insurance marketplace ...

Progenics Pharmaceuticals Inc. this month reported a first-quarter net loss of $11.3 million, or 22 cents per share. Officials at the biotechnology company in Greenburgh said a $1.8 million decrease in total expenses for the quarter lowered the oncology-focused drug developer’s net loss from $13.1 million, or 39 cents per share, in the first quarter of 2012. Progenics in January acquired Molecular Insight P ...

A Westport-based assisted living services provider will develop a new 84-unit facility in Bethel, with construction scheduled to begin this summer and completion slated for the late summer of 2014. ...

The new hospital is expected to be completed by 2016 after the Stamford Health System adjusted the construction timetable last June to allow for a single-phase construction project. ...

Despite a sluggish start to the first quarter, officials at Acorda Therapeutics Inc. in Ardsley said the biotechnology company is still on track to record net sales of $285 million to $315 million this year for its drug Ampyra. The drug is prescribed to improve walking in patients with multiple sclerosis (MS). Dr. Ron Cohen, founding president and CEO of Acorda, told investors that the company now has in it ...

An Orangeburg maker of medical devices names Zauberman interim chief. ...

Hudson Health Plan, the Medicaid managed care organization based in Tarrytown, will join the MVP Health Care group of companies, the two nonprofit health plans jointly announced today. Together Hudson and Schenectady-based MVP will serve approximately 733,000 members. Both expect their membership to grow with the launch of the state’s health insurance exchange later this year. Financial terms of the agreeme ...

The state is moving forward with its regulatory plans for medical marijuana. ...

Norwalk Hospital broke ground on a new ambulatory pavilion May 3 in what is being billed as the largest expansion project in the hospital's 120-year existence. ...

Come the start of next year, hundreds of businesses across Connecticut will have to have answered a critical question when it comes to health care – do they want to play or pay, Thomas Krywinski writes. ...

"Dramatically different views" on use of resources killed talks of Sound Shore Health System merging into Westchester Medical Center. ...

OmniMD, a division of Integrated Systems Management Inc., is a finalist in the Patient Portal for New Yorkers Challenge, a design competition held by the New York eHealth Collaborative ...