Bloomberg health care reporter Chen is leaving
Caroline Chen, a health care reporter at Bloomberg News, is leaving the news organization. On Twitter, Chen wrote, “I’ve had a wonderful time here and I’m so grateful to Bloomberg for letting me contribute to its health coverage.” She later tweeted, “More on my next steps to come soon.” Chen has covered the drug industry […]
Government agency threatens to ban Modern Healthcare reporter
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services threatened to ban a Modern Healthcare reporter from participating in the federal agency’s telephone news conferences after he refused to delete three sentences from a published story. Felice Freyer of The Boston Globe reported, “The reporter — Virgil Dickson, Washington bureau chief for Modern Healthcare — believed the agency was […]
Dallas Biz Journal tech reporter hired by D CEO magazine
Shawn Shinneman, the tech reporter for the Dallas Business Journal, has been hired by D CEO magazine to be a senior editor and editor of its D CEO Healthcare web site. D CEO editor Glenn Hunter writes, “Shawn comes to us from the Dallas Business Journal, where he’d served as the technology reporter, editing the DBJ‘s Techflash newsletter. “A […]
Coverage: Amazon, Berkshire, JP Morgan partner on health care
Amazon.com Inc., Berkshire Hathaway Inc. and JPMorgan Chase & Co. said on Tuesday they will form a company to cut health costs for hundreds of thousands of their employees. Caroline Humer and David Henry of Reuters had the news: The move by three of the best-known U.S. business leaders – Amazon’s Jeff Bezos, Berkshire’s Warren Buffett and JPMorgan’s Jamie Dimon […]
Reuters hires O’Connell from WSJ and Tanouye from Bloomberg
Reuters executive editor for professional news Amy Stevens announced the appointment of two new global industry editors on Monday: Dear All, Two weeks ago, we announced five of the Global Industry Editors (GIE’s) who will be championing our efforts to produce a company news file that is second to none. We also said that two […]
TheStreet seeks senior health care reporter
TheStreet Inc., an award-winning financial media company, is seeking a senior health care reporter to join its health care team. Based out of our Washington, DC, bureau, this writer will be part of a team responsible for covering all aspects of the health care industry for both TheStreet and our sister publication The Deal. The […]
Tennessean seeks health care industry reporter
The Tennessean is seeking an experienced reporter to cover Middle Tennessee’s near-$40 billion health care sector, the raging debate over health policy and public health issues in one of the nation’s sickest states. The successful candidate will balance coverage of a burgeoning industry (made up of hundreds of companies and a workforce totaling in the hundreds […]
Coverage: Celgene to buy cancer drugmaker for up to $7 billion
Celgene Corp. agreed to buy Impact Biomedicines for $1.1 billion to gain an experimental blood cancer treatment, but the price could reach as much as $7 billion if the drug reaches certain milestones. Cecile Daurat of Bloomberg News had the story: Under the agreement, Celgene will add up to $1.25 billion to the upfront payment if Impact’s […]
Ravindranath hired by Politico to cover ehealth
Mohana Ravindranath has been hired by Politico to cover ehealth. She had been working at Nextgov, Atlantic Media’s site for IT and government technology news, since February 2015, focusing on civilian agency technology and IT policy, with an eye toward Capitol Hill and congressional action as it relates to technology. Before that, Ravindranath worked at […]
Coverage: FDA approves drug for childhood blindness
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration just approved a new gene therapy that can treat an inherited childhood blindness disease. Katherine Ellen Foley of Quartz had the story: On Tuesday Dec. 19, the FDA gave doctors the clearance to use Luxturna, a gene therapy, to treat the effects of biallelic RPE65 mutation-associated retinal dystrophy, a rare genetic eye […]
