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Not Your Parents’ SOC? Building The Modern ‘Cyber Command Center’

With the use of Securonix, AmerisourceBergen is able to address its three core challenges: identifying both known and unknown threats, doing so in real-time, and providing SOC analysts with a ‘single pane of glass’ that gives them the functionality the…

Move To Population Health Hits Hospital Finances

Hospital operating margins are “under siege” amid the shift to population health and at-risk contracting, Fitch Ratings says in a new report.

Pressure Mounts On Rite Aid To Find A Partner

Rite Aid faces intensifying pressure to find a strategic partner one month after its merger with Albertsons fell apart.

The Incredible Expanding Universe of Biotech Stocks

The biotech sector is unique relative to the rest of the stock market in many ways, but one that is often overlooked: its expansionary public equity market footprint.

Why Former Novartis CEO Joe Jimenez Joined A Microbiome Startup’s Board

uBiome, a San Francisco startup that sells commercial tests that use DNA sequencing to identify what microbes are in a person’s stool or, for one test, in the vagina, has raised $83 million from venture capitalists to fund an entrée into drug developme…

Walking Just 35 Minutes A Day Could Lessen The Severity Of Strokes

Compared to people who don’t exercise much at all, those who engage in light to moderate physical activity, such as walking at least four hours a week or swimming two to three hours a week, may have less severe strokes, based on the findings of a new s…

Insurance, Wearables And The Future Of Healthcare

As technology improves the ability of devices to record data related to exercise and health, more companies are seeing the opportunities this new approach may offer. Understanding the variables of that disruption and not clinging to outdated ideas will…

Governor Signs Marijuana Legalization Bill, Making History In US Territory

The governor of the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands signed the cannabis legalization bill into law.

Puppies, What Did You Do Now? Antibiotic Resistant Infections In 118 People

The CDC is reporting on an outbreak of drug-resistant Campylobacter jejuni bacteria that spread to 18 states. That a load of poop.

The Biological Reason Your Memory Of Sexual Assault Persists

In a timely New York Times Op-Ed today, Dr. Richard A. Friedman, Professor of Psychiatry at Weill Cornell Medical College, eloquently describes the biological basis of why “Memories Of Assault Will Stick”, referring specifically to sexual assault.