Governor signs bill that makes pre-existing health conditions guarantee the law in...
Governor John Carney signed Senate Bill 35 and Senate Substitute 1 for Senate Bill 92, two pieces of legislation that put provisions of the...
AstraZeneca-Merck drug Lynparza shows promise in prostate cancer treatment
AstraZeneca and Merck & Co., Inc. announced positive results from the Phase III PROfound trial of Lynparza (olaparib) in men with a type of...
AstraZeneca gains momentum
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After many setbacks, AstraZeneca is on a roll.
Two of its cancer drugs are moving toward blockbuster status, the Fierce Pharma website reported. One...
State employees get surgery concierge option that aims to cut costs and improve outcomes
Employer Direct Healthcare has a new partnership with the State of Delaware after winning a competitive Request for Proposal issued by the State in...
Cary patients who were prescribed controlled substances urged to seek treatment options
The Delaware Department of Health and Social Services is asking patients of a New Castle County physician who prescribed controlled substances have been urged...
Pharma company Incyte reports higher earnings in first half
Incyte Corp. reported higher net income in the second quarter and first half.
Generally accepted accounting principles net income for the quarter ended June 30...
Concord Pike getting medical marijuana store
The Delaware Department of Public Health approved Columbia Care’s plans for a new location off Route 202 in late spring. The store-dispensary north of...
Hospital systems face uphill fight in vying for Sussex emergency center
Two Delaware hospital systems face a tough fight in seeking approval from the state to build a stand-alone emergency department in the center of...
Delaware makes headway in driving down state’s cancer death rates
Cancer screening and early detection efforts continue to drive down Delaware’s cancer death rates, according to state public health officials.
Officials are pointing to dramatic...
Bayhealth using new robotic guidance system for spinal surgery
Bayhealth Hospital, Kent Campus, became the first Delaware hospital to have a robotic guidance system for spine surgery with the purchase of an ExcelsiusGPS system.
Surgery with...
Del. Valley sees nation’s fastest employment growth based on job openings
Pay gains remain tiny, GlassDoor report indicates
The Philadelphia metro area showed the strongest growth among large metropolitan areas, based on the number of job...
Man, woman perish in shooting deaths at Foulk Road nursing home
Two died in a shooting Saturday afternoon at a nursing care facility near Wilmington.
Delaware State Police were dispatched to the ManorCare nursing home at...
Incyte, Chinese company announce drug development pact
Incyte and Zai Lab Ltd. announced that the companies have entered into an agreement for the development and commercialization of an investigational antibody, in...
Christiana Care Middletown earns certification for stroke readiness
Christiana Care Health System’s free-standing Middletown Emergency Department earned Advanced Disease-Specific Care Certification as an Acute Stroke Ready Hospital from The Joint Commission.
The certification...
State to open second substance abuse evaluation clinic in Georgetown
The Delaware Division of Substance Abuse and Mental Health officially will open the Sussex County Bridge Clinic on July 15.
The clinic will provide screening...
Cigarette, vaping sales age now 21 in Delaware
Effective today, Delaware has raised the age of sale of tobacco products to 21.
The law, known as Tobacco 21, aims to reduce tobacco use, address...
Wells used by Dover strip center, office building, 2 residences show...
An office building, two homes and a shopping center with five businesses are now receiving bottled water from the Dover Air Force Base after...
Self injector for drug used to treat severe asthma gets OK from European Union...
AstraZeneca announced that the European Medicines Agency’s Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use issued a positive opinion to add a self-administered pre-filled, single-use pen...
Chiropractor indicted on insurance fraud charges
Jean Vertus Laine, 42, a chiropractor, formerly with the Peoples Wellness Center, 556 South DuPont Highway, Milford, was indicted on Monday by a Sussex...
Christiana Care opens pain center that offers non-opioid treatment
Christiana Care Health System is launching the Comprehensive Pain Center – the first of its kind in Delaware – on the Christiana Hospital campus.
Patients...
