CAMBRIDGE, Mass.--Editas Medicine, a leading genome editing company, today announced that they have entered into an exclusive joint license agreement with the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard and Harvard University to access intellectual property and technology related to the CRISPR/Cas9 and TALE genome editing systems. 

Private oncologists are being forced to sell or close their practices because insurers have severely reduced payments to them and because the drugs they prescribe patients are now so expensive, reports The New York Times.

Greater variation exists among private payers versus public ones for different hospital services, according to a study published in the American Journal of Managed Care.

 While healthcare executives have been worried about the high cost of implementing the Affordable Care Act, what's really keeping them up at night is the rising cost of labor caused by the declining number of physicians, according to Forbes. 

As federal and state insurance exchanges enter their second year, from 60 percent to more than 80 percent of plans could be high deductible, reports Modern Healthcare.

Scottsdale, AZ – November 6, 2014 – Orion Health, a population health management company, today announced the opening of its new development center in Scottsdale, Arizona. The Orion Health ‘Center of Excellence’ will serve as the company’s North American research and solution center, supporting big data analytics technology development, focused on providing decision support to clinicians and patients, and solution support for clients’ population health initiatives.

A Wisconsin woman is fighting off bankruptcy after spending 10 days in the hospital in a medical induced coma. The patient, taken by ambulance to a hospital outside of her covered network, could not alert the driver because she was incapacitated and clinically dead, according to United Press International.

Thousands of nurses at Kaiser Permanente in Northern California plan to walk off the job amid heated contract negotiations, according to Napa Valley Register.