North Carolina News

Today, the National Patient Advocate Foundation acknowledges that the North Carolina House of Representatives recently approved a bill that would prohibit insurers who offer coverage for chemotherapy from charging patients higher out-of-pocket fees for newer, more expensive oral anti-cancer drugs than for IV formularies, many of which have more severe side-effects. However, the bill was amended to include a maximum out-of-pocket limit of $300, which will continue to be a barrier to patients with cancer and in need of essential ... read more

Camstar Systems, Inc. announced today that Fairchild Semiconductor, the iconic leader in the design and manufacture of power and mobile semiconductor technologies, is replacing the legacy commercial and customized MES applications with Semiconductor SuiteTM, an industry-specific version of Camstar’s Enterprise MES Platform. The ... read more

Oxygen Biotherapeutics, Inc. (NASDAQ: OXBT), today announced that the NASDAQ Listing Qualifications Panel (the “Panel”) has granted the Company’s request for continued listing on The NASDAQ Capital Market pursuant to an extension through June 3, 2013 to evidence compliance with the minimum $1.00 bid price requirement ... read more

NeoNova® Network Services, an industry leader in cloud-based services for regional telcos and an authorized Premier Reseller of Google Apps(TM), is expanding and relocating its corporate headquarters to Trinity Place in Raleigh effective May 20. "NeoNova has grown dramatically over the last two years, and this new location will help us better serve our customers and partners," said NeoNova CEO Ray Carey. "Our new space is designed to spur even more creativity, innovation, and collaboration among our highly-skilled and experienced team." NeoNova ... read more

Pharmaceutical Product Development, LLC (PPD) today announced that Skillsoft has named PPD a winner of the 2013 Skillsoft Perspectives Innovation Award for Empowering Learning Cultures in the Enterprise. Judged by an independent panel of industry experts, the Skillsoft award ... read more

Over the next three years, global organizations will make understanding and interacting with the customer their top priority. So says a new study from The Economist Intelligence Unit Voice of the customer: Whose job is it, anyway? Yet only 56 percent of respondents to the survey, ... read more

Lenovo (HKSE: 0992) (ADR: LNVGY): The multi-mode, flip and fold IdeaPad Yoga 11S goes on sale today. (Photo: Business Wire) Customers can place orders on Lenovo’s website and pre-order on Best ... read more

Third graph, third sentence of release should read: Lower ranking hospitals in the PEI included notable healthcare institutions like Parkland Hospital, which scored a 41 and University Hospital in San Antonio, which scored a 36. The corrected release reads: ... read more

Sales Performance International (SPI) announced today the acquisition of WeSkill, LLC., an innovative provider of scalable, customized learning solutions. Through its unique authoring and content distribution platform, WeSkill offers out-of-the-box learning courseware in multiple areas, including: ... read more

Industry Standard Research (ISR) today announced the release of a new market research report titled “2013 Phase I Study Trends and Market Outlook” providing the pharmaceutical industry and its service providers with new insights into phase-specific trends affecting in-house and ... read more

Mobile Reach, a leading provider of enterprise mobility software solutions for IT Service Management and IT Asset Management, today announced an expansion of its partnership with BMC Software. Mobility software solutions built on Mobile Reach's Splitware Mobility Platform, an award-winning mobile enterprise application platform, will be sold through BMC's MarketZone program, which facilitates the development, marketing and distribution of third-party products that complement BMC solutions. Mobile Reach software solutions provided through the BMC MarketZone program will include IT asset management mobile applications ... read more

The National Venture Capital Association (NVCA) today announced the election of Arthur M. Pappas, managing partner of Pappas Ventures, to its board of directors. He will serve a four-year term. The appointment was made official at the association's annual meeting - VentureScape 2013 - in San Francisco. Mr. Pappas has over 30 years of operating experience as a pharmaceutical and biotechnology industry executive and venture capital investor in life science companies. He founded Pappas Ventures in 1994, and works with a ... read more

CTIA 2013 – Booth # 5734 EnTouch One Photo (Photo: Business Wire) Telit Wireless Solutions, a global provider of high-quality machine-to-machine (M2M) solutions, products and services and EnTouch Controls, a leading provider ... read more

Accenture (NYSE: ACN) and the Employer Support of the Guard and Reserve (ESGR), a Department of Defense operational committee, announced today that Accenture will sign a Statement of Support for the Guard and Reserve. The signing will occur as part of a day of resume development and ... read more

Axial Exchange, Inc., a pioneer in using mobile apps to deepen the patient’s role in improving outcomes, today announced the results of its Texas Patient Engagement Index (PEI), a groundbreaking index that ranks U.S. hospitals based on an analysis of publically available data in ... read more

BioDuro, A PPD® Company, today announced it has opened a new state-of-the-art laboratory in Shanghai, strengthening its ability to provide biopharmaceutical clients an extensive range of customized drug discovery services in Asia Pacific. The new lab also enables the company ... read more

Tengion, Inc. (OTCQB: TNGN), a leader in regenerative medicine, today provided a business update and reported its financial results for the first quarter ended March 31, 2013. "We are very pleased to have achieved a significant milestone this quarter with the MPA approval for the Phase 1 trial in Sweden of the Neo-Kidney Augment. We expect to see further development of this program in the second quarter of this year with the initiation of the Phase I clinical trial in patients ... read more

Merck Serono, a division of Merck, Darmstadt, Germany, and Quintiles, the world’s largest provider of biopharmaceutical development and commercial outsourcing services, today announced a new, five-year clinical development agreement. This strategic collaboration is the first-of-its-kind between a biopharmaceutical company and a ... read more

SPX Corporation (NYSE: SPW) today announced that Chris Kearney, Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer, will present at the Electrical Products Group Conference in Longboat Key, Florida on Monday, May 20, 2013 at 11:30 a.m. Eastern time. Jeremy Smeltser, Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, will also be in attendance. A live webcast of the presentation and related materials will be posted to the Investor Relations section of SPX's website (www.spx.com). The audio replay will be accessible on the website ... read more

CTIA 2013 – Booth # 5734 Telit Wireless Solutions, a leading global provider of high-quality machine-to-machine (M2M) modules, services and solutions, today announced a fast-track expansion of its m2mAIR service offerings in North ... read more