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Thousand Oaks company gives paraplegics mobility

By   /  Friday, October 9th, 2015  /  East Ventura County, Health Care & Life Science, Latest news, Small Business, Top Stories  /  Comments Off on Thousand Oaks company gives paraplegics mobility

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U.K. crackdown sinks Sientra stock price

By   /  Friday, October 2nd, 2015  /  Health Care & Life Science, Latest news, Top Stories, Tri-County Public Companies  /  Comments Off on U.K. crackdown sinks Sientra stock price

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Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital finds buyer for outpatient surgery center

By   /  Monday, September 28th, 2015  /  Health Care & Life Science, Latest news, South Coast  /  Comments Off on Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital finds buyer for outpatient surgery center

Cottage Health Systems and Sansum Clinic moved a step closer to their proposed merger as Cottage found a potential buyer for its Santa Barbara Outpatient Surgery Center, Cottage announced Sept. 28. Cottage tasked New York-based investment banking firm Cain Brothers & Co. to find a possible suitor and they came up with United Surgical Partners International, a Read More →

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European regulators have good news for Amgen on cancer drugs

By   /  Friday, September 25th, 2015  /  Health Care & Life Science, Latest news, Technology, Tri-County Public Companies  /  Comments Off on European regulators have good news for Amgen on cancer drugs

One of the world’s most expensive cancer drugs got conditional approval from European regulators on Sept. 25. Europeans granted Thousand Oaks-based Amgen conditional approval of its rare blood cancer drug Blincyto and gave a positive evaluation of Amgen’s multiple-myeloma drug Kyprolis. Blincyto is an immunotherapy that is designed to treat a rare form of leukemia Read More →

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Stockholders sue Goleta-based Sientra after shares slide

By   /  Friday, September 25th, 2015  /  Health Care & Life Science, Latest news, Top Stories, Tri-County Public Companies  /  Comments Off on Stockholders sue Goleta-based Sientra after shares slide

Sientra’s shares nosedived more than 52 percent on Sept. 24 and several law firms around the country announced on Sept. 25 investigations into possible violations of federal securities laws. On Sept. 23, the Goleta-based breast implant manufacturer sold 3 million new shares in a public offering. The offering raised $66 million for the company before Read More →

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St. John’s Pleasant Valley Hospital in Camarillo building new tower

By   /  Thursday, September 24th, 2015  /  Health Care & Life Science, Latest news  /  Comments Off on St. John’s Pleasant Valley Hospital in Camarillo building new tower

St. John’s Pleasant Valley Hospital in Camarillo will hold a groundbreaking ceremony at 3:30 p.m. Sept. 24 for a three-story, 75,000-square-foot tower. The $80 million addition, which will be attached to the emergency department, will occupy the plot of land where the old emergency department parking lot now sits. The first floor of the new Read More →

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Amgen cancer drug Kyprolis to get expedited review from FDA

By   /  Friday, September 18th, 2015  /  Health Care & Life Science, Latest news, Tri-County Public Companies  /  Comments Off on Amgen cancer drug Kyprolis to get expedited review from FDA

An experimental multiple myeloma treatment using Amgen’s Kyprolis will get an expedited review from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. The FDA said it will use an expedited review process to review a multiple-myeloma treatment using Kyprolis and the genric drug dexamethasone. On July 23, Amgen submitted additional data to the FDA which compared this Read More →