Business | Smart Benefits: Cures Act Remedies A Small Business Condition

The 21st Century Cures Act, just signed into law by President Obama, is a broad health bill but tucked in it is a section that benefits small businesses by allowing them to use HRAs to reimburse employees who buy their own insurance. Starting January 1, an employer with fewer than 50 full-time employees can offer stand-alone HRAs and fund them by reimbursing employees for their premiums used to purchase individual health insurance.

Izzy Does It

Since July, Izzy Cox has battled pancreatic cancer. A staple in Austin clubs since migrating from Montreal this decade, the anarchist songbird’s presence has been sorely missed as she undergoes a wrath of surgeries and chemotherapy.

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Since July, Izzy Cox has battled pancreatic cancer. A staple in Austin clubs since migrating from Montreal this decade, the anarchist songbird’s presence has been sorely missed as she undergoes a wrath of surgeries and chemotherapy.

BRIEF-JVM to buy back shares at 2 bln won

Gilead says Japan’s Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare approves co’s Vemlidy for patients with chronic Hepatitis B virus infection * Gilead – Japan’s Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare approves Gilead’s Vemlidy for patients with chronic Hepatitis B virus infection Source text for Eikon: Further company coverage:

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A Once-Daily Treatment that Demonstrated Comparable Efficacy with Improved Renal and Bone Laboratory Safety Parameters Compared to Tenofovir Disoproxil Fumarate — )–Gilead Sciences, Inc. today announced that the Japanese Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare has approved Vemlidy 25mg, a once-daily treatment for suppression of viral replication in chronic hepatitis B patients with evidence of hepatitis B virus replication and abnormal liver function. Vemlidy is a novel targeted prodrug of tenofovir that has demonstrated antiviral efficacy similar to and at a dose less than one-tenth that of tenofovir disoproxil fumarate 300mg.

Landmark Alzheimer’s prevention trial to evaluate third drug

An international team led by Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis has selected a third investigational drug to be tested in a worldwide clinical trial – already underway – aimed at finding treatments to prevent Alzheimer’s disease. The third drug is being developed by Janssen Research & Development, LLC, in New Jersey.