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HealthMedia Hires New Product Development Leader to Meet Expanding Customer Needs

Ann Arbor, MICH. – March 8, 2010 – HealthMedia®, a Johnson & Johnson company and part of the Wellness & Prevention business, announced that Bill Needham is its new Vice President of Product Development. HealthMedia, Inc. is the pioneer in combining advanced technology and behavioral science to deliver web-based Digital Health Coaching programs to health plans and employers.

Needham will provide overall leadership, strategy, and direction to HealthMedia’s Product Development organization and

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Shionogi Enters Into Exclusive Agreement with Quatrx

Osaka, Japan, Atlanta, GA and Ann Arbor, MI— Shionogi & Co., Ltd. and QuatRx Pharmaceuticals Company, a privately-held pharmaceutical company, today announced that they have entered into a worldwide license agreement to develop and market ospemifene, a selective estrogen receptor modulator (“SERM”). Under the terms of this agreement, Shionogi will have worldwide marketing rights to ospemifene. QuatRx will receive an up-front payment of $25 million and is eligible to receive in excess

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New Analysis Calls for State and Federal Action to Track Childhood Obesity

WASHINGTON, D.C. – A report published today in the journal Health Affairs calls for increased body mass index surveillance as a tool to combat the childhood obesity epidemic and urges state and federal action to implement effective BMI surveillance systems nationwide.  The paper was co-authored by Altarum Institute researchers Matt Longjohn and Amy Sheon, co-project directors of Altarum’s Childhood Obesity Prevention Mission Project, and by childhood obesity experts from Arkansas, California, and Illinois.

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University of Michigan Health System Expands Eye Care, Unites Diabetes Researchers

ANN ARBOR, Mich., Feb. 26 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — On March 1, the first eye patients will enter an innovative new $132 million facility that expands the University of Michigan Health System’s capacity for eye care, research and education, and unites diabetes researchers as they work to accelerate the search for a cure and prevention of diabetes. 

The Brehm Tower at the W.K. Kellogg Eye Center Complex includes 230,000 square feet spanning eight stories and makes a

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Altarum Institute Names University of Michigan’s Bob Kelch as New Board Chair

Ann Arbor, Mich. – Ann Arbor-based Altarum Institute, a nonprofit health systems research and consulting organization, announced the selection of Dr. Bob Kelch as the Institute’s new chairman of the board of trustees.  Kelch, who will serve a three-year term with Altarum, is currently the executive vice president for medical affairs emeritus and special advisor to the executive vice president for medical affairs at the University of Michigan.

“We are extremely fortunate to have Dr. Kelch

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HealthMedia Offers the First Complete Hip Health Coaching Program

ANN ARBOR, MICH. – February 17, 2010 – HealthMedia, Inc., a Johnson & Johnson company, has introduced HealthMedia® STRIDE™, an integrated, online Digital Health Coaching program that helps with the management of all phases of hip health. HealthMedia, Inc. is the pioneer in combining advanced technology and behavioral science to deliver Digital Health Coaching programs.

For the first time, one solution addresses a broad range of hip health issues. HealthMedia® STRIDE™ offers a comprehensive approach

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