Laboratory for Advanced Medicine Inc. has raised $86 million and hired a chief executive to push new blood tests for cancer toward the market.  Irvine, Calif.-based LAM has named Kenneth Chahine, a former Ancestry.com executive, to lead the company, which is competing with several venture-backed startups in a new market for blood tests that detect […]

Could a simple eye exam detect signs of Alzheimer’s disease? Researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital and Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston have begun a study to find out. Dr. Gad Marshall, associate professor of neurology at Harvard Medical School, is testing a special retina camera and software developed by a Canadian startup to determine whether […]

French drugmaker Sanofi recently announced a recall of over-the-counter Zantac, the widely used acid reflux medication, in the U.S. and Canada over concerns of possible contamination from a probable carcinogen. This action followed recalls by manufacturers and retailers of generic versions of the drug, called ranitidine. The recalls have prompted questions about whether the drugs’ […]