Miami Lakes health care company to be acquired by Blackstone subsidiary for $910M

http://www.bizjournals.com/southflorida/news/2015/07/07/miami-lakes-health-care-company-to-be-acquired-by.html?ana=e_du_wknd&s=article_du&ed=2015-07-11&u=FAuoHGaGEPdmk4X6khnaiw045b16af&t=1436633431

House votes to speed drug approval process, increase medical research funding

http://www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/news/news-wire/2015/07/10/house-votes-to-speed-drug-approval-process.html?iana=ind_health

The 21st Century Cures Act aims to speed the development of new drugs and medical devices.

Theranos strikes deal with Capital BlueCross, lands on East Coast

http://www.healthcarefinancenews.com/news/theranos-strikes-deal-capital-bluecross-lands-east-coast?mkt_tok=3RkMMJWWfF9wsRohuq3KZKXonjHpfsX57u4rUa6zlMI%2F0ER3fOvrPUfGjI4GSsBqI%2BSLDwEYGJlv6SgFQ7LHMbpszbgPUhM%3D

The testing company that could upend America's diagnostics market will partner with Capital BlueCross in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, to bring the company's new direct-to-consumer blood testing options to the insurer's 1.3 million members.

The diagnostics disruptor and an insurer of a 1.3 million are taking affordable lab tests directly to patients.

Healthcare Workers: Why They Come to Work Sick

http://www.healthline.com/health-news/why-healthcare-workers-come-to-work-sick-070615?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_term=Healthcare%20Dive&utm_campaign=Issue%3A%202015-07-07%20Healthcare%20Dive#1

Healthcare Workers

A survey explores the reasons why healthcare workers do their job when they’re sick and expose patients to their illnesses.

Superbug threat prompts West to revisit Soviet-era virus therapy

http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/07/02/us-health-bacteriophages-insight-idUSKCN0PC1FO20150702

Two plates coated with drug-resistant bacteria with a mutation called NDM 1 and then exposed to various antibiotics are seen at the Health Protection Agency in north London, Britain in this March 9, 2011 file photo. REUTERS/Suzanne Plunkett/Files

Two plates coated with drug-resistant bacteria with a mutation called NDM 1 and then exposed to various antibiotics are seen at the Health Protection Agency in north London, Britain in this March 9, 2011 file photo.

The U.S. just recorded its first confirmed measles death in 12 years

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/to-your-health/wp/2015/07/02/the-u-s-just-recorded-its-first-confirmed-measles-death-in-12-years/

The ultrastructural appearance of a single virus particle of the measles virus.