SWK Holdings approved for listing on Nasdaq Capital Market

Dallas Business Journal (Health Care) 1/22 7:51A Rebecca Ayers

Dallas-based SWK Holdings Corp. has been approved for listing on the Nasdaq Capital Market. The company will start trading on Thursday under ticker symbol “SWKH.” The specialty finance firm, which is focused in the life science sector, originally...

TPG Capital invests in Houston-based management services organization

Dallas Business Journal (Health Care) 1/22 7:29A Chris Mathews

TPG Capital, the private equity arm for Fort Worth based-TPG, has invested in a Houston-based management services organization.

Form-D Friday: LKCM's investment arm raises $600M

Dallas Business Journal (Health Care) 1/17 2:15A Rebecca Ayers

Welcome back to Form D Friday, where we take a look at regulatory filings in North Texas to see which businesses and firms are raising capital for a new project, investment idea or for something else.   Although the filings don’t have many...

The future of health care and the important role of primary care

Dallas Business Journal (Health Care) 1/10 3:19P

The traditional health care system is giving way to a new value-based care model that focuses on the triple aim of better health, better care and lower costs. It’s about shifting the health care system to a model that incentivizes and emphasizes...

Deflating results of major study point to better ways to cut health care waste

Dallas Business Journal (Health Care) 1/9 12:38A Austin Frakt

The study’s results are likely to be viewed by many as a major disappointment, yet they also help guide us to what may be better strategies for cutting waste.

Crispr put to the test in first in-body gene editing trials

Dallas Business Journal (Health Care) 1/6 11:20P Hannah Kuchler in New York

Companies will seek to restore sight and cure liver condition by using technology like a drug

In the U.S., an angioplasty costs $32,000. Elsewhere? Maybe $6,400.

Dallas Business Journal (Health Care) 12/27 1:26A Margot Sanger-Katz

As politicians continue to lament the system’s expense, and more Americans struggle to pay the high and often unpredictable bills that can accompany their health problems, it’s worth looking at just how weird our prices really are relative to the...

Former Pei Wei CEO now leading Central Texas company

Dallas Business Journal (Health Care) 12/26 3:26A Will Anderson

After leading fast-casual Asian restaurant chain Pei Wei through a rebranding and spinoff from P.F. Chang's, John Hedrick has a new challenge: helping a private equity-backed dental support company maintain its fast growth.

Crisis looms in antibiotics as drugmakers go bankrupt

Dallas Business Journal (Health Care) 12/26 1:00A Andrew Jacobs

At a time when germs are growing more resistant to common antibiotics, many companies that are developing new versions of the drugs are hemorrhaging money and going out of business, gravely undermining efforts to contain the spread of deadly,...

Take an inside look at Frisco's new medical campus

Dallas Business Journal (Health Care) 12/23 3:36A David Ajamy

Two years after its initial groundbreaking, Frisco's $270 million medical campus is now officially open. The joint venture between Texas Health Resources and UT Southwestern brought a medical office component that opened on Dec. 3 and Texas...

Health law’s insurance mandate is struck down by an appeals court

Dallas Business Journal (Health Care) 12/19 12:32A Abby Goodnough

A federal appeals court Wednesday struck down a central provision of the Affordable Care Act, ruling that the requirement that people have health insurance was unconstitutional.

Gov. Abbott calls for massive medical expansion around Parkland, UT Southwestern

Dallas Business Journal (Health Care) 12/13 8:43A Bill Hethcock

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has challenged Dallas business and health care leaders to create a massive medical complex in the area around Parkland Hospital and UT Southwestern that would rival Houston’s Texas Medical Center and lead to world-changing...

Form-D Friday: Maverick Capital raises over $38M

Dallas Business Journal (Health Care) 12/13 1:52A Rebecca Ayers

Maverick Capital raises $38 million in a fund, a medical device company based in Southlake is raising another fund, and more in this week's Form-D Friday.

DMN: UT Southwestern to open new facility in RedBird Mall

Dallas Business Journal (Health Care) 12/12 8:16A Rebecca Ayers

UT Southwestern will host a new facility in south Dallas’ RedBird Mall, the Dallas Morning News reported on Thursday.  The Dallas-based institution has leased an old Sears site comprised of 150,000 square feet, and plans to transform the space...

Methodist Health System names new CEO

Dallas Business Journal (Health Care) 12/9 8:07A David Ajamy

Dallas-based Methodist Health System has named Jim Scoggin as its new CEO. Scoggin has served as interim CEO since April of this year after Stephen Mansfield retired after leading the company for 13 years. With 34-years of experience in the...