League of American Bicyclists release fact-, stat- and graphic-packed 2018 Benchmarking Report on walking and cycling in the U.S. It’s the sixth – and biggest – edition of the report.
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Does The NIH Deserve A Piece Of Biopharma’s Profits?
Decades ago, the U.S. believed that investments in research were important for the public good – for our defense, for our health and for our economic prosperity.
Can Beer Before Wine Really Minimize A Hangover? New Study Gets People Drunk To Find Out
Beer before wine? Or wine before beer? Almost 300 people volunteered to get drunk for science to find out whether the order in which you drink alcoholic beverages affects the severity of your hangover.
Pressure Mounts On Walgreens To Kick Tobacco Sales Habit
Walgreens will meet with the Food and Drug Administration to discuss “violative tobacco sales to youth” at a time public health advocates and some shareholders want them to stop tobacco sales altogether.
New York Biotech Raises $61 Million To Keep Cancer Cells Dormant, Bucking Conventional Treatments
Cancer is thought of as a disease of uncontrolled growth. But over the past few decades scientists have been learning more about cancer cells that behave in a very uncancerlike way.
Why The Next Evolution Of Global Health Care Will Be Blockchain-Based
This distributed ledger technology can improve security, efficiency, and the coordination of health care systems as an answer to aging legacy infrastructures.
How can we use tech to attract the next generation of carers?
With a chronic shortage of care staff, we need to make sure tech works with and for the sector – both those that work in it and those that it supports.
This New Program Will Pay $75,000 Of Your Student Loans
This new program will repay your student loans.
Pouring Billions Of Dollars Into Marketing Of Drugs
At last tally, in 2016, the biopharmaceutical industry spent $30 billion on medical marketing, about a third of which was DTC advertising. The important question this begs is whether more marketing leads to a better informed patient or consumer.
Humana-Walgreens Clinic Venture Boosts Medicare Enrollment
Humana’s joint venture with Walgreens is helping boost the health insurer’s enrollment in Medicare Advantage, the fast-growing coverage for U.S. seniors.
