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No Matter What The FDA Decides, New Diabetes Drugs Will Still Require CV Outcomes Trials
CVOTs for diabetes drugs are here to stay.
How Walmart Beats Amazon In The Big Easy
Walmart and Ochsner Health Network in New Orleans are offering a new “accountable care plan” to employees that could be a national model to reducing costs and improving quality of care to the retailer’s U.S. employees.
The Six Ways High-Leverage Innovators Consistently Outperform the Competition
There is no long-term correlation between the amount of money a company spends on its innovation efforts and its overall financial performance. Instead, what matters is how companies use that money and other resources to create products and services th…
When Safe Drugs Become Risky: The Clinical Danger Zone
Clinical status can change unexpectedly making a safe drug potentially dangerous. Now, technology help find these changes and save lives.
New Research Field Could Save Billions For Pharmaceutical Companies And Patients
A new research field combines computational methodologies to discover biomakers for a variety of diseases and this way to improve clinical trials and maybe revive failed pharmaceutical phase two medicines.
Priority Review Vouchers Revitalizing Neglected Disease Drug Development
There’s room for cautious optimism with respect to neglected tropical disease drug development, as recently the issuance of priority review vouchers in exchange for neglected disease drug approvals has picked up considerably.
Hospitalized Or Disabled? You Can Still Vote — And Receive Federally Protected Help
If you have a disability, permanent or temporary, or you are hospitalized, your right to vote is still federally protected. So is the right to have someone help you cast your ballot.
The Internet of Medical Things Gold Rush (And My Grandfather’s Wooden Leg)
The recent Connected Health Conference featured an eclectic mix of corporations claiming cutting-edge expertise in the Internet of Medical Things (IoMT). But to me personally, the most intriguing pivot towards the IoMT future was AT&T’s prominent posit…
Transphobic Parent Activists Target Journalists With Misinformation About Pediatricians
The AAP promotes acceptance and support for transgender, gender-diverse and gender-nonconforming and questioning children. Some parents of these kids have a problem with that.
