Covid-19 can trigger body-wide inflammation that eventually makes its way to the brain, impairing cognitive function. Research suggests that other viral diseases may share the same mechanism of damage.
Category: pharma & healthcare
Covid-19, Gender And Immune Response: What’s The Relationship? (Part Two)
This second installment will analyze the role of sex hormones on SARS-CoV-2 infection and sex differences in immune responses to vaccines.
Population Genetic Testing: Save Lives And Money, While Avoiding Financial Toxicity
Population genetic testing is here, and will save lives and money for employers, payers, and our health care system. But first we have to create financial toxicity safeguards for the individuals having these tests, and their family members.
U.S. Prescription Drug Pricing Doesn’t Favor The Patient: Case Of Sub-Optimal Market For Cancer Pharmaceuticals
It’s no surprise people say the healthcare system’s pricing is “rigged.” The drug supply chain is riddled with sub-optimal market features, none of which favor the patient. The blame for high drug prices and out-of-pocket spending goes beyond drug make…
U.S. Prescription Drug Market Lacks Certain Competitive Features: Case Of Biosimilars
A regularly heard talking point is that follow-on drugs, such as biosimilars and generics, will bring down prices through competition. But, they don’t invariably do so. PBMs may favor more expensive branded products over similar or even bioequivalent v…
Even Mild Covid-19 May Cause Lasting Brain Fog (Part 2)
For many people, an encounter with Covid-19 brings with it lingering cognitive
symptoms, a new study describes why and how this might be happening.
Critics Decry Drug Pricing Provisions In Inflation Reduction Act, Say They Will Stifle Innovation
Imposing rebates on list prices of drugs that exceed inflation, restructuring Medicare Part D (particularly the catastrophic phase of the outpatient drug benefit), and Medicare negotiations for certain drugs, will have a limited impact on the drug indu…
Even Mild Covid-19 May Cause Lasting Brain Fog (Part 1)
Even mild Covid-19 may worsen cognitive health. How? By triggering a strong inflammatory response that makes its way to the central nervous system, leading to overabundant activation of immune cells in the brain.
FDA May Approve First OTC Birth Control Pill In U.S.: More Novel Prescription-To-OTC Switches Could Be On Tap
FDA may soon approve the first OTC birth control pill in the U.S. And, more novel prescription-to-OTC switches could be on tap. But, the FDA’s proposed plan to facilitate more switches in new therapeutic categories lacks clarity, and it doesn’t include…
Progress In The Search For Broadly Neutralizing Monoclonal Antibodies V
Two more antibodies, COV44-62 and COV44-79, broadly neutralize a wide range of SARS-CoV-2 variants.
