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Relative importance of pharmaceuticals on health outcomes: 1990-2015

Healthcare ECONOMIST

reduced smoking rates) is having an impact, but another key key question is, what is medical technologies are driving these gains? Is it new surgical techniques, better diagnostics, improved medical devices, or new pharmaceuticals? Across all 8 diseases 56% of the relative value came from pharmaceuticals.

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SoundHealth Launches First-Ever Real-Time Personalized Allergy Forecast

HIT Consultant

The wearable utilizes advanced Acoustic Resonance Therapy (ART) to deliver a non-pharmaceutical treatment for rhinitis, providing relief that is comparable to or better than nasal corticosteroids, without known side effects. What You Should Know: – SoundHealth, Inc.

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Philips Appoints Charlotte Hanneman as New CFO, Succeeding Abhijit Bhattacharya

HIT Consultant

Hanneman brings over 20 years of experience in the MedTech and pharmaceutical industries. She joins Philips from Stryker, a global medical technology company, where she currently serves as Controller and Head of Financial Planning & Analysis. Hanneman’s Bio/Background Ms. Prior to Stryker, Ms.

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Honeywell, Salesforce Partner to Improve Outcomes in Life Sciences

HIT Consultant

– The platform—which includes Honeywell’s TrackWise Quality , Salesforce Life Sciences Cloud , Agentforce, and other solutions—will help pharmaceutical and medical technology companies deliver critical medications and healthcare devices to patients more quickly, safely, and affordably.

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Quantifying the Long-Run Economic and Health Impact of Reduced Intellectual Property Protections for New Drugs

Healthcare ECONOMIST

Some policymakers have called for weakening of intellectual property protections for vaccines and other pharmaceutical products, with the aim to reduce the price and improve access to existing medical technologies, particularly in Eastern Europe and developing countries. The abstract is below.

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Can Artificial Intelligence Replicate The Human Touch in Healthcare Provision?

HIT Consultant

AI also has the potential to identify, and even design, up to 50 new therapeutic drugs in the next decade, representing a $ 50 billion opportunity for the global pharmaceutical industry, with a 20-40% reduction in pre-clinical costs. IvorIvor has been in a candidate search for more than 30 years.

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Reclaiming Global Public Health

Bill Of Health

Dose shortages elevated the role of pharmaceutical executives. Pharmaceutical corporations hoarded technology that could have helped alleviate scarcity. At the end of 2021, Thomas Cueni, the head of an international pharmaceutical trade association, acknowledged that everyone was “ashamed and embarrassed” by the inequity. “We