Two Small Pharma Firms Join The Struggle To Give Women Access to OTC Birth Control Pills
Jeffrey A. SingerTheNew York Timesreports today that two small oral contraceptive makers, Cadence and HRA Pharma, have been seeking to make their birth control pills over ‐the‐counter since 2016. The Food and Drug Administration has taken five years “dialoguing” with the pharmaceutical firms but has yet to give them “clearance” to formally apply for the switch. TheTimes article cites an FDA spokesperson as saying the agency hopes to reach a decision within 10 months of the companies submitting a formal application.As I have writtenhere, birth control pills are available over ‐the‐...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - December 14, 2021 Category: American Health Authors: Jeffrey A. Singer Source Type: blogs
The HIV epidemic: social and historical perspectives
Because I have lectured about this subject I have a lot of graphics, but I ' ll try to keep it reasonable. The first report of what turned out to be AIDS was published in CDC ' s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report on June 5, 1981. It reported on five cases ofPneumocystiscariniipneumonia in young men in California. This is a microbe that only causes disease in people with weakened immune systems. After at first calling the mystery disease Gay Related Immunodeficiency Disease, or GRID, epidemiologists quickly renamed it Acquired immune Deficiency Syndrome, or AIDS. It was particularly prevalent among gay men i...
Source: Stayin' Alive - December 9, 2021 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
Insights From Our New E-book, The Medical Futurist ’s Hype Cycle Of The TOP 50 Digital Health Trends
As a researcher, I have always lived for the moments when I had to see a whole process and analyze the small details at once. Looking into the roots and origins of trends and also seeing the possible outcomes are rewarding in a way that I need to work with data (my passion), my analytical skills and my intuitions.
Besides, I’ve always loved challenging myself in order to be better – that is, for example, why I find my participation in undertakings like the Good Judgement Project (GJP) important.
So when we at The Medical Futurist decided to create a trend analysis of digital health trajectories, we ignited ...
Source: The Medical Futurist - December 2, 2021 Category: Information Technology Authors: Judit Kuszkó Tags: TMF Covid-19 Lifestyle medicine 3D Printing Artificial Intelligence in Medicine Augmented Reality Digital Health Research Future of Medicine Future of Pharma Genomics Health Insurance Health Sensors & Trackers Healthcare Design M Source Type: blogs
The Macro View – Health, Economics, and Politics and the Big Picture. What I Am Watching Here And Abroad.
December 02 2021 Edition ----- We are now a little under a week into the Omicron COVID-19 variant outbreak. Hopefully in a few more weeks we will know where we are and how worried we should all be. All over border are going up and travel is closing down.Thus far it really does seem to transmit rather well and most other issues fall into the unknown basket
Otherwise in the US Jay Powell has been re-appointed as Chairman of their Central Bank – hoping for stability as the recovery continues. In the UK summer is in full swing as is the fight with France over the numbers crossing the English Channel! In OZ we have se...
Source: Australian Health Information Technology - December 2, 2021 Category: Information Technology Authors: Dr David G More MB PhD Source Type: blogs
Let ’s Thank our unique Human Brains and Minds with a few family-friendly riddles
Q: What is a sure way of sustaining a friendly and sociable feeling towards the whole world?
A: Consort only with strangers.
Q: What beats regretting what you said?
A: Treasuring what you DIDN’T say.
Q: What does, “you must come and visit us sometime!” actually mean?
A: Nothing at all. However, if you take it seriously, be ready for the what-are-you-doing-here welcome!
– Keith Perreur-Lloyd is an Anglo-French composer and musician currently living in Spain. You can learn more about his classical compositions here.
More fun ways to challenge our brains and minds:
25 fun Brain Teasers an...
Source: SharpBrains - November 25, 2021 Category: Neuroscience Authors: Keith Perreur-Lloyd Tags: Brain Teasers family-friendly riddles Thanksgiving Source Type: blogs
Disposable Lives: COVID-19, Vaccines, and the Uprising
Matiangai V. S. Sirleaf (University of Maryland), Disposable Lives: COVID-19, Vaccines, and the Uprising, 121 Columbia L. Rev. Forum. (2021): Two French doctors appeared on television and publicly discussed potentially utilizing African subjects in experimental trials for a tuberculosis vaccine... (Source: HealthLawProf Blog)
Source: HealthLawProf Blog - November 12, 2021 Category: Medical Law Authors: Katharine Van Tassel Source Type: blogs
The Macro View – Health, Economics, and Politics and the Big Picture. What I Am Watching Here And Abroad.
November 11 2021 Edition ----- In the US the big news is mostly political with the Democrats losing the Governorship of Virginia and then Biden passing a huge one trillion dollar infrastructure bill. Seems like one all at present! The larger spending bill will be harder!
In the UK the COP26 conference is ending, with some hopeful signs.. Hard to be sure just yet how much has actually been achieved. The COVID situation seem to be a little better! In OZ we have ScoMo back and working hard to ‘move on’ from his overseas visit and the fall-out with France! Again how it goes may take years to settle down. There is also so...
Source: Australian Health Information Technology - November 11, 2021 Category: Information Technology Authors: Dr David G More MB PhD Source Type: blogs
Philips to Expand Its Cardiac Diagnostics and Monitoring Portfolio With the Acquisition of Cardiologs
Royal Philips (NYSE: PHG; AEX: PHIA), a global leader in health technology, today announced that it has signed an agreement to acquire Cardiologs, a France-based medical technology company focused on transforming cardiac diagnostics using artificial intelligence (AI) and cloud technology. Cardiologs will further strengthen Philips’ cardiac monitoring and diagnostics offering with innovative software technology, electrocardiogram (ECG) […] (Source: EMR and HIPAA)
Source: EMR and HIPAA - November 10, 2021 Category: Information Technology Authors: Healthcare IT News Tags: Health IT Company Healthcare IT Telemedicine and Remote Monitoring AEX: PHIA BioTelemetry Cardiac Monitoring Cardiologs ECG Health IT Acquisitions Healthcare AI Healthcare Wearables Medical Devices NYSE: PHG Philips Roy Jakobs Source Type: blogs
A Handheld X-Ray System: Interview with Evan Ruff and Gregory Kolovich, Co-Founders of OXOS Medical
OXOS Medical, a medtech spin-off out of Georgia Tech, has created the Micro C, an FDA cleared handheld X-ray system that is designed to image the distal extremities, from the shoulder to the hand and from the knee to the foot. The device is intended to prevent situations in which clinicians have to handle and operate large machinery to perform simple X-ray imaging of small bones in the extremities, and allows them to conduct imaging right at the point of care.
The device can be deployed during surgical procedures, and allows surgeons to more easily capture images that could be difficult to obtain using large, fixed equi...
Source: Medgadget - November 8, 2021 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Conn Hastings Tags: Exclusive Orthopedic Surgery Radiology Source Type: blogs
A Handheld X-Ray System: Interview with Evan Ruff and Gregory Kolovich, Co-Founders of OXOS Medical
OXOS Medical, a medtech spin-off out of Georgia Tech, has created the Micro C, an FDA cleared handheld X-ray system that is designed to image the distal extremities, from the shoulder to the hand and from the knee to the foot. The device is intended to prevent situations in which clinicians have to handle and operate large machinery to perform simple X-ray imaging of small bones in the extremities, and allows them to conduct imaging right at the point of care.
The device can be deployed during surgical procedures, and allows surgeons to more easily capture images that could be difficult to obtain using large, fixed equi...
Source: Medgadget - November 8, 2021 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Conn Hastings Tags: Exclusive Orthopedic Surgery Radiology Source Type: blogs
The Macro View – Health, Economics, and Politics and the Big Picture. What I Am Watching Here And Abroad.
November 04 2021 Edition ----- The big news this week is the outcome of the G20 meeting in Rome and the initial outcomes from the COPS26 meeting in Glasgow. The G20 has been rather overshadowed by the Morrison / Macron relationship and how Australia has treated France rather poorly to say the least. As the week draws to a close this issue is getting more and more serious!
On COPS26 optimism is waning and it is clear that the final outcomes will be less than was hoped a even a few months ago, but some progress will be made it seems. Good that!
Domestically it is now clear that this current Government has no interest in ...
Source: Australian Health Information Technology - November 4, 2021 Category: Information Technology Authors: Dr David G More MB PhD Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, November 1st 2021
In conclusion, mitophagy pathways play an important role in maintaining physiological homeostasis, are involved in the mechanisms of aging and neurodegenerative disorders, and represent promising targets for the development of potential therapeutic agents aimed at regulating mitochondria quality control in neurons and glial cells. A significant number of molecules that induce or inhibit mitophagy are currently under consideration, which may be useful for testing hypotheses or developing drugs for the treatment of neurodegenerative diseases. The validation of promising drugs in animal and cell models, including neurons and ...
Source: Fight Aging! - October 31, 2021 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
Big Tech and Antitrust
Peter Van Doren and David KempInternal Facebook documents recently released by whistleblower Frances Haugen, and her subsequent Senate testimony, have reignited the discussion about big tech companies and antitrust. Over the past few years, politicians as disparate as Senator Elizabeth Warren and former President Donald Trump have complained about the supposed monopoly power of companies like Facebook, Google, Amazon, and Apple. Some have interpreted information in the leaked Facebook documents as a loss for the social media company in its battle against antitrust regulators; aPoliticoarticle earlier this week declared tha...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - October 29, 2021 Category: American Health Authors: Peter Van Doren, David Kemp Source Type: blogs
What's new in midwifery - 27th October 2021 - research
Two pieces of research you might need to know about:A French study of hypertensive disorders of pregnancy, reporting data from the national CONCEPTION (Cohort of Cardiovascular Diseases in Pregnancy) study.And astudy from Cameroon of antibiotics to prevent peripartum infection. (Source: Browsing)
Source: Browsing - October 27, 2021 Category: Databases & Libraries Tags: midwifery Source Type: blogs
Merck, GlaxoSmithKline, AbbVie, Sanofi & Bristol Myers Squibb: Big Pharma ’s Extending Digital Health Reaches
A few weeks ago, we kickstarted a new series of articles contemplating the moves of pharmaceutical heavyweights in the digital health arena. The first batch of companies, Johnson & Johnson, Pfizer, Bayer and Novartis, seem to have some interest in remote healthcare solutions and DTx.
In this second article, we will explore which trends pharma giants Merck, GlaxoSmithKline, AbbVie, Sanofi and Bristol Myers Squibb are eyeing.
Merck: big tech-friendly
A big pharma company itself, Germany’s Merck hasn’t shied from teaming up with big tech companies in recent years as it aims to make a lasting footpri...
Source: The Medical Futurist - October 26, 2021 Category: Information Technology Authors: Pranavsingh Dhunnoo Tags: Artificial Intelligence in Medicine Biotechnology Future of Medicine Future of Pharma Health Sensors & Trackers Personalized Medicine Portable Medical Diagnostics Security & Privacy pharmaceutics 23andme philips big pharma Merck Source Type: blogs
