When it comes to Remdesivir, WHO Knows
(Source: drugwonks.com Blog)
Source: drugwonks.com Blog - January 21, 2022 Category: Pharmaceuticals Source Type: blogs
An FDA Regulator's View of the Issues with the FDA in the Matter of Treating Aging
A charitable view of the FDA is that it is populated by well-meaning people who happen to believe that (a) any cost in lives, time, and funds is worth it in order to prevent harm by commission, and (b) zero risk is a possible goal in medicine. The Hippocratic Oath Enforcement Agency, if you like. There are much less charitable views, given the present state of regulatory capture that dramatically raises costs and slows development, as well as the invisible graveyard of countless lives lost to the absence of medical technologies that would otherwise exist and be widely available at reasonable prices.
There is no esta...
Source: Fight Aging! - January 21, 2022 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Daily News Source Type: blogs
Breaking down the real cost of the opioid epidemic
I have been writing of late about recent developments in the opioid saga. My first piece talked about a fresh decision in California’s seven-year-old The People vs. opioid pharma case. The next one focused on how the middle-man, distributors, contributed to the epidemic’s picture. Now, I wanted to write an overarching piece hitting some astoundingRead more …Breaking down the real cost of the opioid epidemic originally appeared inKevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - January 20, 2022 Category: General Medicine Authors: < span itemprop="author" > < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/rebecca-thaxton" rel="tag" > Rebecca Thaxton, MD < /a > < /span > Tags: Physician Pain Management Source Type: blogs
The Anatomy Of A Good Digital Health Company
Transparent communication, clinically-validated technologies, addressing real-life clinical needs; these might sound like no-brainer components to a digital health company since they are working in the healthcare sector. It is also a rapidly expanding one where investments were heavily channeled into during the pandemic.
However, some estimate that 90% of digital health startups will go bust or be ‘acqui-hired’ within a few years of being founded. If digital health represents the future of medicine and healthcare, it is important to understand why this is the case.
We previously dissected the reasons as to ...
Source: The Medical Futurist - January 20, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Pranavsingh Dhunnoo Tags: Artificial Intelligence in Medicine Bioethics Digital Health Research E-Patients Future of Medicine Future of Pharma Personalized Medicine Portable Medical Diagnostics Science Fiction Telemedicine & Smartphones clinical trial communi Source Type: blogs
Best Practices In Digital Health: 9 Keys To Build A Future-Ready Organisation
Transparent communication, clinically-validated technologies, addressing real-life clinical needs; these might sound like no-brainer components to a digital health company since they are working in the healthcare sector. It is also a rapidly expanding one where investments were heavily channeled into during the pandemic.
However, some estimate that 90% of digital health startups will go bust or be ‘acqui-hired’ within a few years of being founded. If digital health represents the future of medicine and healthcare, it is important to understand why this is the case.
We previously dissected the reasons as to ...
Source: The Medical Futurist - January 20, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Pranavsingh Dhunnoo Tags: Artificial Intelligence in Medicine Bioethics Digital Health Research E-Patients Future of Medicine Future of Pharma Personalized Medicine Portable Medical Diagnostics Science Fiction Telemedicine & Smartphones clinical trial communi Source Type: blogs
NFT In Healthcare: How Patients Could Monetise Their Health Data
This article will walk you through the basics of NFTs, how they can further empower patients in the digital health age, as well as raise concerns pertinent to the technology.
What is an NFT?
Crowning it as the Word of the Year for 2021, dictionary publisher Collins defines a non-fungible token as “a unique digital certificate, registered in a blockchain, that is used to record ownership of an asset such as an artwork or a collectible.” Creating or “mining” NFT transactions leverage blockchain technology, akin to what cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin are based on.
In short, the technology relies ...
Source: The Medical Futurist - January 13, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Pranavsingh Dhunnoo Tags: Forecast Biotechnology E-Patients Future of Medicine Future of Pharma Healthcare Design Security & Privacy genetics blockchain patient information NFT Source Type: blogs
5 COVID-19 Discussions That Will Dominate 2022
Discussions That Will Dominate 2022 appeared first on The Medical Futurist. (Source: The Medical Futurist)
Source: The Medical Futurist - January 11, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Pranavsingh Dhunnoo Tags: Covid-19 Forecast Artificial Intelligence in Medicine Science Fiction vaccination pandemic vaccine pfizer fatigue booster Source Type: blogs
Rooting For Schumpter ’ s Gale
By KIM BELLARD
Not familiar with Schumpeter’s gale? You may be more familiar with the term “creative destruction.” Schumpeter’s “gale of creative destruction” is the inevitable “process of industrial mutation that continuously revolutionizes the economic structure from within, incessantly destroying the old one, incessantly creating a new one.”
We need a Schumpeter’s gale in healthcare.
What made me think of this was the news that Tik Tok became the most popular internet site in the world, surpassing even Google. It reminded me that things sometimes do change; perhaps there is so...
Source: The Health Care Blog - December 28, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Ryan Bose-Roy Tags: Health Tech big tech Healthcare Healthcare system Schumpeter tiktok Source Type: blogs
New Wearable Detects Respiratory Exacerbations: Interview with Dr. Maria Artunduaga, CEO of Respira Labs
Respira Labs, a medtech company based in California, created the Sylvee sensor, an adhesive patch that the user wears on their lower rib cage, and which monitors respiratory health. The device works through acoustic resonance, whereby it emits sound into the chest cavity and analyzes the echoed vibrations.
The measured data provide information on lung air volume and correlate with the amount of air that is trapped in the lungs, which can offer a warning sign that a respiratory exacerbation is possible. With many COVID-19 patients experiencing impaired breathing for sustained periods after their initial infection has sub...
Source: Medgadget - December 21, 2021 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Conn Hastings Tags: Cardiology Diagnostics Exclusive Medicine respiralabs Source Type: blogs
Cardiac failure Info desk : Diuretics never save lives, while Dapagliflozin does it in style !
An Interaction in IMCU
How is Mr. K, who was shifted from ward 102 ?
Yes sir, It was acute decompensated LV failure, Patient was in impending pulmonary edema. In fact, he developed. He is fine now,
How did he come around? He was too sick I thought.
“Just pushed 60 mg Frusemide IV, luckily he also had good BP, so with an infusion of NTG, titrated Carvedilol a little bit, he came out nicely. I guess it is Ischemic DCM”.
“Good, You have done a nice job”
“Don’t make me embarrassed sir. It is such a routine in our ER.
To make him curious, I asked “Which drug do you think that saved hi...
Source: Dr.S.Venkatesan MD - December 17, 2021 Category: Cardiology Authors: dr s venkatesan Tags: cardiac failure Cardiology -guidelines cardiology -Therapeutics cardiology wisdom cardiology-ethics Cardiology-Land mark studies Ethics in Medicine evidence based cardiology acc aha esc guidelines on heart failure bumatanide Cardiac fa Source Type: blogs
Cardiac failure Info desk :Diuretics never save lives, while Dapagliflozin does it in style !
An Interaction in IMCU
How is Mr. K, who was shifted from ward 102 ?
Yes sir, It was acute decompensated LV failure, Patient was in impending pulmonary edema. In fact, he developed. He is fine now,
How did he come around? He was too sick I thought.
“Just pushed 60 mg Frusemide IV, luckily he also had good BP, so with an infusion of NTG, titrated Carvedilol a little bit, he came out nicely. I guess it is Ischemic DCM”.
“Good, You have done a nice job”
“Don’t make me embarrassed sir. It is such a routine in our ER.
To make him curious, I asked “Which drug do you think that s...
Source: Dr.S.Venkatesan MD - December 17, 2021 Category: Cardiology Authors: dr s venkatesan Tags: cardiac failure Cardiology -guidelines cardiology -Therapeutics cardiology wisdom cardiology-ethics Cardiology-Land mark studies Ethics in Medicine evidence based cardiology acc aha esc guidelines on heart failure bumatanide Cardiac fa Source Type: blogs
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
Don ’t Look to the Build Back Better Act to Reduce Insulin Prices
Michael F. CannonThe House ‐passedBuild Back Better Act (BBBA) purports to make insulin more affordable. As Cato adjunct scholarsCharlie Silver andDavid Hyman write inOvercharged: Why Americans Pay Too Much for Health Care:Insulin is a drug used by millions of Americans afflicted with diabetes. It is off‐patent and made by three companies, so it should be reasonably priced. It is not. The past two decades have seen stunning price increases. Short‐acting insulin, which cost about $21 in 1996, went for about $275 in 20 17. And…the prices went up in lockstep, even though there were two companies making sh...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - December 13, 2021 Category: American Health Authors: Michael F. Cannon Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, December 13th 2021
In conclusion, there is a good amount of pre-clinical and clinical data showing a strong positive correlation between reduction of senescent cells frequencies and functional improvement of skin. Whether senescence of skin cells makes a significant causal contribution to skin ageing can still not be conclusively decided, however. Nonetheless, there is strong evidence existing today to assume that better understanding of cell senescence in skin may lead to a breakthrough in interventions into skin ageing.
Isomerization of Tau May be Involved in Alzheimer's Disease
https://www.fightaging.org/archives/2021/12/isom...
Source: Fight Aging! - December 12, 2021 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
More Signs of Growth in Venture Capital for the Longevity Industry
Venture funds dedicated to the longevity industry are growing in size and number. While all too much of the industry is focused on approaches, such as the development of calorie restriction mimetic drugs, that cannot possible produce sizable effects on human life span, and which are unlikely to even be as beneficial as regular exercise, a rising tide lifts all boats. Seed funding is easy to find for most ventures, given the broad support for slowing and reversing aging present in many wealthy circles, but it remains the case that raising a series A round of $10M or more is more challenging than it should be. It requires ta...
Source: Fight Aging! - December 9, 2021 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Daily News Source Type: blogs
