A Little mTOR Triumphalism
It's always good to listen to viewpoints that you happen to disagree with. This is why I pay attention to research strategies and researchers informed by programmed aging theories such as the hyperfunction hypothesis that builds on antagonistic pleiotropy. In this view aging is the consequence of various developmental processes running off the rails, colliding, and fighting one another along the way, producing dysregulation and damage. This is programmed in the sense that it is an inevitable consequence of the way in which the many biological systems evolved to perform in early life. Thus evolved programs cause accumulatio...
Source: Fight Aging! - April 17, 2015 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Medicine, Biotech, Research Source Type: blogs
U.S. Spent $374 Billion on Prescription Drugs Last Year, Up 13%; Increase Largely Due To Hep C Cures and Limited Generic Competition
The U.S. healthcare system spent $373.9 billion on prescription drugs in 2014, up 13.1 percent from the year before, and the highest rate of spending growth since 2001, according to a report by IMS Institute for Healthcare Informatics.
View the full report, including IMS video commentary here.
A number of factors point to the fact that this dramatic increase is not so much a trend, but an anomaly.
"2014 was a remarkable year," Murray Aitken, executive director of the IMS Institute. "We're probably not going to see it again."
Last year saw the FDA approve a near-record 42 novel medicines, including 18 for rare disease...
Source: Policy and Medicine - April 15, 2015 Category: American Health Authors: Thomas Sullivan Source Type: blogs
The Complex Effects Of The FDA’s Proposal To Regulate Laboratory-Developed Tests
Editor’s note: This post is part of a series stemming from the Third Annual Health Law Year in P/Review event held at Harvard Law School on Friday, January 30, 2015. The conference brought together leading experts to review major developments in health law over the previous year, and preview what is to come. A full agenda and links to video recordings of the panels are here.
Last fall, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) finally took steps toward an action that it had been publicly considering for over four years: the regulation of laboratory-developed tests (LDTs). The FDA defines LDTs as tests which are “desig...
Source: Health Affairs Blog - April 10, 2015 Category: Health Management Authors: Rachel Sachs Tags: All Categories Business of Health Care Health Law Pharma Policy Reform Research Source Type: blogs
NIHCM Health Care Digital Media Award: the Finalists.
Thanks to NIHCM for including “Obamacare’s Victims” parts 1 and 2 on the list (see below for a brief description of this two-part post) , and congratulations to all of the finalists.
The award recognizes excellence in digital media that improves understanding of health care topics.A $10,000 prize will be presented to the winner at a dinner in Washington, DC on June 1, 2015.
I urge everyone to read the nominated posts. If you are interested in healthcare and healthcare reform, this is a good short list of “must-read’s.” You may not agree with all of them, but they provide valuable information, and ...
Source: Health Beat - April 5, 2015 Category: American Health Authors: Maggie Mahar Tags: Finalists NIHCM Media Awards Obamacare's victims policies cancelled Source Type: blogs
NIHCM Health Care Digital Media Award: the Finalists
Thanks to NIHCM for including “Obamacare’s Victims” parts 1 and 2 on the list (see below for a brief description of this two-part post) , and congratulations to all of the finalists.
The award recognizes excellence in digital media that improves understanding of health care topics.A $10,000 prize will be presented to the winner at a dinner in Washington, DC on June 1, 2015.
I urge everyone to read the nominated posts. If you are interested in healthcare and healthcare reform, this is a good short list of “must-read’s.” You may not agree with all of them, but they provide valuable information, and high...
Source: Health Beat - April 5, 2015 Category: American Health Authors: Maggie Mahar Tags: Finalists NIHCM Media Awards Obamacare's victims policies cancelled Source Type: blogs
