8 Digital Health Mergers That Help Prepare for 2018
A lot of interesting acquisitions and mergers took place in 2017. Pharmaceutical, health insurance, medical technology and digital technology companies took brave steps to strengthen their position with more or less success. Here are the most exciting ones.
Last year’s business moves on the digital health market suggest that producing drugs alone without added digital services is not enough anymore for pharma companies; medical websites are becoming huge media outlets; and that Apple is seriously moving into healthcare. Check out the descriptions of the 8 most interesting mergers below.
1) Internet Brands & WebMD, th...
Source: The Medical Futurist - January 11, 2018 Category: Information Technology Authors: nora Tags: Future of Medicine acquisitions business digital health Healthcare healthcare companies healthcare market Innovation M&A mergers technology Source Type: blogs
The 1000th Thread!
This is the 1000th presentation to my bioethics blog since starting on Google Blogspot.com in 2004.There has been many topics covered. Though comments by the visitors has always been encouraged and, since as a "discussion blog", comments leading to discussions I have felt was the definitive function here. Virtually none of the thread topics have gone unread and most have had some commentary, some with mainly particularly strong and emphatic opinions http://bioethicsdiscussion.blogspot.com/2013/01/should-pathologists-be-physicians.html, some with extensive up to 12 years long continued discussion http://bioethicsdiscussion....
Source: blog.bioethics.net - December 24, 2017 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Maurice Bernstein, M.D. Tags: Health Care syndicated Source Type: blogs
The 1000th Thread!
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Source: Bioethics Discussion Blog - December 24, 2017 Category: Medical Ethics Source Type: blogs
Deans Need Progressive Responsibility Too
Dr. Antman and her family at the 2016 American Heart Association Boston Heart & Stroke Gala
Editor’s Note: This blog post complements the recently published study “The Decanal Divide: Women in Decanal Roles at U.S. Medical Schools.” Read the full study on academicmedicine.org.
By: Karen Antman, MD
Dr. Antman is dean, Boston University School of Medicine, provost, Boston University Medical Campus, and chair, AAMC Council of Deans
Why aren’t more medical school deans women? Medical school faculty don’t normally wake up thinking, “I want to be dean.” How then does one end up there? I was asked to...
Source: Academic Medicine Blog - September 12, 2017 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: Guest Author Tags: Featured Guest Perspective AAMC Council of Deans Boston University Medical Campus Boston University School of Medicine gender leadership research women Source Type: blogs
Going After Your Past – The Big National Geographic Ancestry Test Review
Have you ever wondered to which people your ancestors belonged thousands of years ago? Or how your ancestors ended up living in the region where you were born? Did you know that your genes can reveal this information? The National Geographic Ancestry Test promises to take you on a journey into your faraway past and to be part of the Genographic Project aiming to uncover one of the greatest stories of humanity – our origins. I was excited to see what my genes hide so I ordered a test with full of curiosity. Here are my results.
Where do we come from?
Have you ever wondered where would you find your ancestors if you ha...
Source: The Medical Futurist - July 12, 2017 Category: Information Technology Authors: nora Tags: Genomics ancestry clinicla genetics DNA future gc3 genes Innovation national geographic personal genomics personalized genetics Source Type: blogs
Massive measles outbreaks in Europe: A harbinger of things to come in the US?
Right now, Europe is in the middle of a massive measles outbreak that has resulted in 35 deaths. Is Europe a harbinger of things to come in the US? (Source: Respectful Insolence)
Source: Respectful Insolence - July 12, 2017 Category: Surgery Authors: Orac Tags: Antivaccine nonsense Complementary and alternative medicine Pseudoscience Skepticism/critical thinking France Italy measles measles outbreak MMR Romania school vaccine mandate Source Type: blogs
The Ultimate Test
I got a letter the other day that presented a theory of language my correspondent wanted me to consider. Regrettably, I doubted his idea could be accomplished by plain old evolution and I told him that I cannot take seriously any account of language that requires a miraculous beginning.Years ago I read Stephen Pinker ’s famous bookThe Language Instinct. Pinker is a gifted writer and his book is filled with interesting and entertaining facts, but I could never persuade myself to even consider his account of how language works. His system requires a set of modules in the brain for generating sentences. If language had be...
Source: Babel's Dawn - April 18, 2017 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Authors: Blair Source Type: blogs
You ’re in my space! How preferred interpersonal distance varies across the world
Compared with English participants, Germans were comfortable with a smaller interpersonal space when chatting to an acquaintance
By Christian Jarrett
It’s really awkward when you’re chatting to someone whose sense of appropriate interpersonal space is way too close. There’s the option of performing a subtle backward shuffle, but what if they simply close the gap again?
Our judgments about such things obviously vary with individual personality – people with more social anxiety tend to prefer a greater distance – and also on the nature of the relationship we have with the other person. But culture m...
Source: BPS RESEARCH DIGEST - March 30, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: BPS Research Digest Tags: Cross-cultural Social Source Type: blogs
Massive measles outbreak in Romania: A warning to the US?
Beginning a little over a year ago, Romania has been enduring a massive measles outbreak. The cause is familiar: Low MMR uptake below what is needed for herd immunity. Is this a warning to the US? (Source: Respectful Insolence)
Source: Respectful Insolence - March 21, 2017 Category: Surgery Authors: Orac Tags: Antivaccine nonsense Complementary and alternative medicine Pseudoscience Quackery Skepticism/critical thinking Donald Trump measles MMR outbreak Romania Tom Price vaccines Source Type: blogs
Teva Pharmaceutical to Pay $519 Million to Settle FCPA Charges
Conclusion
The Criminal Division’s Fraud Section reached the resolution based on a variety of factors, including that Teva did not timely voluntarily self-disclose the conduct, but did cooperate with the department’s investigation after the SEC served it with a subpoena. Teva received a twenty percent discount off the low end of the United States Sentencing Guidelines fine range because of substantial cooperation and remediation. The company did not receive full cooperation credit, because, according to the DOJ, there were several issues that resulted in delays in the early stages of the investigation, including vast...
Source: Policy and Medicine - December 26, 2016 Category: American Health Authors: Thomas Sullivan - Policy & Medicine Writing Staff Source Type: blogs
Helping Doctors Utilize Nightscout -- from Romania
We love hearing about how the #WeAreNotWaiting movement is exploding, bringing in ever more families and adults living with diabetes creating their own tools for sharing data that make life with this disease a bit easier to manage. Today, we're e... (Source: Diabetes Mine)
Source: Diabetes Mine - November 10, 2016 Category: Endocrinology Authors: Mike Hoskins Source Type: blogs
Cyberwar, What Is It Good For?
By MARGLIT GUR-ARIE
Some wars are supposed to last forever. Lyndon B. Johnson started a war on poverty. Richard Nixon kicked off a war on drugs. Ronald Reagan initiated a war on terror. Poverty, drug use and terror are booming. It’s time to launch another good ol’ war. Let’s make it relevant, cool, hip and infinite. So how about a 21st century war on Cybertheft? This may sound trifle by comparison to those other wars, but wars are rarely about the actual title we bestow upon them. The war on terror evolved into a war on people living under secular dictators, the war on poverty ended up being a war on poor people, a...
Source: The Health Care Blog - August 1, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: John Irvine Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs
Lingo Lango, Jingy Jong Jango
I cannot imagine anybody who reads this blog not enjoying Gaston Dorren’s book Lingo: Around Europe in 60 Languages. Yes, sixty languages are a lot to cover, but each one is discussed quite briefly, making only one or two points about the language before moving on. The text takes less than 300 pages, so each language gets the equivalent of a blog post’s worth of discussion. You won’t learn Basque this way, but you will learn that Basque does not have subjects and objects (although speakers can still distinguish between the doer and the doee). The book is full of interesting nuggets doled out in witty prose. Most of t...
Source: Babel's Dawn - February 29, 2016 Category: Speech Therapy Authors: Blair Source Type: blogs
“A troupe danced their way through #Asău, a village in...
"A troupe danced their way through #Asău, a village in Romania, on their way to perform at private homes. During the days leading up to the New Year, it's not unusual for roads in the Trotus Valley of Romania to be blocked by troupes of revelers dressed as dancing bears. @dianazeynebalhindawi remembered scenes like this from her early childhood, and last year, returned to Romania to photograph them. "There were so many times I wanted to put my camera down, put on a bearskin and join them," @dianazeynebalhindawi said. "It's really magical, like going into a fairy tale." Tap the link in our profile to read more on the @nyti...
Source: Kidney Notes - December 6, 2015 Category: Urology & Nephrology Authors: Joshua Schwimmer Source Type: blogs
“A crowd celebrating New Year’s Eve gathered to watch as...
"A crowd celebrating New Year's Eve gathered to watch as Dumitru Toloaca marched in playing a flute to announce the arrival of his troupe of dancing bears. (Or to put it more accurately, revelers clad in bearskins.) In Romania's Trotus Valley, this much-anticipated visit is customary in the early-morning hours of a new year. The photographer @dianazeynebalhindawi, who lived in Romania until she was 8, returned last year to her childhood home, where she spent a few frigid days photographing the dancing bears. We'll share more of @dianazeynebalhindawi's photos from #Romania this #nytweekender. Visit the link in our profile t...
Source: Kidney Notes - December 6, 2015 Category: Urology & Nephrology Authors: Joshua Schwimmer Source Type: blogs
