Novartis' Sandoz Is Back In The Insulin Biosims Market. Can It Succeed?
Back in December 2018, the Sandoz division of Swiss pharmaceutical giant Novartis announced (see the full announcementHERE) " Sandoz enters into commercialization and supply agreement for insulin biosimilars " . It also revealed that Sandoz had entered a " commercialization and supply agreement with Gan& Lee " which it added was " a leading insulin supplier headquartered in China with more than 20 years ' experience in insulins and production capacity with attractive cost of goods sold (COGS) structures " .Few Americans have ever heard of Gan& Lee, although this year, at the American Diabetes Association ' s 82nd S...
Source: Scott's Web Log - July 22, 2022 Category: Endocrinology Tags: insulin analogs 2022 Biosimilar biosimilars generics insulin analogues Novartis Sandoz Source Type: blogs
South Korea's Extraordinary Fertility Decline
The complicated history of family planning as well as socioeconomic and political factors may all play roles in depressing birth rates in South Korea. But the nation ' s fertility decline is just one piece in a complicated gender puzzle. (Source: The RAND Blog)
Source: The RAND Blog - July 22, 2022 Category: Health Management Authors: Daniel Hicks; Jennifer Bouey; Jessie Wang Source Type: blogs
The Macro View – Health, Economics, and Politics and the Big Picture. What I Am Watching Here And Abroad.
July 14, 2022 Edition-----The biggest news this week was the assassination of the ex-PM of Japan – Shinzo Abe – who was a good friend to OZ incidentally.In the US we have had a wind-up to a busy summit season – NATO etc – and the ongoing war in Ukraine which is becoming a deepening, protracted and horrible situation which it seems hard to resolve sadly.In the UK Boris is out but not gone and the battle for the succession is off and rolling.In OZ we have Albo back and we need to work out what to mitigate these various natural disasters and actually get on with it!!!! The response has been pathetic so far I reckon!--...
Source: Australian Health Information Technology - July 14, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Dr David G More MB PhD Source Type: blogs
Yoon Suk-yeol Is Biden's Perfect South Korea Partner
Yoon Suk-yeol, South Korea ' s conservative new president, has shown that he is in lockstep with U.S. President Joe Biden on foreign policy. During Biden ' s Indo-Pacific trip last month, their conversations in the security domain suggest Yoon ' s overlapping tenure with Biden heralds a golden era in the U.S.-South Korea alliance. (Source: The RAND Blog)
Source: The RAND Blog - July 5, 2022 Category: Health Management Authors: Derek Grossman Source Type: blogs
AI are (going to be) people too
BY KIM BELLARD
My heart says I should write about Uvalde, but my head says, not yet; there are others more able to do that. I’ll reserve my sorrow, my outrage, and any hopes I still have for the next election cycle.
Instead, I’m turning to a topic that has long fascinated me: when and how are we going to recognize when artificial intelligence (AI) becomes, if not human, then a “person”? Maybe even a doctor.
What prompted me to revisit this question was an article in Nature by Alexandra George and Toby Walsh:Artificial intelligence is breaking patent law. Their main point is that pa...
Source: The Health Care Blog - May 31, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Ryan Bose-Roy Tags: Health Tech Health Technology Artificial intelligence Kim Bellard Patent Uvalde Source Type: blogs
Russian Public Opinion on the Ukraine War: Perspectives from the American Experience
John MuellerSince World War II, the United States has conducted extended wars in Korea, Vietnam, Afghanistan, and Iraq. Whether the Russian effort in Ukraine will be similarly extended has yet to be seen. However, should that come about, evidence about public opinion from America ’s wars suggests lessons—and non-lessons—for assessing Russian opinion on the war in Ukraine.The comparison suggests that, after a rally-round-the flag effect at the outset of the war, a decline of support is to be expected regardless of the effects of media coverage, antiwar demonstrations, censorship and propaganda efforts, or military hap...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - May 26, 2022 Category: American Health Authors: John Mueller Source Type: blogs
Three Principles for Korean Peninsula Peace and Security
In his inaugural address in 1998, former South Korean President Kim Dae-jung defined three principles for Korean peninsula peace and security. How might these principles be adjusted to manage today ' s changing North Korean threats and the Korean security environment? (Source: The RAND Blog)
Source: The RAND Blog - May 20, 2022 Category: Health Management Authors: Bruce W. Bennett; Young-jun Kim Source Type: blogs
Five Market ‐Oriented Policies to Help the U.S. Semiconductor Industry
Scott LincicomeWith Congress still considering a $50 billion-plus subsidy package for U.S. semiconductor manufacturing, I ’ve discussed themany(many)reasonswhy such subsides are costly and unnecessary, as well as theignominious history of similar industrial policies in the United States. This doesn ’t mean, however, that the U.S. government should simply do nothing. Instead, there are many horizontal, pro-market policy reforms that would deliver substantial benefits to chipmakers and other capital-intensive advanced manufacturers in the United States while avoiding U.S. industrial policy’s common pitfalls – picking...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - May 5, 2022 Category: American Health Authors: Scott Lincicome Source Type: blogs
Correcting the Record on the Trans ‐Pacific Partnership
Clark PackardCiting a supposed groundswell of support for rejoining the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), former U.S. Trade Representative Ambassador Robert Lighthizer recentlyargued that it would be a mistake for the United States to reenter the trade pact. The promising agreement with 11 other Pacific Rim countries was negotiated by the Obama Administration as the economic centerpiece of its “pivot to Asia” but then was unfortunatelyjettisoned by the Trump Administration as one of its first official acts in January 2017. The remaining TPP members moved forward with the agreement and renamed it the Comprehensive and Pr...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - April 1, 2022 Category: American Health Authors: Clark Packard Source Type: blogs
Facial Recognition Debate Lessons from Ukraine
Matthew Feeney and Rachel ChiuAccording toReuters, Ukrainian officials are using the facial recognition search engine Clearview AI to “uncover Russian assailants, combat misinformation and identify the dead.” In the United States, Clearview AI has made headlines in reporting on law enforcement, with civil liberties experts raising well‐founded concerns about the proliferation of facial recognition technology (FRT) in poli ce departments. These concerns have prompted calls for the outrightban of facial recognition. Yet the Reuters article serves as a reminder that FRT has many applications beyond policing, and...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - March 17, 2022 Category: American Health Authors: Matthew Feeney, Rachel Chiu Source Type: blogs
Will South Korea's New President Reshape Regional Dynamics?
Yoon Suk-yeol has been elected president of South Korea. With a tall order to fill at home and abroad, the Yoon administration has the potential to reshape South Korea ' s future and relationships in the region. The path that he carves for Seoul in the coming weeks and months will be watched with keen interest marked by hopes and apprehension by his neighbors. (Source: The RAND Blog)
Source: The RAND Blog - March 15, 2022 Category: Health Management Authors: Soo Kim Source Type: blogs
What the Media Might Have Missed About South Korea's Elections
The toxicity of the anti-feminist discourse in South Korea does not accurately reflect the gender-related tensions and problems that most Koreans currently face. The obstacles to improving gender equity are more mundane and more ubiquitous than the hyperbole of anti-feminism suggests. (Source: The RAND Blog)
Source: The RAND Blog - March 10, 2022 Category: Health Management Authors: Erik Mobrand Source Type: blogs
5 Years Later the United States Is Still Paying for Its TPP Blunder
Colin GrabowLast month —January 23 to be exact —marked the five-year anniversary of President Trump’s decision to withdraw the United States from the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade agreement. The country has been paying for it ever since.Comprised of the United States and eleven other Pacific Rim countries —including economic heavyweight Japan—the TPP was found by a 2016Cato analysis to result in net trade liberalization. A study by the U.S. International Trade Commission calculated a real U.S. GDP increase of$42.7 billion through 2032 as a result of TPP membership while a Peterson Institute for Internati...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - February 10, 2022 Category: American Health Authors: Colin Grabow Source Type: blogs
North Korea Hints at Return of Long ‐Range Missile, Nuclear Weapon Testing
Eric GomezThis year is shaping up to be a very active one for North Korea ’s missile program. Kim Jong Un’s regime has already conducted four ballistic missile tests so far this year, including two tests of a new, maneuverable warhead that North Korea called a hypersonic glide vehicle (HGV). All of the missiles tested in 2022 thus far, and most tests conducted since the breakdown of nuclear diplomacy in February 2019, were of relatively short ‐range systems. This trend could change, however, due torecent guidance from North Korea ’s politburo.The politburo report instructs the country ’s nationa...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - January 21, 2022 Category: American Health Authors: Eric Gomez Source Type: blogs
Let the Sun Set on Solar Tariffs
ConclusionThe best decision by President Biden would be to refuse to extend these solar tariffs —one ofmany examples of how freeing trade can help counter climate change. Yet what may well prevent Biden from making the best decision are the politics involved and, especially, the prospect of being accused of favoring China and abandoning U.S. labor unions. But surely Joe Biden should have realized by now that, in any trade decision he makes that relates to China and regardless of what he actually does, the president will be accused by his political opponents of kowtowing to the Chinese government. And if his goal is to ex...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - January 19, 2022 Category: American Health Authors: James Bacchus, Gabriella Beaumont-Smith Source Type: blogs
