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Should doctors refuse to treat obese patients?

World of DTC Marketing

IN BRIEF: Doctors are not required to treat obese patients who won’t do anything to lose weight but the problem is more than reminding patients they need to get exercise and drop pounds. The post Should doctors refuse to treat obese patients?

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An app can never replace a doctor

World of DTC Marketing

million doctors, nurses, and midwives expected by 2030. Vastaamo has filed for bankruptcy but left many Finns wary of telling doctors personal details, says Joni Siikavirta, a lawyer representing the company’s patients “ No universal standards for storing “emotional data” exist.

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GoodRx launches new push to draw in doctors

Bio Pharma Dive

Targeting providers directly is a pivot for GoodRx, but the company sees an opportunity to capture more pharmaceutical advertising revenue, said executive Preeti Parikh

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5 Ways That Digital Signage Improves a Doctor’s Office

Pharma Mirror

When you many patients think of a doctor’s office, hospital, or healthcare facility, they picture a stuffy, cold, and outdated facility that increases your anxiety. Offices with old decor prevent patients from visiting the doctor regularly and feeling relaxed.

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Can You Sue Your Doctor for Blindness Caused by Elmiron®?

Pharma Mirror

A recurring question that the The post <strong>Can You Sue Your Doctor for Blindness Caused by Elmiron</strong>®<strong>?</strong> The Janssen Pharmaceuticals-produced medication Elmiron® is used to treat interstitial cystitis.

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Doctors don’t have time for digital

World of DTC Marketing

QUICK READ: Patients are returning to their doctor’s office, and it’s not uncommon for appointments, or routine visits, to be scheduled weeks or months in advance. As one doctor told me, “they’re acting as nothing has happened in the last year.

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Square Health merger throws telehealth firm Push Doctor a lifeline

Pharma Phorum

Push Doctor – a digital platform that virtually connects patients with GPs – has been acquired by private healthcare service provider Square Health for an undisclosed fee. The trend has also grabbed the attention of venture capital investors, and Push Doctor has been no exception.

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Even on social media “listen to the doctor”

World of DTC Marketing

The post Even on social media “listen to the doctor” appeared first on World of DTC Marketing.com. SUMMARY : People are anxious because of the resurgence of COVID. Unfortunately, there is a lot of false and bad information online.

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Doctors largely comfortable with biosimilar drugs, but question economics: report

Bio Pharma Dive

Weeks after the first Humira copycat launched in the U.S., a survey by Cardinal Health suggests insurer mandates will drive biosimilar adoption

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For ALS patients, doctors, a new medicine reignites concerns about healthcare access

Bio Pharma Dive

Relyvrio, a drug developed by Amylyx Pharmaceuticals, is in high demand in ALS clinics across the U.S. Though some patients are already getting it, insurance coverage and out-of-pocket costs remain a source of anxiety

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Why digital doctors are crucial for the future of primary care

Pharma Phorum

Now, digital doctors are becoming an increasingly important part of the primary care mix. To illustrate this in practice, Push Doctor ’s partnership with Warrington Innovation Network boosted the number of first contact physiotherapists available to the local community.

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Doctors are consumers too! How DTC media impacts HCPs

Bio Pharma Dive

The findings have implications for how pharma teams should think about their DTC and HCP efforts — they are no longer two separate marketing channels

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Ohio Doctor Is Acquitted of Killing Patients With Fentanyl

NY Times

The doctor, William Husel, had faced 14 counts of murder after his patients overdosed on fentanyl, the powerful opioid. Fentanyl Drugs (Pharmaceuticals) Hospitals Suits and Litigation (Civil) Doctors Mount Carmel Health System Husel, William Ohio United States

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Consumers want convenient, online doctor-finding tools

Pharma Phorum

When it comes to pharma marketing, historically companies have had to either market direct to consumers — and trust them to find a doctor and bring up the company’s product with them — or to send sales reps to doctors — and hope they had the right mix of potential customers among their patients.

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Supreme Court Sides With Doctors Accused of Running Pill Mills

NY Times

In a unanimous ruling, the justices ordered federal appeals courts to reconsider the cases of two doctors convicted of violating the Controlled Substances Act.

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could EKGs help doctors use AI to detect pulmonary embolisms?

Scienmag

In a pilot study, scientists at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai showed for the first time that artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms can detect signs of these clots in electrocardiograms (EKGs), a finding which may one day help doctors with screening.

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Big differences in how emergency doctors assess patient care needs

Scienmag

When researchers divided out-of-hours general practitioners (GPs) into four groups based on how often they admit their patients to the hospital, they found that if you are seen by a doctor who belongs to the 25 per cent who admit the most often, your chance of a hospital stay is much greater.

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Vaccine sales driven down by pandemic's effects on doctor visits

Bio Pharma Dive

Pfizer, Sanofi, GSK and Merck each reported lower vaccine sales as stay-at-home orders kept people from their regular vaccinations

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Amazon, Teladoc to deliver doctor consultations via Alexa

Pharma Phorum

Amazon’s encroachment into healthcare advanced a little further this week when the online giant launched a doctor consultation service delivered via its Alexa voice assistant, with the help of telehealth player Teladoc.

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Doctoral student finds alternative cell option for organs-on-chips

Scienmag

Technology and Engineering alternative cell Doctoral finds option organsonchips studentOrgan-on-a-chip technology has provided a push to discover new drugs for a variety of rare and ignored diseases for which current models either don’t exist or lack precision.

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Vitamin D supplement ‘overdosing’ is possible and harmful, warn doctors

Scienmag

‘Overdosing’ on vitamin D supplements is both possible and harmful, warn doctors in the journal BMJ Case Reports after they treated a man who needed hospital admission for his excessive vitamin D intake. Latest News doctors harmful overdosing supplement vitamin warnHypervitaminosis D’, as the condition is formerly known, is on the rise and linked to a wide range of potentially serious health […].

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Doctors and nurses need 20-minute power naps during night shifts to keep patients safe

Scienmag

Latest News 20minute doctors naps night Nurses Patients power safe shifts**Note this presentation is being made at the Euroanaesthesia Congress in Milan, 4-6 June.

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Digitally engaging doctors around the world

Pharma Phorum

Pharmaceutical marketing budgets are going through a period of readjustment as companies explore and exploit a myriad of different digital channels to deliver content to, and engage with, their doctors and other audiences. The post Digitally engaging doctors around the world appeared first on.

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3D imaging method may help doctors better determine prostate cancer aggressiveness

Scienmag

To determine how aggressive someone’s cancer is, doctors look for abnormalities in […]. Latest News aggressiveness cancer determine doctors imaging method prostate

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Researchers reveal moral distress impact, actions to support doctors during pandemic

Scienmag

Social & Behavioral Science actions distress doctors impact moral pandemic researchers reveal support

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Years after the first US biosim launches, doctors still have their concerns: survey

Fierce Pharma

Years after the first US biosim launches, doctors still have their concerns: survey kdunleavy Mon, 02/13/2023 - 06:51

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Almost 50,000 extra doctors needed in England, says BMA

Pharma Times

BMA research finds the number of doctors per 1,000 people in England is 25 years behind comparable EU nations

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Only half of transgender people report supportive care from doctors

Scienmag

Latest News care doctors people Report supportive TransgenderA new paper in Family Practice, published by Oxford University Press, indicates that only around half of transgender people report supportive primary care experiences. Participants with more supportive healthcare experiences had less psychological distress as well as a lower likelihood for self-injury and thoughts of suicide. Past research has established that transgender people experience significant […].

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Medical equality undermined by mistaken male doctors

Scienmag

Progress on gender equality in the medical profession could be hampered by male doctors who overestimate female representation, researchers say. The findings come from a survey of 425 UK doctors, who were asked to estimate the proportion of women in various roles in medicine, and about their levels of support for gender-equality initiatives. Latest News doctors equality Male medical mistaken undermined

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Prescribe fewer antidepressants, and for shorter periods, doctors advised

Scienmag

Doctors should prescribe fewer antidepressants and for shorter periods of time, because of the ongoing uncertainties about their effectiveness and the potential severity and durability of the withdrawal symptoms associated with them, suggests a review of the evidence on antidepressant use, published online in the Drug and Therapeutics Bulletin. Latest News advised antidepressants doctors periods Prescribe shorter

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After controversial approval, doctors are still debating how to use Biogen's Alzheimer's drug

Bio Pharma Dive

Nearly two months since Aduhelm became available, many physicians have yet to use the first treatment approved in the U.S. to slow Alzheimer's disease

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Set targets to cut inhaled anesthesia greenhouse gas emissions, urge doctors

Scienmag

Clear, measurable targets are needed to cut potent greenhouse gas emissions from inhaled anaesthesia and minimise their impact on climate change, insist doctors in The BMJ. Latest News anesthesia cut doctors emissions gas greenhouse inhaled set targets urgeReliance on voluntary efforts simply won’t achieve progress at the scale and speed required, they warn. A regulatory framework for mandatory reporting and accountability, involving a broad spectrum of […].

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Helping doctors manage COVID-19

Scienmag

New tool uses AI technology to assess the severity of lung infections and inform treatment Credit: University of Waterloo Artificial intelligence (AI) technology developed by researchers at the University of Waterloo is capable of assessing the severity of COVID-19 cases with a promising degree of accuracy.

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Doctors tend to overestimate gender equality progress in UK medicine, finds survey

Scienmag

Doctors tend to overestimate the progress made towards gender equality in UK medicine, suggest the results of a snapshot survey published in the open access journal BMJ Open. These misperceptions are associated with greater reluctance, particularly among male doctors, to back initiatives to promote gender equality in the profession, the survey responses show. Latest News doctors equality finds gender Medicine overestimate progress survey tend

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Supreme Court Hears Case of Doctors Accused of Running Pill Mills

NY Times

Drawing on childhood grammar lessons, the justices considered whether the doctors were entitled to argue that they had acted in good faith. Supreme Court (US) Doctors Drug Abuse and Traffic Drugs (Pharmaceuticals) Ethics and Official Misconduct

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Bluebird's top doctor to depart as company grapples with safety review

Bio Pharma Dive

David Davidson has served as Bluebird's chief medical officer since 2012. He'll leave in one month, per a separation agreement with the company

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‘Frequent attenders’ comprise 4 in every 10 family doctor consultations in England

Scienmag

‘Frequent attenders’ now make up around 4 in every 10 family doctor (GP) consultations in England, and the proportion of such patients has risen over the past two decades, reveals a large long term study published in the open access journal BMJ Open. Latest News attenders comprise consultations doctor England family frequent

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1 in 10 cardiology trainee doctors in UK say they have been bullied

Scienmag

One in 10 junior doctors training to be cardiologists in the UK, say they have been bullied, reveal the results of a survey published online in the journal Heart. Bullying of junior doctors […]. Latest News bullied Cardiology doctors traineeWomen and those who qualified in medicine outside the UK are most likely to report being subjected to this behaviour, the responses show.

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Women are not being routinely informed that a common anaesthetic may make their contraception less effective, UK doctors warn

Scienmag

Latest News anaesthetic common contraception doctors effective informed routinely warn women

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Doctoring the Law: Congress May Let FDA Regulate the Practice of Medicine

FDA Law Blog

By Jeffrey N. Gibbs & Sara W. Koblitz — Back in June, when Congress was negotiating the User Fee Acts, FDA asked Congress to add in some provisions reversing several lawsuits that it had just lost.

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Relaunched doctor reward scheme is missed opportunity for fairer reform

Scienmag

Latest News doctor fairer missed opportunity reform Relaunched reward schemeThe new national scheme for rewarding clinical excellence in the NHS is a missed opportunity to design a fairer system and one that recognises the collective effort of teams over individuals, according to a new paper. Writing in the Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, a group of academics say that the new National […].

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FDA and doctors warn against extending COVID-19 vaccine dose gap

Pharma Phorum

In the US, doctors pointed out that the slow roll-out of the vaccines is due to logistical challenges rather than supply and urged authorities to focus on this rather than delaying the dosing schedule. The post FDA and doctors warn against extending COVID-19 vaccine dose gap appeared first on.

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AI could help doctors make the best use of ICU beds during the COVID-19 pandemic

Scienmag

New technology could help doctors make the most of limited resources during the COVID-19 pandemic by identifying patients who require intensive care unit (ICU) treatment. Latest News beds COVID19 doctors ICU pandemicThe system, developed by researchers at the University of Waterloo and DarwinAI, an alumni-founded startup company, uses artificial intelligence (AI) to predict the necessity of ICU admission based on more […].

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