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Biogen’s Alzheimer’s drug: What’s the price tag on hope?

World of DTC Marketing

Kesselheim, a professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School via the Washington Post , says “the worst thing for people with Alzheimer’s would be to put out a product that doesn’t work.” At one point, Biogen was down as an innovative biotech company in Weston, Massachusetts. Biogen needs a new drug revenue badly.

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STAT+: Drugmaker raises the price of an old chemo medicine tenfold amid persistent shortages

STAT News

Amid sporadic shortages of a drug that is essential in preparing patients for lifesaving, cancer-fighting treatments, one manufacturer has returned to the market — but is selling its medicine for 10 to 20 times the prices offered by the only other companies with available supplies.

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Grand Rounds October 27, 2023: Digital, Decentralized and Democratized: Lessons From The Yale PaxLC Trial (Harlan M. Krumholz, MD, SM)

Rethinking Clinical Trials

One of the main reasons we turn people away is because they are taking a medication that does not work with Paxlovid. Tags #pctGR, @Collaboratory1 The post Grand Rounds October 27, 2023: Digital, Decentralized and Democratized: Lessons From The Yale PaxLC Trial (Harlan M.        Speaker Harlan M. Krumholz, MD, SM Harold H.

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Grand Rounds December 15, 2023: Diversifying Clinical Trials: A Path Forward (Roxana Mehran, MD, FACC, FAHA, MSCAI, FESC)

Rethinking Clinical Trials

Diversity in clinical trials is important for generalizability of results, to provide equal opportunities, practice precision medicine, tailor practical guidelines, improve public health outcomes, detect potential differences in safety and efficacy, and to address health disparities. We have to change how we are practicing.

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How SARS-CoV-2 hijacks human cells to evade immune system

Scienmag

Credit: UC San Diego Health Sciences Researchers at University of California San Diego School of Medicine have discovered one way in which SARS-CoV-2, the coronavirus that causes COVID-19, hijacks human cell machinery to blunt the immune response, allowing it to establish infection, replicate and cause disease.

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Orphan drugs and where to launch them: The keys to Europe’s forgotten territories

Pharmaceutical Technology

Despite this high number, orphan diseases are rare by definition, affecting around one in 2,000 people as defined by the European Union. Due to the high price tags associated with these speciality medicines, innovators have naturally favoured big markets with high GDP such as the US and EU-5 (Germany, France, Spain, Italy, and the UK).

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Grand Rounds July 28, 2023: How Can Researchers Fight Misinformation About Medicine? (Carl T. Bergstrom, PhD)

Rethinking Clinical Trials

Bergstrom, PhD Professor, Department of Biology University of Washington Slides Keywords Research, Misinformation, Media, Social Media Key Points Misinformation abounds in medicine and about medicine. One step journals can take is checking to see if cited papers have been retracted. We need to find a way to tackle this.

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