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This rapidly growing field marries bioinformatics and pharmacology and represents a transformative new era of precision medicine and highly personalized treatments.
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Check out news from Alpha Sophia, Handl Health, Alaffia Health, and Summer Health
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Walgreens announced that it is expanding its specialty pharmacy offerings. Experts think that this move could yield several strategic benefits, given the higher profit margins associated with specialty medications compared to traditional drugs. They also think Walgreens’ move could lead to greater competition, consolidation and innovation within the broader pharmacy industry.
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If you advise self-insured employers on healthcare benefits, your expert insights will help provide a comprehensive perspective of the state of healthcare benefits for employers in our second annual survey, the 2024 Benefit Consultant Sentiment THE INDEX.
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Embedding patient financing options into the billing process presents a very clear solution for providers and patients to balance affordability and increase collectability.
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How health tech startups can successfully adapt the principles to their business ideas
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More than 33,000 Providence employees filed a class-action complaint against the health system in 2021, alleging that it had been withholding their wages by denying them breaks and rounding down their working hours. Last week, Providence was ordered to pay more than $200 million in damages — a decision that “sends a message to healthcare corporations,” according to an attorney representing the workers.
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Day One Biopharmaceuticals drug Ojemda is now FDA-approved for advanced pediatric low-grade glioma, the most common type of brain cancer in children. The regulatory decision for Ojemda covers a broader swath of patients than a drug combination from Novartis approved for treating this childhood cancer.
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Game-changing advances can be achieved by integrating patient collaboration and priorities into the full span of trial design.
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it is paramount that we address both cholesterol risk and inflammation to reduce the risk of a heart attack or stroke.
The post To Further Impede the Progression of Heart Disease, We Must Treat Patients With Anti-Inflammatory Drugs in Combination With Statin Therapy appeared first on MedCity News ..read more