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Dr B raises $8m for telehealth service to deliver COVID antivirals

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The cash injection will be used to launch a telehealth service that promises to provide prescriptions and services to patients regardless of their ability to pay. The “visitless prescription” service will be available for free for people with low incomes, according to Dr B’s website.

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Effective Pharma Ad Types & Stats

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Professional Advertising: Professional advertising, also known as Direct-to-Professional (DTP) advertising, is another type of pharmaceutical advertising that is aimed at healthcare professionals such as doctors, nurses, and pharmacists. “Direct-to-Consumer Advertising of Prescription Drugs.” ” Kantar Media, 2020.

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Teva asks SCOTUS to overturn “skinny label” verdict on GSK drug

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The substance patent expired in 2007. Things became litigious in 2017, when a Delaware court found that Teva’s label for its generic encouraged doctors to use the drug to treat heart failure in a way that infringed GSK’s RE40,000 patent, which was reissued by the Patent and Trademark Office (PTO) in 2008.

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What CVS’s Signify Health acquisition means for the future of healthcare

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Instead of patients travelling to doctors, doctors will now visit patients so that people receive the care they need in the place they’re most comfortable: their own homes. In 2018, CVS acquired the insurer, Aetna , and in 2007, the company acquired pharmacy services provider Caremark Rx.

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The best way to lower healthcare costs

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percent in 2007-2008 to 39.6 Pharma should strive to get patients off some prescription drugs because they lost weight and are eating well, but we know that’s not going to happen. Research has shown that when some doctors tell patients to lose weight, many resort to “fast and dangerous” methods like OTC stimulants.