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The best way to lower healthcare costs

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percent in 2007-2008 to 39.6 Research has shown that when some doctors tell patients to lose weight, many resort to “fast and dangerous” methods like OTC stimulants. My doctor recently told me that she has stopped seeing patients who don’t take her advice on losing weight and exercising. percent in 2015-2016.

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Improving patient access and healthcare literacy [PODCAST]

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Dr. Grace Lomax, who co-founded Patient Connect with her sister in 2008, came up with the idea for the solution when she started asking patients in her clinic what information they wanted when and how. Neville Hobson [Host]: You founded Patient Connect together with your sister Zoe Barker in 2008. Dr. Grace Lomax : Yes, happily.

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Former Sanofi head Viehbacher to become Biogen CEO

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Viehbacher led Sanofi between 2008 and 2014 and has decades of experience with both large pharmaceutical companies and small biotechs. Six months after Biogen began its search for new leadership, the biotech has now named former Sanofi chief executive Christopher Viehbacher as Michel Vounatsos’ replacement, effective from 14 th November.

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

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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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Personal responsibility in the obesity epidemic

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After a visit to his doctor, he found out that he had diabetes and was immediately put on medication. Obesity-related medical care costs in the United States, in 2008 dollars, were an estimated $147 billion. One of the guys I served with was having issues with nerve pain in his hands. billion ($79 per obese individual) and $6.38

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The Traditional Pharma Model Isn’t Working – It’s Time to Evolve!

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After decades of in-person meetings, dinners, lavish events, and speaking engagements, the pharma landscape has shifted away from friendly relationships between doctors and representatives.

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Using alkali-metal cation recognition of ?-cyclodextrin to detect lithium ions by MALDI-TOF

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Following post-doctoral studies on proteomics at Purdue University, under supervision of Professor Fred E Regnier, Ahmad joined the SMPA laboratory in 2001. References Handbook of Stable Isotope Analytical Techniques Vol II 1st Edition – October 17, 2008, Author: Pier de Groot, eBook ISBN: 9780080930114.