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Three biggest threats to healthcare

World of DTC Marketing

The seventh leading cause of death in the United States, diabetes costs $327 billion in medical costs and lost work and wages. healthcare spending during 2019 was nearly $3.8 Launch prices of new cancer drugs in the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). from 2019 to 2020, much faster than the 4.3%

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Disruption in healthcare is coming

World of DTC Marketing

Between 2019 and 2021, Alphabet’s venture-capital arms, Google Ventures, and Gradient Ventures, and its private-equity unit, CapitalG, made about 100 deals, a quarter of Alphabet’s combined total, in life sciences and health care. Google launched itself into the wearables business in 2019 with a $2.1bn acquisition of Fitbit.

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The current pharma business model is unsustainable

World of DTC Marketing

In pharma, growth depends on new products with hefty price tags when over 80% of voters want lower costs for their prescription drugs. They relied so much on a new drug that they tried to market a product with bad science behind it. The pharma industry is a giant behemoth that needs new drugs to survive and grow.

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MedRhythms Announces FDA Listing of InTandem™ (MR-001) to Improve Walking and Ambulation in Adults with Chronic Stroke

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Food and Drug Administration (FDA). This important milestone enables the world’s first prescription music platform, and is a remarkable day for our company, for music, for healthcare, and most importantly for stroke survivors.” The burden on patient functioning is also profound.

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Pharma within planetary boundaries

European Pharmaceutical Review

In addition, the number of active substances detected in the environment has been increasing with unknown consequences for ecosystems and the accumulation of substances in food chains. Therefore, another question is how we can obtain reliable, transparent information on older drugs.

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GAMP 5 update: computerized system expectations for pharma manufacturers

European Pharmaceutical Review

As ISPE GAMP 5 Second Edition notes in the preface “Operating in a highly regulated industry may lead practitioners to apply prescriptive and rigid compliance-based approaches that are not commensurate with and not effective in managing any actual risk to the product and the patient.”