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Almirall/Lilly lebrikizumab offers potential long-term management of atopic dermatitis

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Minor side effects to long-term maintenance balance. Any clinical study seeks to achieve maximum results efficacy with minimal occurrence of side effects. However, side effects do happen. Regarding both common cold and headache, they are as well among the side effects reported for similar drugs.

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Cancer Patient-Support Program Uptake is Low: Here’s How to Change That

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Among polled patients who had never accessed a cancer-support program, education about cancer treatments and their side effects (33%), as well as information to help them better understand their cancer (32%) topped the list of resources they wished they had received. 43, 165–169 (2019). Complement. Stoerkel, E. Complement.

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The end-of-life care conundrum

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In terms of statistics, the researchers found that rates of treatment within 30 days of death among all cancer types combined did not change (39% in 2015 and 2019), with similar statistics seen within 14 days of death (17% in 2015 and 2019). Direction of treatment.

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The evolving role of social media in healthcare

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Healthcare Provider (HCP) marketing. Back in 2015, the influencer-of-influencers, Kim Kardashian, was slammed for failing to mention the potential side effects of an anti-nausea drug, leading to the US FDA getting involved. Still, many pharma and medical marketers have been reluctant to engage with HCPs on social media.

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The Evolving Role of Social Media in Healthcare

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Healthcare Provider (HCP) Marketing. Back in 2015, the influencer-of-influencers, Kim Kardashian, was slammed for failing to mention the potential side effects of an anti-nausea drug, leading to the US FDA getting involved. Still, many pharma and medical marketers have been reluctant to engage with HCPs on social media.

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Digital Self-Neuromodulation Therapy for PTSD: Interview with Oded Kraft, CEO of GrayMatters Health

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These treatments at times come with a long list of side effects, leaving many patients in search of an effective long-term solution. For some patients with PTSD, psychotherapy may not be an effective option, they may find talking about their traumatic experience stress inducing, untherapeutic or ineffective.

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The “Medical Bypass”: new drugs to strike obesity

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The Health Survey for England 2019 reported that 28% of adults in the UK were obese and 36.2% In the US, obesity care is estimated at to cost $147 billion in healthcare spending annually. NICE has only allowed healthcare providers to prescribe continuous treatment of the drug for two years. were overweight but not obese.

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