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Implant Coating Fights Infection and Monitors Strain

Medgadget

Unlike current approaches that use antibiotics that are gradually released by the implant, the mechanical approach will not become depleted over time or cause side-effects in nearby tissues. It also avoids the manifestation of antimicrobial drug resistance and can also easily kill drug-resistant bacteria.

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The immediate future of DTC

World of DTC Marketing

HCP’s want to ensure they are aware of the risks and possible side effects of new therapies. Patients feel electronic health records belong to them and that they should be accessible by every doctor they see. Most are OK with telehealth but don’t want patients using telehealth to ask for new prescriptions.

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Cerner Enviza and FDA partner to develop AI drug safety tools

Pharmaceutical Technology

Under the FDA’s drug safety Sentinel Initiative, the partnership will develop AI tools to collect key information from clinical notes within electronic health records (EHR). This data will be used by Oracle and John Snow to help the FDA better understand the effects of medicines on large populations.

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AI-Designed Custom Knee Implants

Medgadget

The goal is that medical interventions are highly tuned to the patient they are directed at, in the hope that tailoring therapeutic interventions will lead to better patient outcomes and reduced instances of side-effects. They then used an electron beam powder bed fusion to manufacture their designs.

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Soft Bioresorbable Implant Controls Pain by Cooling Nerves

Medgadget

A team of engineers at Northwestern University led by John Rogers, the person responsible for many advances in flexible electronics, created a drug-free implant that can control pain by cooling nerves. As a drug-free technology, the implant could help to avoid the addiction and side-effects that opioids frequently cause.

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How Real-World Data Can Contribute to Improved Mental Health Treatment

PM360

They’re wonderful medications, blockbuster sales, but real side effects. Another side effect that tends to be related to weight gain is the metabolic syndrome, which increases your risk for cardiac events and that increases your risk for sudden death and heart attacks. Do they have any side effects associated with them?

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Evolution of ePROM: Advancements, Concerns, and the Way Forward

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Electronic Patient-Reported Outcome Measures (ePROMs) are now allowing these patients to self-report health conditions and treatment effectiveness remotely. 1 The use of ePROMs has been shown to improve medication adherence, clinical effectiveness, quality of life, and long-term survival rates. of cases.