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How the food allergy sector is benefitting from health tech’s recent boom

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For the 32 million individuals in the US with food allergies, more research into symptoms, causes, and treatments has been long sought after, but historically underfunded. per person being spent on food allergy research. Luckily for those with food allergies, the food allergy sector has benefitted from this influx of funding.

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Do patients care about accelerated approval drugs?

World of DTC Marketing

Do patients care? The program was codified into law under the Food and Drug Safety and Innovation Act (FDASIA) in 2012. Do patients care? If you’re a cancer patient and your oncologist is prescribing a drug approved via accelerated Approval, are you going to refuse treatment? The answer to that would be “no.”

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CMS Proposes New Services for Vulnerable Patients: Reimbursement for Community Health Integration, Social Determinants Risk Assessment, and Principal Illness Navigation

Nixon Gwilt Law

healthcare system is access to equitable care for our most vulnerable patient populations. Rethinking Healthcare: Addressing Social Determinants in Patient Treatment Practitioners and their staff often dedicate valuable time and resources to understanding the social determinants that may impact their ability to successfully treat a patient.

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Innovative personalised immunotherapy approved for multiple myeloma

European Pharmaceutical Review

The first BCMA-targeted CAR-T cell therapy for second-line treatment of multiple myeloma has been approved by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA). FDA approves Carvykti for patients with multiple myeloma The post Innovative personalised immunotherapy approved for multiple myeloma appeared first on European Pharmaceutical Review.

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Parkinson’s infusion treatment demonstrates advantage over oral delivery

European Pharmaceutical Review

A Phase III trial has shown that compared oral drug delivery, administering levodopa through an infusion pump led to nearly two hours of day (1.72) of additional time in which the medicine reduced symptoms in Parkinson’s patients. There were 381 Parkinson’s patients enrolled in the trial. and Joan A.

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Understanding and Adapting to the New Patient Journey

Pharma Marketing Network

But what about patients? And what about the disrupted patient journey? What can our industry do to ensure patients maintain continuity of care at a time when good health is imperative? Reassess the Patient Journey. Enhance Patient Services Programs. Here, we offer four ways pharma marketers can help.

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UroMems Announces First-Ever Smart Artificial Urinary Sphincter Implant in a Female Patient

Legacy MEDSearch

UroMems , a global company developing innovative, mechatronics technology to treat stress urinary incontinence (SUI), announced today that it has successfully completed the first-ever implant of the UroActive smart, automated artificial urinary sphincter (AUS) in a female patient. Food and Drug Administration).