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- By Nikhil Bhojwani
Preamble
A recent post from Recon Strategy outlined the longer-term strategic implications of Covid-19 on 12 healthcare sectors. This post highlights the opportunity to redeploy corporate strategy ass…
- By Nikhil Bhojwani
Even as our priority today is dealing with the Covid crisis, healthcare organizations would do well to start thinking about the longer-term implications for their strategies. In some instances the mar…
- By Marc Herant
A first Covid-19 interventional study – unfortunately negative
The first of what promises to be a series of many interventional studies for acute Covid-19 disease to appear in the Journal. Lopinavir i…
- By Marc Herant
Keeping up with COVID-19
It’s not easy for a refereed weekly print periodical to keep up with an epidemic that evolves on a daily basis, but the NEJM is doing its best and all articles are free on-lin…
- By Marc Herant
The loneliness of the patent-less drug
Colchicine is a very old drug commonly used in gout with an anti-inflammatory mechanism of action that is not well defined. It is a generic (although in the US, …
- By Marc Herant
A triumph for cystic fibrosis patients (and for Vertex)
Phase 3 confirmation that the benefits seen in early trials from triple-combination therapy of elexacaftor, tezacaftor, and ivacaftor, are susta…
- By Marc Herant
Genomic applications and scalability
Two very different papers about applications of genomics, one for a very common clinical scenario, the other for an ultra-rare disease.
It is well known that while…
- By Marc Herant
Best care vs. good care
In wealthy countries, the recommended standard of care can often lead to complex medication regimens requiring frequent follow-ups: this can be very challenging for people who …
- By Tory Wolff
Last month, Warburg Pincus closed on previously announced plans to acquire a major multi-specialty practice in northern New Jersey (Summit) and combine it with an urgent care network centered in the N…