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- By Marc Herant
Between the very common and the very rare – An opinionated take on NEJM highlights for October 2017
Another tool for prevention in cardiovascular disease
Taking aspirin daily has been standard of ca…
- By Tory Wolff
Back in 2013, Dignity and Optum formed a joint venture for revenue cycle management (RCM) services named Optum360. Dignity contributed processing centers and 1,700 employees in return for ~25% share i…
- By Marc Herant
A new drug to address hard-to-treat severe asthma
In ~10% of people with asthma, traditional therapies do not work well and they have recurrent exacerbations leading them to the ED. Over the past few …
- By Marc Herant
At last, drug prices influence physician usage patterns
Association of Reference Pricing with Drug Selection and Spending (subscriber access); Nitroprusside and Isoproterenol Use after Major Price Inc…
- By Marc Herant
Taking stock: two decades of progress in heart failure:
Here comes a clever study using existing clinical trial data to assess progress in standard of care over time for heart failure. For each trial,…
- By Tory Wolff
On May 10, Highmark and Geisinger announced plans for a clinical joint venture to create community-based care in four rural north-central Pennsylvania counties. The target counties are small (200K liv…
- By Marc Herant
Stent news
First there was angioplasty, then bare stents, then drug-eluting stents, and now the next generation: bioresorbable stents: each generation commanding a significant price premium for the m…
- By Marc Herant
A hammer finds new nails (which happen to be eyeballs)
The insulin growth factor receptor 1 (IGF-1R) was once upon a time a popular cancer target pursued by multiple biopharmas each with their own hum…
- By Marc Herant
Calendaring care
The length of our sidereal year is an accident – we happen to be circling a G2 star from which the habitable zone where free surface liquid water can exist lies at around 150,000,000 …