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Recon takes an analytical look behind select developments in healthcare
- By Marc Herant
Preempting severe genetic disease
Around 2% of births come with a genetic disease, often with devastating impact. While some appear de novo (either from germplasm dominant mutations or from chromosomal accidents), a fraction are inherited (from the mother if X-linked, from both parents if autosomal recessive) and can be predicted (before conception) by gene sequencing parents. In a fascinating stu…
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- By David Kaufmann and Marc Herant
PDF: Trends in oncolytic virus therapeutics: then and now
The idea of using pathogens to treat disease is not new; ranging from phage therapy to malariotherapy (resulting in the only Nobel in medicine…
- By Jacob Wiesenthal and Tory Wolff
PDF: Are some of Kaiser’s regional ambitions starting to pay off?
We have produced a new study evaluating developments in Kaiser's regions (outside of California). The report provides an explanation f…
- By Alyssa Idusuyi
About the author: Alyssa Idusuyi is currently a high school senior attending Miss Porter's School (Connecticut). She spent the summer of 2022 with Recon Strategy as a paid intern assigned a project to…
- By Sarah Dolman and Maggie Pickard
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Ex vivo gene-therapies have been a game-changer for aggressive hematologic cancers. These products can effectively cure patients who otherwise had very low chance …
- By Thomas Uhler and Jason Brauner
After the $9.7B acquisition of The Medicines Company two and a half years ago, Novartis is eager to demonstrate value with a successful launch of the primary target of the deal, Leqvio. This launch is…
- By Marc Herant
Tirzepatide in pole position
As previously described in this blog, GLP-1 agonists initially designed to treat glycemia in Type-2 diabetes are emerging as powerful weight loss agents in obesity indepen…
- By Tory Wolff and Thomas Uhler
There isn’t a bricks-and-mortar primary care acquisition out there that is beyond Amazon’s financial reach. While the announcement regarding One Medical has provoked fresh rounds of speculation about…
- By Jason Brauner and Anja Schempf
Download Here: Troubleshooting GT_Recon Strategy 2022
In the last decade, gene therapies have been a major area of development and interest. What kicked off with the approval of Spark Therapeutics’ Lu…
- By Marc Herant
A cell therapy success against a solid tumor
In CAR-T therapies, T-cells are transformed to express an antibody on their surface that allows them to home in on cancer cells and effect killing. This ap…
- By Marc Herant
A step forward for kidney xenotransplantation
A report on the recent, well-publicized, temporary transplantation of kidneys from genetically modified pigs in two deceased individuals at NYU. The kidne…
- By Irina Ahmad
The role of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) in healthcare spans a vast range of potential applications. A view of AI development on clinicaltrials.gov helps to focus this landsc…
- By Marc Herant
The opioid crisis and patient abandonment
A perspective from a February issue that I originally missed highlighting the plight of patients who have been on a long-term opioid regimen for chronic pain.…