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- By Marc Herant
Preparing for the next pandemic: don’t waste the value of waste
During the Covid-19 pandemic, I got in the habit of checking weekly the Boston sewage report, as a reliable, unbiased way of monitoring …
- By Nikhil Bhojwani
What does Socrates have to do with AI? And what's the Spooky Mountain and why we need to conquer it to get to an AI enabled future?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5V10R6lcIl4…
- By Lilian Zhang, Jason Brauner, and Marc Herant
PDF: Trends and strategy in oncology development
Summary
We review a sample of oncology programs from the past decade and arrive at the following key findings:
The use of expansion cohorts in first-i…
- By Marc Herant
Hypertension?!
Antihypertensive drugs are so 80s and 90s (well, except for pulmonary hypertension) to the point that I cannot recall when I last read research in the NEJM about a new blood pressure dr…
- By Jacob Wiesenthal and Sarah Dolman
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The supply chain of pharmaceuticals consumed in the US has become reliant on foreign sources of drug products and intermediates over the last two decades. Growth of generics and bio…
- By Maggie Pickard and Sarah Dolman
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Hematologic cancers account for ~10% of annual new cancer diagnoses and continue to have some of the poorest overall outcomes, particularly for older adults.[1] Ho…
- By Marc Herant
An unusual article on road safety
Motor vehicle accidents are a major share of morbidity and mortality in the young, and as such prevention has long been considered a medically adjacent area (e.g. wit…
- By Marc Herant
A psychedelic for refractory depression
While major depression is awful, treatment-resistant depression (as defined not responding to at least two different courses of therapy) is worse with sufferers…
- By Tory Wolff
Back in 2018, I offered a speculation about what Amazon might do in healthcare as part of its now defunct joint venture with JPMorgan and Berkshire Hathaway. The focus was on doing what Amazon is re…