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- 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…
- By Marc Herant
Is Parkinson’s α-synuclein going to be as elusive a target as β-amyloid has been for Alzheimer’s?
Alpha-synuclein aggregates are characteristic of Parkinson’s disease and genetic variants of this prot…
- 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…