Tag: economics
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FDA Issues Final Biosimilar Guidance
The Food and Drug Administration issued its final guidance on regulating the interchangeability of so-called biosimilars with original biologic drugs.
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Race, Economic Divides Emerge on Opioid Treatments
A new study highlights sharp differences by race and funding of prescriptions for buprenorphine, a promising treatment for opioid use disorder.
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Economical, Sustainable Biochemical Process Devised
A chemical engineering lab designed a cost-effective process for a basic raw material to produce chemicals and plastics from plants.
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Infographic – Mobile Phones in Emerging Economies
The Pew Research Center last month reported results of surveys about mobile phone use, conducted in 11 emerging economies.
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Infographic – Mobile Internet Costs Worldwide
Our friends at Statista provide an indication of the cost paid by consumers for transmitting those data over the mobile internet in many countries of the world.
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MIT Spins-Off 32 Start-Ups in 2018
Research done at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2018 led to creation of 32 new start-up enterprises as well as hundreds of licenses and patents.
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Insulin Delivered by Capsule, That’s the Good News
Before we start celebrating the end of injections, we need to deal with a more basic problem facing people with diabetes, namely the rapidly rising cost of insulin.
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Book Review – The Fifth Risk
Michael Lewis describes in a gripping narrative some of those critical life-protecting functions the federal government performs in his new book The Fifth Risk.
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Infographic – Americans Affected by Gov’t Shutdown
Our friends at Statista reported on a survey on how the shutdown is affecting people in the U.S., this weekend’s infographic.
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With Job Security Gone, Here’s What To Do
In the past, most people had one or two jobs during their lifetime. Unfortunately, times have changed.