Tag: economics
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Pharmacy Interventions Shown to Boost Meds Adherence
4 April 2016. Actions by community pharmacists and other customer-assistance programs at Walgreens pharmacies were shown to improve customers’ adherence to medications and reduce their health care costs. Results of the study conducted by health analysts at Walgreens appear in the 1 April issue of the journal Population Health Management. The research team led by Michael…
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Bayer Funding Studies of Honey Bee Health, Management
18 February 2016. Bayer Crop Science is seeking research ideas for improving the health of honey bee colonies in the U.S. Proposals for studies in the $1 million program addressing urgent needs highlighted by Bayer’s Healthy Hives 2020 initiative are due by 1 March 2016. Bees, which play a key role in agriculture, are facing…
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What it Takes to Innovate in the Old Economy
12 February 2016. Innovation is important throughout the modern economy, particularly in established industries that may lack the excitement of hot new sectors like biotechnology. A panel at the American Association for the Advancement of Science, or AAAS 2016 annual meeting today (12 February) in Washington, D.C. examined ways of creating innovation in these legacy…
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Medical Industry Payment Recipients Identified
5 January 2016. An analysis of industry payments to physicians shows cardiovascular specialists and neurosurgeons were the specialties most likely to receive payments from pharmaceutical and medical device companies. The findings appear in this month’s issue of the journal Mayo Clinic Proceedings. The research team from University of California in San Diego, led by radiation…
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More PhDs Heading to Industry, Improve Earnings
11 December 2015. An analysis of recent grant-funded Ph.D. recipients shows a large number of new doctorates taking jobs in industry, particularly with larger companies paying higher salaries. The study of federal and other grant-supported doctorates, conducted by researchers at several universities and policy institutes, appears in today’s issue of the journal Science (paid subscription…
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Study: Records Database Offers Clinical Trial Savings
3 December 2015. A cost-benefit analysis shows pharmaceutical companies could reap sizable savings in their planning and conduct of clinical trials if they made regular use of a European electronic health records database. The study, led by Data Mining Institute in Geneva, Switzerland with co-authors from several pharmaceutical companies, appears in the January 2016 issue…
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Special: The Next Health Care Disruption
– Sponsored Content – This blog post is part of the ‘Think Further’ series sponsored by Fred Alger Management. For more “Think Further” content, please visit www.thinkfurtheralger.com.” The frustration of the physicians comes through, piercing the structured format of a scientific journal. In July 2015, 118 oncologists at leading medical centers and cancer research institutes…
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Antipsychotic Drug Savings Expected as Patents Expire
21 August 2015. Medicaid is expected to save nearly $3 billion by the year 2019 from patents expiring on leading branded antipsychotic drugs, and as generic forms of those drugs replace them. Researchers from University of Maryland medical school in Baltimore made those calculations in a paper published last month in the journal Psychiatric Services…
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Cancer Specialists Offer Plan to Reduce Drug Prices
23 July 2015. A group of 118 cancer specialists proposed steps to reduce the cost of drugs to cancer patients, calling the current system of drug pricing “unsustainable and not affordable for many patients.” Their recommendations appear today in a commentary published in the journal Mayo Clinic Proceedings. Pharmaceutical industry representatives, however, say drugs play…
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Univ. Research Execs See Science Economic Benefits
15 July 2015. Senior research executives at 10 U.S. universities described the benefits of scientific research to their campuses, communities, and nation at a roundtable discussion today in Washington, D.C. The forum, organized by the Science Coalition and Association of American Universities, also described perils of uneven federal research funding as well as related dangers…