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...executive of Eclipse, and a practising general physician....
...Its proposition, coupling its traditional behaviour-change programme with medication where appropriate, is backed by multiple medical studies, said Fatima Cody Stanford, an obesity medicine physician and...
...the cost and availability of healthcare....
...They included Vice Media and Envision Healthcare, whose backers included some of the world’s best-known investors. The court filings are instructive....
...Blackstone acquired hospital staffing supplier Team Health in 2016 and two years later, KKR bought physician services and emergency room operator Envision Healthcare for $9.9bn....
...But in today’s financialised healthcare system, it’s more likely to be a private equity-owned “physician staffing” company....
...Eli Lilly, Amgen, Pfizer and Regeneron are among the companies aiming to compete with market leader Novo Nordisk in a category which analysts say is rapidly becoming a healthcare priority and could produce...
...Two companies dominate the emergency physician contracting industry: Envision Healthcare, which is owned by KKR, and TeamHealth, which is owned by Blackstone....
...Its new owners are betting it can continue to increase revenues at double-digit rates and win more customers in the electronic medical records market — particularly among physicians and independent practices...
...That really needs to be made clear,” said Dr Leana Wen, an emergency physician and professor of health policy and management at George Washington University....
...“Their knowledge of data and our knowledge of healthcare can overhaul what we could do [together]....
...Some experts predict it will quickly become Medicare’s largest expenditure for physician-administered drugs. The potential costs go well beyond just the medicine....
...Biogen’s decision to price its newly approved Alzheimer’s treatment at $56,000-a-year has reignited the debate over the high cost of drugs in the US, the world’s largest and most profitable healthcare market...
...Antibody treatments could become an important tool for physicians....
...A version of this article was first published by Nikkei Asia on October 9 2020. ©2020 Nikkei Inc....
...“The magnitude is not overly dramatic but it will probably be made available more broadly and become one of several potential future tools in physicians’ arsenal.”...
...Admitted to hospital for hyper-sedation, physicians recommended she stop using the spray — but her doctor continued to prescribe it....
...Judge Thad Balkman ruled on Monday that the world’s largest healthcare company had caused a “public nuisance” in the state....
...ViiV Healthcare, the specialist HIV company majority-owned by GSK, with US company Pfizer and Japan’s Shionogi as shareholders, announced the results of a 96-week trial — the most lengthy study so far —...
...It also settled a larger case of $600m back in 2007, where three executives pleaded guilty to misleading and defrauding physicians by claiming that OxyContin was less addictive than it was....
...But given sufficiently strong clinical data, physicians would be willing to make the change, she argued....
...It was this statement of corporate social responsibility — crafted decades before the term became overused PR — which he said had guided the world’s largest healthcare company to become a solid, long-term...
...A version of this article was first published by the Nikkei Asian Review on May 5 2019. ©2019 Nikkei Inc. All rights reserved....
...“If you’re a physician working on a clinical trial your experience is probably no different than 20 or 30 years ago,” said Gary Hughes, chief executive of Teckro, a software platform that tries to make the...
...Some analysts said clunky technology left the company vulnerable to competition from better technologies using big data and artificial intelligence to help guide physicians....
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