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...Pfizer’s direct-to-consumer platform is pitched as a healthcare equity initiative through which the drugmaker that helped end the Covid-19 crisis promises to demystify the complex web of physicians, pharmacies...
...data and reinvesting in the health system....
...don’t necessarily save money for Medicare [the federal health insurance scheme],” said Robert Przybelski, a geriatrician at UW Health in Madison, Wisconsin, where about 25 patients have been treated with...
...“We’re positioning the company for the long-term health of the business and the market doesn’t necessarily operate that way,” she said....
...A defeat for UnitedHealthcare in a legal battle over the cost of medical treatment marks a setback for the US health insurer in its battle with private equity firms that have poured billions of dollars into...
...About 1,000 physicians and doctors who own nearly half of Summit Health’s equity will also see a large financial return, according to people familiar with the matter....
...But in today’s financialised healthcare system, it’s more likely to be a private equity-owned “physician staffing” company....
...Health experts say the development of effective medicines to treat obesity that do not appear to have dangerous side effects is helping to ease concerns over weight loss drugs....
...Instead he is among the hundreds of thousands of emergency doctors employed by a private-equity owned physician staffing group....
...“As a mother and a physician, I know that parents, caregivers, school staff, and children have been waiting for today’s authorisation....
...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....
...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...
...Sara Goza, a physician and former president of the American Academy of Paediatrics, said it was important the US Food and Drug Administration looked at the vaccine data as soon as it was submitted by the...
...The health ministry recommends that the third jab should be given between four and eight weeks after the second Pfizer dose, with the approval of a family physician....
...Exits of digital health companies reached record highs in 2020, and are estimated to climb in 2021....
...Reshma Ramachandra, co-chair of the Drug Affordability Action Committee at Doctors for America, said: “In approving aducanumab, the FDA has made every physician’s nightmare come true of forcing patients...
...Some experts predict it will quickly become Medicare’s largest expenditure for physician-administered drugs. The potential costs go well beyond just the medicine....
...“If that was an open market, which means that the physicians and citizens they have the ability to choose which vaccine they will receive, I feel very comfortable that we will have the lion’s market share...
...The physician said the decision to move Mr Trump to hospital was taken in conjunction with doctors from Walter Reed and Johns Hopkins University....
...Antibody treatments could become an important tool for physicians....
...By the time the World Health Organization declared a global pandemic in early March, the company had 20 mRNA candidates in development....
...Essential comment before you go Andrew Hill It is ironic that Donald Trump’s health is now in the hands of highly trained physicians....
...The World Health Organization accidentally published results of the more sceptical study last week....
...In May 2019, he suffered a serious stroke while hosting a party; a physician guest noticed the symptoms and had him rushed to a hospital....
...The US is now consumed by another public health disaster. Yet the coronavirus pandemic could end up exacerbating the opioid epidemic....
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