HLTH 2024, scheduled for October 20-23 at the Venetian Expo Center in Las Vegas, will highlight new programming, a physicians roundtable, generative AI, the shifting landscapes of telemedicine, retail health, women’s health, and lots more. The post Get Ready for HLTH 2024: A Preview Guide appeared first on MedCity News.
Vertex Pharmaceuticals’ acquisition of Crinetics Pharmaceuticals values the company at about $10 billion. Crinetics’s Palsonify could become a new standard of care therapy for acromegaly and the biotech also brings other drugs in various stages of development for endocrine disorders, a new therapeutic area for Vertex. The post Vertex Pharma’s Growth Strategy Leads to Its…
This data note examines the characteristics of nursing facilities and the people living in them with data from Nursing Home Compare, a publicly available dataset that provides a snapshot of information on quality of care in each nursing facility, and CASPER (Certification and Survey Provider Enhanced Reports), a dataset that includes detailed metrics collected by…
If President-elect Donald Trump and a Republican Senate try to roll back reproductive health rights or pursue a widely prophesied national abortion ban, California Attorney General Rob Bonta is poised to challenge him. Two years ago, Bonta, a Democrat who heads the state justice department, directed his staff to draft legal analyses against a possible…
Public debate is growing, but the real path forward lies in defining autism’s biology — and for the first time, we can. The post The Administration’s Autism Plan Is Controversial – But It Also Presents a Vital Opportunity appeared first on MedCity News.
One of the central tensions in pharmaceutical policy is the gap between what a drug is worth and what it actually costs. In theory, a drug’s price should reflect its value — its ability to improve health outcomes relative to the next best alternative. In practice, list prices are set by manufacturers, net prices are shaped by opaque…
CHARLESTON, W.Va. — More than three years have passed since federal health officials arrived in central Appalachia to assess an alarming outbreak of HIV spread mostly between people who inject opioids or methamphetamine. Infectious disease experts from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention made a list of recommendations following their visit, including one to…
The MENA evidence gap for selected portfolios is becoming a commercial liability for drugmakers that could have been prevented at the design stage. The post When Evidence Gap Becomes a Commercial Liability appeared first on MedCity News.
“We’re losing 300,000 people a year to fentanyl that comes through our border. We had it down to the lowest number and now it’s worse than it’s ever been.” — Former President Donald Trump at a July 24 campaign rally in Charlotte, North Carolina Former President Donald Trump claimed at a recent campaign rally that…
The PTC Therapeutics gene therapy, Kebilidi, treats an enzyme deficiency that affects the body’s ability to produce dopamine, a neurotransmitter important for motor control. FDA approval for the product comes two years after it won its first regulatory approvals in Europe. The post PTC Therapeutics Wins First FDA Approval for a Gene Therapy Dosed Directly…