Jonah, de 8 años, se despertó una mañana de mayo con la cara hinchada y dolor de muelas. Se negó a tomar el medicamento para el dolor que su mamá, Geneva Reynolds, trató de darle. No dormía ni comía y lloraba sin parar. En pocos días, Reynolds estaba tan desesperada que ella y su esposo…
The way we measure ALS progression is failing patients. We are entering a new era of ALS therapeutics but still relying on the same blunt instruments of measurement. The post In the Absence of Objective Measures for ALS, Caregivers are the Only Witnesses. We Shouldn’t Have To Be. appeared first on MedCity News.
Valuing early-stage life sciences companies can be complex. Because product development can take several years and be capital intensive, obtaining an accurate valuation is essential to align management’s, the shareholders’, and current and potential investors’ understanding of estimated value. The post Valuing Early-Stage Life Sciences Companies: The Why, the How, and the Impact appeared first…
This brief provides an overview of oral contraception, discusses private insurance and Medicaid coverage, and reviews strategies to promote and expand women’s access to oral contraceptives.
The first call came just before Thanksgiving last year. She didn’t recognize the phone number, but she answered anyway. “The person said he was an officer of the Department of Criminal Investigations looking into drug trafficking and money laundering,” the woman recalled. He seemed to know a lot about her: the states where she and…
Eight-year-old Jonah woke up one May morning with a swollen face and a toothache. He refused the pain medication that his mom, Geneva Reynolds, tried to give him. He didn’t sleep or eat and cried constantly. Within a few days, Reynolds became so desperate that she and her husband had to physically restrain Jonah, dumping…
By MIKE MAGEE What’s wrong in the social science realm of health? Consider for example the mental health crises affecting teens across the nation, or the sharp decline in relationships and child bearing in young adult men and women, or the attack on vaccine policy by the wayward Kennedy, or the attempted dismantling of ACA…
Discrete choice experiments quantify respondent preferences over different alternative treatments due to their attributes. DCE assume individuals are rational and do not pick dominated options (i.e., where one option is weakly better than another option across all attributes and strictly better than the option across at least one attribute). However, Johnson et al. (2019) finds…
Verily and Samsung are partnering to integrate data from Galaxy smartwatches into Verily’s Pre platform. The goal is to create an end-to-end system that pharma researchers can use to deploy wearable devices in studies, analyze patient data remotely and then interpret the results. The post Verily & Samsung Team Up to Bring Smartwatch Data into…
Eight Sleep’s $50 million raise was led by Tether Investments. In total, Eight Sleep has raised over $250 million, and this round brings the company’s valuation to $1.5 billion. The post Eight Sleep Raises $50M to Build Predictive AI for Sleep appeared first on MedCity News.