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Fewer Prescribers Are Driving NBRx Than You Think—Here’s Why

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According to a 2021 study by Statista, 40% of prescriptions written in 2005 were for brand-name medications. A recent WriteMD analysis found that of all the doctors who prescribe a given brand-name drug, approximately 20% of them write 80% of the prescriptions. By 2020, that percentage plummeted to just 8%.

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Can holograms help in the frontline fight against pharmaceutical counterfeiting?

European Pharmaceutical Review

These include Meditag serialised hologram labels, first introduced in 2005 and found on all registered medicines in Malaysia to help pharmacists and inspectors detect unauthorised and counterfeit product. The subsequent high percentage of fakes led to doctors losing confidence in the brands and no longer prescribing them.

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Targeting tumours with novel radiopharmaceuticals

European Pharmaceutical Review

He attended the College of the Holy Cross studying Mathematics and Physics and went on to receive his doctorate from the University of Arizona in Applied Mathematics under Professor Harrison H. Barrett at the Center for Gamma Ray Imaging. Dr John Babich is Director, President and Chief Scientific Officer of Ratio Therapeutics.

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Gulf War Illness: How can disease modelling aid the search for a cure?

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He trained in Molecular Biology and earned a doctorate in Genetics from George Washington University, followed by a postdoctoral fellowship at the National Institute of Aging in the Microarray Core. He served as Director of the Lowe Family Genomics Core at the Johns Hopkins University from 2005-15.

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Direct to Patient Healthcare

Healthcare Success

Yeah, for some folks, and you know, and I think my, you know, my role was, I started at Mayo clinic in public affairs on the media relations team in 2000, and then 2003 became manager of the media relations team, and then 2005 heard about this new thing called podcasting at the time which had been invented a year before. Lee Aase: Yeah.

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HealthcareWATCH

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Regular testing with Pap smears and HPV screening can help doctors detect precancerous changes, leading to early diagnosis, and are more effective if they are recommended to patients from their doctors to bring to their attention. FDA UPDATE Aurlumyn (iloprost) injection by Eicos Sciences, Inc. was approved by the U.S.

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Using alkali-metal cation recognition of ?-cyclodextrin to detect lithium ions by MALDI-TOF

European Pharmaceutical Review

Following post-doctoral studies on proteomics at Purdue University, under supervision of Professor Fred E Regnier, Ahmad joined the SMPA laboratory in 2001. About the authors Ahmad Amini is a pharmaceutical assessor at the Swedish Medical Products Agency.

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