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Should doctors refuse to treat obese patients?

World of DTC Marketing

IN BRIEF: Doctors are not required to treat obese patients who won’t do anything to lose weight but the problem is more than reminding patients they need to get exercise and drop pounds. Susan knew she needed to lose weight, especially when her doctor told her that her A1C indicated that she was prediabetic.

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Constipation Patients Are Suffering in Silence—Here’s How to Help Them

PM360

1 Yet, most patients haven’t tried prescription therapies, a discovery Phreesia Life Sciences made after surveying 6,780 adults age 18 and older who previously had been diagnosed with or treated for constipation as they checked in for their doctors’ appointments. Why the disconnect? Give Patients the Resources They Want.

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Top 12 Healthcare Technology Start-ups To Know

Medico Reach

Founder: Tim Barry Year of Establishment: 2013 Headquarters: Chicago, Illinois. Now, the organization is looking at opening over 500 to 700 new doctors’ offices in collaboration with Walgreens by 2025. Founders: Ali Diab and Rajaie Batniji Year of establishment: 2013 Headquarters: San Mateo, California. Collective Health.

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How Pharma Companies Can Benefit from eatNgage

eatNgage

The implementation of the Sunshine Act in 2013, was a game changer for the pharmaceutical sales process. Research has shown that doctors who are treated to a meal by pharmaceutical reps, are more likely to prescribe the promoted drug. For Guests. Case Studies. Integrations. How Pharma Companies Can Benefit from eatNgage.

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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. He has over 20 years of research and business development experience in Nuclear Medicine. Barrett at the Center for Gamma Ray Imaging.

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Make Programmatic the Foundation of Your Omnichannel Approach

PM360

If you only want to reach these doctors and you have significant spend in one location, you run the risk of reaching those National Provider Identifiers (NPIs) too frequently, which can have negative consequences. I wasn’t always this way but working agency side at three of the big holding companies, I began to see shifts as early as 2013.

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UK agency pilots biobank to study links between genetics and drug side effects

Pharmaceutical Technology

This would ideally allow doctors to use rapid genomic screening tests that can help them to select the safest potential treatment for a patient. The 100,000 Genomes Project was initially announced in December 2012, with Genomics England being launched later in July 2013.