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Heal’s Co-Founders Launch New Startup to Help Older Patients & Their Caregivers

MedCity News

Renee Dua and Nick Desai —the husband-and-wife duo who founded physician house call company Heal in 2014 — have launched another healthcare startup.

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Competition is on the horizon for costly narcolepsy treatments

pharmaphorum

Both the physician and the patient have to be registered and the drugs can only come from a primary source through limited distribution. Furthermore, Molina stated Jazz “suppressed generic competition and raised the price of Xyrem 841% between 2007 and 2014.” This is a practice very common among cancer drugs. About the author.

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Cala® Launches The Cala kIQ™ System, Offering Meaningful Tremor Relief for Patients With Essential Tremor and Now Parkinson’s Disease

Legacy MEDSearch

The Cala kIQ System empowers patients and physicians by providing an on-demand, comfortable, at-home therapy for ease of use and management of action hand tremors. Founded in 2014, the company is headquartered in the San Francisco Bay Area and backed by leading investors in both healthcare and technology.

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How Value Based Health Care Will Impact Medical Sales

Spotio

The move from fee-for-service to value-based reimbursement is a sea change for the healthcare industry. They cite a 24% increase in drug costs per hospital admission in 2014 and a 12% increase in 2015. Home healthcare is not new. Many are predicting a great expansion in the home healthcare field in the coming year.

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Biogen’s $900 million settlement signals scrutiny on speaker fees

Pharmaceutical Technology

In 2009, former Biogen employee Michael Bawduniak filed a lawsuit claiming that Biogen had violated the False Claims Act and the Anti-Kickback Statute by providing millions of dollars to healthcare providers (HCPs) as an incentive to prescribe three of its multiple sclerosis (MS) drugs.

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Why So Many Patient Journeys Miss the Mark

PM360

The challenge to do better has never been greater both in human potential and healthcare system cost. The attending physicians may lack knowledge about the disease, which can lead to misdiagnosis. Biases on gender and race may also exist within the healthcare system that predispose certain symptoms to be overlooked.

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The imperative of fridge-free vaccines

European Pharmaceutical Review

Over his career as a physician and scientist he published 108 papers and 49 patents. It has potential to be applied simply and directly to most existing commercial vaccines. Since vaccines can now be reformulated to meet the relevant WHO guidelines, the route to a future of fridge-free vaccines is open. Available from: [link] q=US10821210B2.