Search Tag: drugs

Executive Health Management

Labs-and-drugs

2021 26 Nov

The delivery of high-quality healthcare and the effective treatment of acute and chronic illnesses cannot be achieved without drugs with high efficacy and safety and with laboratories working in the background to undertake basic research and understand the processes behind diseases, mechanism of action of different molecules and presentation of symptoms...Read more

IMAGING Management

Rsna-2019-focused-ultrasound-may-open-door-to-alzheimer-s-treatment

2019 03 Dec

The blood-brain barrier (BBB) is a network of blood vessels and tissues that protects the brain from foreign substances. BBB poses a challenge to scientists working on new treatments because it also blocks potentially therapeutic drugs from reaching targets inside the brain.     You might also like: PET Imaging Tool Measures Synaptic...Read more

Executive Health Management

The-death-of-cancer-the-patient-perspective

2019 26 Aug

Summary: Cancer affects everybody's life at some point. ‘The Death of Cancer,' written by one of oncology's leading figures, Dr Vincent T. DeVita, documents his own journey for the cure. Dr Peter Kapitein gives his personal review on the book.   In 2005 I was diagnosed with lymph gland cancer and became interested in the medical industrial...Read more

Executive Health Management

Reducing-risks-and-generating-economic-benefits-2

2019 26 Aug

Did you know that IV filtration in an intensive care unit (ICU) could help to reduce risks and generate economic benefits?   Introduction   Intravenous administration of fluids and drugs is an important part of patient care for the critically ill. However, the contamination of infusion solutions by particles is a largely unknown and underestimated...Read more

Executive Health Management

A-human-centric-approach-for-data-collection

2019 22 May

The promise of personalised medicine     Based on extensive market research, the precision medicine sector is fast becoming a multibillion market. It consists of innumerable companies involved in the research and development, manufacturing and commercialisation of several novel drugs and diagnostic kits to boost the precision medicine workflow...Read more

Executive Health Management

Leveraging-advanced-methods-to-evaluate-ai-pharma-companies

2019 22 May

The level of sophistication used in due diligence should be on par with the level of complexity in a given industry.  AI-Pharma companies are 100 times as complex as FinTech companies. Methodologies used to assess them should be 100 times as rigorous. Discovering new drugs using AI is one of the most challenging areas in biological...Read more

Executive Health Management

3-ways-to-contain-medicine-costs-and-shortages

2019 08 Jan

With drug prices and supply often at odds with each other, for example when supplies are plentiful but costs reach sky-high levels, what can a hospital exec do to mitigate the impact on operations? Pharmacy directors at three health systems give their views.   Create your own drug company   Trinity Health, based in Livonia, Michigan,...Read more

ICU Management

Immediate-type-hypersensitivity-reactions-in-the-icu

2018 01 Jun

For the ICU patient, correct and timely diagnosis of drug hypersensitivity is required to administer emergency epinephrine treatment, and retrospective allergological investigation is needed to identify the culprit drug and safe alternatives. For ICU departments, epidemiological data regarding the incidence of drug-induced immediate-type hypersensitivity...Read more

Executive Health Management

Asia-pacific-drug-formulation-bioavailability-congress

2016 05 Sep

Asia Pacific Drug Formulation & Bioavailability Congress”  which will be held from September 05-07, 2016 in Beijing, China.  In this regard, we would like to have your cooperation as media partner for our upcoming conference and galvanize the scientific community.   Formulation-2016 Theme: Advanced Formulation perspectives for Comprehensive...Read more

Executive Health Management

New-and-advanced-therapy-for-chronic-inflammatory-disease

2014 29 Jul

The pharmaceutical industry and scientific researchers are developing new and improved drugs for the treatment of chronic inflammatory diseases. According to statistics, there are approximately 300 million people who suffer from asthma worldwide. There are an additional 600 million who live with chronic pneumonia. Nearly 30% of the global population...Read more

Cardiology Management

Testing-drugs-with-a-simulated-human-heart

2014 24 Jul

Dr. Helen Maddock, a Coventry University Scientist and an expert in cardiovascular physiology and pharmacology from the University's Centre for Applied Biological and Exercise Sciences, has developed a new technique that uses samples of beating heart tissue to test the effect of drugs on the heart. This is done without using any human or animal trials....Read more

Executive Health Management

Eahp-apps-involving-medicines-should-have-pharmacist-oversight

2014 08 Jul

The European Association of Hospital Pharmacists (EAHP) has responded to a consultation by the European Commission advising that any mHealth applications linked to the use of medicines must have levels of regulatory oversight, ideally involving pharmacist expertise, in order to ensure their safety.
 The European Commission launched a consultation...Read more

Executive Health Management

Frost-sullivan-volume-rises-value-falls-for-healthcare-m-a-deals

2014 13 May

Patent expiry, together with an increase in generic competition in the global pharmaceutical and biotechnology industry, is expected to bring a number of deals. According to newly released analysis from Frost & Sullivan entitled “Merger and Acquisition (M&A) Trends in the Global Pharmaceutical and Biotechnology Industry”, evolving conditions...Read more

Health Management

Pharmacy-and-health-it

2014 08 Mar

Author John Chave Secretary General Pharmaceutical Group of the European Union A patient walks into a European pharmacy. She hands a paper prescription to the pharmacist. The pharmacist is unfamiliar with the prescriber, and struggles at first with the handwriting, but after a call to the physician, the medicine and its dosage are...Read more