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Nurses Earn Highest Grade for Care Far Above All Other Health Care Workers — Including Doctors — In Latest Gallup Poll

Health Populi

The pharmaceutical industry and health insurance companies garnered 3 in 10 people rating them as excellent/good, with nursing homes at the bottom a 2.5/10 The second chart arrays the historical trend downward for all healthcare players (except walk-in/urgent care clinics) looking back to 2003 to 2023. health system.

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GE HealthCare Announces Agreement to Acquire MIM Software

Healthcare IT Today

Recognizing the industry transformation taking place as digital innovation reshapes the experience of patients and providers, GE HealthCare – a leading global medical technology, pharmaceutical diagnostics, and digital innovator – is focused on developing smart devices, aligned to disease states and enabled by digital.

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The Funding Spree for Neuroscience Startups: Venture Capital, Angel Investors, and Big Pharma betting big on Neuroscience

Lloyd Price

In October 2018, pharmaceutical giant Pfizer and private-equity firm Bain Capital LP announced the formation of Cerevel Therapeutics LLC, a drug-discovery collaboration for central nervous system disorders. A number of pioneering companies and investors are addressing the growing problem of neurodegenerative diseases with large monetary bets.

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Advocate Counters the Fake News About Buying Insulin Online

Insulin Nation

According to Levitt, public opinion about the online marketplace is shaped by a lot of false information coming from the pharmaceutical industry, and it’s time to set the record straight. But contrary to the pharmaceutical industry’s alarmist rhetoric, not all online pharmacies fall into this category.

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Will Foot Ulcer Treatment Survive Medicare Rollback?

Insulin Nation

Shire Pharmaceuticals has created Dermagraft, a similar human cell-based dressing that also has become popular for treating diabetic foot ulcers. A 2003 study on Dermagraft undertaken throughout 35 U.S. to 26.3%) as traditional wound care in closing diabetic foot ulcer wounds during a 12-week test period, for example.

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Voting for Health in 2020

Health Populi

In 2003, Denise wrote that, “eHealth is the means to deliver responsive healthcare tailored to the needs of the citizen,” invoking that “C”-word quite purposefully. He was the first person to speak to me about “health citizenship.”.

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