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Americans’ Trust in the Healthcare System Low Compared to Rest-of-World’s Health Citizens

Health Populi

Biotech is roughly tied for second place with consumer health, dropping also by 7 points. There’s another piece of math worth doing here: a chasm between biotech and pharma of 17 percentage points worth of trust — that is the difference between the 55% of American trusting biotech versus 38% trusting pharma.

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Medtech: BrainTale Gathers €4.5 Million to Accelerate the Development of Its Solution for Diagnosis, Monitoring and Prediction of Neurological Disorders

Digital Health Global

With this fundraising, BrainTale aims to provide physicians and pharmaceutical companies with innovative solutions to improve the diagnosis, monitoring and prediction of neurological diseases and disorders, in particular Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s disease, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and traumatic brain injury.

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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 2012 study conducted by European and Australian researchers at the Diabetic Foot Clinic at King’s College Hospital in London found that Apligraf was nearly twice as effective (51.5%