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The Top 10 Diabetes Breakthroughs of 2014

Insulin Nation

From artificial pancreas trials to stem cell breakthroughs, 2014 was a big year for Type 1 diabetes news. The two biggest producers of insulin spent a lot of money on attorney fees in 2014 as they duked it out in US courts over a patent dispute. Tandem’s pumps have been the go-to pumps for artificial pump researchers in 2014.

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The Evolution of a Patient Ambassador – Learning from Stacy Hurt

Health Populi

Tallying up the years between her working in physician practice management and the pharmaceutical sector, as well as time spent in health advocacy, “I’ve been 25 years in health care,” Stacy calculated. [To get a sense of what that caregiving experience is like, check out her blog post, Confessions of an Exhausted Caregiver ].

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The T1 Tech/Treatment Roundup: May 2014

Insulin Nation

Lexicon Pharmaceuticals announced that trial participants using its experimental drug, LX4211, were able to lower the amount of insulin they took by 32% in a mid-stage trial. Xeris Pharmaceuticals has announced it is starting Phase II human trials of room-temperature soluble glucagon. A Bullseye for Less Bolus?

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Analysis shows frequent prescribers of opioids receive larger payments from pharma

FierceHealthIT

Doctors who write the most opioid prescriptions get paid the most money from the pharmaceutical companies that manufacture the drugs, an analysis by CNN and researchers at Harvard University found.

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Will Consumers Cross the Cost-and-Trust Chasm Between Prescription Drugs and Hospitals?

Health Populi

patients’ negative views of the pharmaceutical industry in this study was the opioid epidemic. Over one-half of Americans blame pharmaceutical companies as most responsible for the opioid crisis, followed by physicians, whom 39% of health consumers blame, and patients, whom 38% of people blame. Exacerbating U.S.

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Thirona Raises €7.5 Million New Financing to Accelerate the Adoption of its Breakthrough Innovations for Precision Medicine

Healthcare IT Today

Demonstrating consistently high performance across a wide range of diseases and pathologies, Thirona’s LungQ™ platform powers also a growing number of imaging-based exploratory research studies and clinical trials for the development of novel pharmaceutical drugs.

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CitiusTech Acquires Wilco Source, Expands Specialized Salesforce Capabilities for Healthcare & Life Sciences- M&A

Healthcare IT Today

The company has been a Salesforce partner since its inception in 2014 and has built a strong team of healthcare technologists and Salesforce experts with over 450 Salesforce certifications. Risk Evaluation and Mitigation Strategies (REMS) solutions for pharmaceutical companies (Salesforce Health Cloud).