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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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Asia HealthTech Investment 2018 Report

Lloyd Price

Significantly exceeding 2017 in $ size, and doubling 2016, the Asia ecosystem is fast catching the US. HealthTech does not include Biotech, such as protein research or pharmaceuticals, and also does not include MedDev, such as devices that are implanted into the body. Source : [link]

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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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Genomics Startup Human Longevity’s Valuation Falls 80% from $1.6 Billion down to $310M

Lloyd Price

Existing investors include biotech giant Celgene Corp. , and pharmaceutical entrepreneur Robert Duggan. It had hoped to sell analytics to pharmaceutical companies as they increasingly incorporated genetic sequencing into drug development, these people say. DNA-sequencing company Illumina Inc.,

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A Matter of Trust, Perception, Risk, and Uncertainty – The Big Issues Raised by the Acquisition of PatientsLikeMe and Other Patient Data Transactions

Health Populi

And PLM did business deals with large pharmaceutical companies who wanted the data to advance their research and development efforts – that’s how the PLM business was primarily funded. When this occurred, it didn’t cause more than a ripple of interest outside biotech. But the U.S. citizens’ personal data. Should it be?

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The Remarkable Rise of Pharma’s Reputation in the Pandemic

Health Populi

The reputation of the pharmaceutical industry gained a “whopping” 30 points between January 2020 and February 2021, based on the latest Harris Poll in their research into industries’ reputations. consumers trusted the biotech health industry segment compared with the pharmaceutical segment.

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Two-Thirds of Americans Say Healthcare Doesn’t Work Well, in RealClear Politics Poll

Health Populi

They were less likely to have voted in the 2016 Presidential election, but if they did vote, they were marginally more in favor of Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton for President. Technology, biotech, hospitals, and life science companies would be the health care improvers, most Americans told RealClear pollsters.