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Saving Money, Saving Lives: Replacing Emergency Air Transport with Telemedicine

GlobalMed

When a medical emergency hits – say, a car accident or a heart attack – no one’s first concern should be about the price tag attached to the ambulance or medical air transport. Once the local dialysis community realized what was happening, they began avoiding Summit Hospital. Consider Summit Hospital in Arizona.

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Breaking the Cycle of Financial Toxicity

GlobalMed

at least, we now expect that extensive medical treatment – whether that’s chemotherapy, ongoing dialysis visits or surgery to repair a broken femur – may involve significant medical bills. Depending on where you live, healthcare is almost synonymous with high expenses. In the U.S. But given that U.S.

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$100+ Billion spent on myriad of acquisitions across Pharma and Biotech industries in H1 2018

Lloyd Price

As BioSpace noted when the deal was announced, Takeda will also take on a significant amount of debt through the deal, sending the price tag closer to $80 billion when that amount is included. The deal will help open U.S. markets for Japan-based Takeda and Shire’s drugs will have easier access to markets in Japan.

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