Tag Archives: Medicine
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What are new antibiotics really worth?
Antimicrobial resistance is one of the greatest challenges of our time, but few new antibiotics are currently in development. The NHS is testing the world’s first subscription-style payment model in an attempt to change this
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Fighting to slow the rise of medical fraud
Image manipulation has been a part of modern life for years, but when medical images are being manipulated, lives and livelihoods could be at stake
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How the connected lab can transform drug development
Automation is already showing great potential in helping researchers cut wasted time and increase productivity
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What is a dermatologist?
The alarmingly small number of qualified dermatologists in the UK must be addressed, along with a widespread misunderstanding of what they actually do
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Why buyers’ clubs are the last option for desperate families
How an ongoing pricing battle between the NHS and an American biopharmaceutical giant led to a buyers’ club for cystic fibrosis drugs in the UK
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Better patient compliance could save millions
Digital medicine could provide the answer to the costly questions of patient compliance and failure to follow medical advice correctly
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Why won’t doctors prescribe medical cannabis?
Despite last year’s change in the law legalising the supply of medical cannabis, NHS patients in need are still being refused prescriptions
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Pill journey along complex supply chains
New technologies, such as the cloud and artificial intelligence, have transformed pharmaceutical supply chains from materials supplier to manufacturer, wholesaler to pharmacy and on to patients