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The Biopharma Startup: A Heart-Pounding Venture

November 26, 2019

Here’s how a group of passionate thinkers turned scholarly insights into therapies that could help millions of patients with heart failure.

Roshan Chikarmane ⋅ Perspectives in Research heart failure, medication, pharmaceuticals, tech ventures ⋅

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From Crisis to Consensus: Guidelines Aim to Reduce Over-Prescribing of Abused Drugs

October 12, 2018

Every day, 115 Americans are killed by opioid overdose. That this number is so strikingly high underlines the language of ‘“epidemics” and “emergencies” in politicians’ speeches and newspaper headlines. Thousands of articles and millions of research dollars have become components of a concerted effort to understand, quantify and alleviate the opioid epidemic in the United […]

Benjamin Bell ⋅ Perspectives in Research drug abuse, medication, opioids ⋅

Once-Daily Combination Pills Offer More Than Convenience

February 15, 2016

In November 2015, the FDA approved the HIV-1 medication Genvoya, a once-daily pill containing fixed doses of the HIV drugs elvitegravir, cobicistat, emtricitabine and tenofovir alafenamide. This is the latest once-daily medication to be produced to treat HIV, a disease that used to be managed primarily with many different pills taken multiple times a day. […]

Arielle Medford ⋅ Perspectives in Research FDA, HIV, medication ⋅

Fighting Obesity: A National Health Issue

October 20, 2015

It is no secret that weight loss is a major driver in American culture. In 2013, the U.S. weight loss market recorded a total market value of $60.5 billion1. And while there is certainly an aesthetic push behind weight loss culture, achieving a healthy weight is also incredibly important in terms of personal health. Almost […]

Arielle Medford ⋅ Perspectives in Research bariatric surgery, clinical research, diabetes, high blood pressure, liraglutide, medication, Obesity, Weight Loss ⋅

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