The Biopharma Startup: A Heart-Pounding Venture
Here’s how a group of passionate thinkers turned scholarly insights into therapies that could help millions of patients with heart failure.
From Crisis to Consensus: Guidelines Aim to Reduce Over-Prescribing of Abused Drugs
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 […]
Once-Daily Combination Pills Offer More Than Convenience
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. […]
Fighting Obesity: A National Health Issue
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 […]