A revolution is afoot and the disrupting waves are influencing all sectors. The mystery is how all of this will play out on the national stage.  A recent survey by Reuters shows that close to 70% of Americans are in favor of the single-payer health care compared to the current system. Per Bernie Sanders, US
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Just last week, the Trump administration delivered some surprising news. One of their flagship promises, to remove drug rebates related to Medicare and Medicaid, was being shelved. An array of reasons cited ranged from risk of higher insurance premiums to a potential upheaval of the entire system. This is all part of the continuing debate
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Nothing is more exciting in medicine today than cell and gene therapy (CGT). Not that long ago, it was considered science fiction that a patient’s own cells could actually be modified to fight disease. This is now possible and destined to radically alter a disease course. Being such a new therapy, there are a multitude
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Now that the merger between CVS Health and Aetna is final, there is no better time to update our prior article which provided some interesting tidbits about the retail clinic business. There is no doubt that this marriage of two health care behemoths will generate a lot of upheaval in the public domain, with many
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Welcome to the second post based on the Axios program Beyond 2020: Making Care Affordable. Featuring leading administration, legislative, and industry stakeholders, the goal was to inspire thought on how best to manage the costs of prescription therapies. The first article in this series delved into the topic of the cost of new gene therapies
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Scott Gottlieb, MD being interviewed by Axios’  Bob Herman. A jam-packed hour contemplating the future of health care, just another morning in DC. The Snowfish team heard leading administration, legislative, and industry stakeholders opine on the topic of Beyond 2020: Making Care Affordable, hosted by Axios.  On the docket were Scott Gottlieb, MD Former FDA
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The recent approval of CVS Health’s merger with Aetna is being heralded as nothing less than potentially “transformational” to the health care system. Innovative ideas to help streamline care and encourage cost effectiveness are not new as illustrated by the undefined collaboration between Amazon, Berkshire Hathaway and JP Morgan, nevertheless here is the joining of the consumers,
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Patient recruitment is a critical component for drug development. A troubling statistic from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) reports that more than 80% of clinical trials in the United States (U.S.) fail to meet their patient recruitment timelines. This despite that 30% U.S. pharmaceutical industry’s time dedicated to clinical trials is spent on patient recruitment and enrollment.
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Getting to the source of all that ails you! No side effects! Learn all about it while having a great meal! When one thinks of seminar on stem cell therapy, this is not necessarily what comes to mind. Rather the visual is a scientific symposium in which scientists enthusiastically remark on well-cited studies and hypothesize
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The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, CMS, recently released the latest 2017 Open Payments data, providing now a total of over four years of pharma payment data for analysis. The total database now contains details of over 74 million payments to nearly one million physicians and over four thousand hospitals. Research payments have shown a healthy average annual
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