January 15, 2019 |
Conducting the Marketing/Business Due Diligence Early in Product Development Can Avoid Issues and Problems Later in Development and Post Launch |
Introduction: There must be two key ingredients for a company to be successful: 1) good science; and 2) good business/marketing. We know that if one doesn’t have good science, the product won’t work. We also know that one needs good marketing to market and sell the product. The controversy is when and how important is it for marketing to be involved in product development. Read more |
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February 15, 2019 |
Thinking Outside the Box in Fighting Cancer |
Scientists have been working to develop drugs that can either stop the progression of cancer or result in the patient being cancer free with drugs such as Immuno-oncology (IO) drugs for years and have found success with some drugs while others have failed. But cancer is very complex as there can be subsets of a subset within specific type of cancer making it difficult to understand how they survive and evade cancer drugs. Read more |
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March 15, 2019 |
3D Printing – Where Are We Today? |
When 3D printing hit the market every industry including the medical profession started using 3D printing for practically everything. People were exciting because it was new and there were endless possibilities. Read more |
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April 15, 2019 |
Digital Health: Is This the Future of Healthcare? |
When we talk about Digital Health, it is very complex and there are many divisions of digital health that can get confusing since each division has its own terms and acronym. I will try to italicize these “buzz” words in each segment. Read more |
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May 15, 2019 |
Future Trends in Remote Monitoring Medical Devices |
In last month’s newsletter entitled “Digital Health: Is This the Future of Healthcare?” I mentioned there are four (4) market segments that digital health tools can help to delivery better healthcare: 1) In the hospital; 2) Outside of the hospital; 3) Clinical Trials; and 4) Clinical Research. Read more |
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June 15, 2019 |
Is a Single- Payer System or “Medicare-for-All” the Answer? |
Our current healthcare system is broken and needs to be fixed. But will a single-payer system resolve the problem because other country’s single- payer systems look attractive from the outside and anything would be better than our current system? Read more |
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July 15, 2019 |
Updates in Solving the Mystery of Alzheimer’s Disease Pathology |
Today, Patient Advocacy groups are very influential in getting legislation and FDA to pass bills for those patients who are either critically ill, have exhausted all possible FDA approved treatments in the market or are not eligible for a clinical trial to be allowed to try an investigational drug under certain criteria. Read more |
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August 15, 2019 |
The Pros and Cons to Legalizing Marijuana |
Background 1) For those who are history aficionados, can you tell me the first state and year that legalized medical marijuana? Many of you may have guessed which State, California for being the most liberal state, but many may not have realized that California pass their medical marijuana initiative on November 5th, 1996 known as Proposition 215. Read more |
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September 15, 2019 |
How Does Marijuana Affect the Brain and Body? |
Last month I discussed the pros and cons to legalizing marijuana and from a health perspective, people may not realize how it affects our brain and body both short and long-term. Scientists studying the effects of marijuana made several discoveries: Read more |
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October 15, 2019 |
Regulatory Updates: Some Good News and Additional EU Requirements |
The FDA has made great strides in working with industry in developing new programs and guidance for expediting the approval of life saving drugs and medical devices particularly in the area of oncology and rare diseases in the last ten years. Read more |
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November 15, 2019 |
Happy Early Thanksgiving |
Thanksgiving is time to reflect on what we are grateful for in our lives. Sometimes we get so busy dealing with problems and situations that overwhelm us, we don’t realize the good things. Read more |
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December 15, 2019 |
Home for the Holidays |
The holiday season is a time to relax and enjoy doing things with your family, loved ones and friends. So gather around the fireplace, the dinner table or where ever your favorite place may be and enjoy yourself. Time waits for no one nor can you get time back. Read more |
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