LONDON (Reuters UK) - GlaxoSmithKline GSK will split its drug discovery researchers into much smaller teams that will compete for $1 billion (502 million pounds) a year in funding from a new panel, the Financial Times reported on Wednesday. The aim is to foster greater innovation,...
Without question, hormone replacement therapy has become the most controversial issue in menopausal gynecology. The WHI study was designed in 1991-1992 to determine the role of long-term therapy with either unopposed estrogen ET or combined estrogen and progestin EPT in postmenopausal women's health. For the evaluation of long-term ET, the...
Patients for whom the cost of drugs is a barrier to treatment for chronic conditions have a variety of optionsù from discount card plans tied to Medicare eligibility soon to be replaced by the Medicare Part D prescription program to drug-company-sponsored prescription assistance plans. Knowing the way these plans work...
The paper outlines that faced with fewer blockbusters in the pipeline, crowded therapy areas and aggressive generic entrants, pharmaceutical companies are recognizing the need to take a more strategic and rigorous approach to not only developing and maintaining new brands, but also to maintaining and evolving established brands for maximum...
Japanese pharma is entering the brave new world of personalized medicine, and the BIO show in Chicago in April brought with it an innovative company that is exploring new cancer treatments. Established three years ago, Green Peptide Co., Ltd. (Fukuoka, Japan) is developing targeted immunotherapies for malignant brain tumors and...
Although FDA-approved Alzheimer's disease AD treatment strategies cholinesterase inhibitors and memantine offer proven benefits, providers recognize unmet needs beyond what is currently available. This review highlights the urgent need to systematically test additional rational drug combinations and the need for future trials to enroll adequate sample sizes and utilize relevant...
Process changes in manufacturing are often done by trial and error, even when experienced domain personnel are involved. This is mainly due to the fact that in many domains the number of parameters involved is large and there exists only a partial understanding of interrelationships between them. This paper describes...
The Central Arkansas Radiation Therapy Institute CARTI is a not-for-profit healthcare organization. The CEO recognized that Balanced Scorecard would help her drive change at CARTI, leading to a more strategy-focused organization. As a small non-profit, she didn't know how she could implement the BSC. She approached Balanced Scorecard Collaborative to...
Michigan Nukes Expensive Cancer-Radiation SitesProton Beam Therapy"Because the technology is shiny and new..."No, it is not. Loma Linda University Medical Center has been treating many types of cancer patients since 1990. "Proton-beam treatment may be more accurate — and thus somewhat safer and more effective — than traditional...
The Occupational Therapist, Registered job description template includes the following job summary: To provide, under the general supervision of the occupational therapy director and according to established policies and procedures of the department, diagnostic evaluations and treatment to assigned patients, to help patients reach maximum performance level, and to use...
The Registered Occupational Therapist job description template includes the following job summary: To provide, under the general supervision of the occupational therapy director and according to established policies and procedures of the department, diagnostic evaluations and treatment to assigned patients, to help patients reach maximum performance level, and to use...
The Respiratory Therapy Technician job description template includes the following job summary: To perform pulmonary function testing for diagnosis and measurement of lung capacity and respiratory therapy to treat diseases such as emphysema, chronic bronchitis, asthma, cystic fibrosis, and pneumonia under the supervision of a licensed physician. Additional information available...
The Respiratory Therapy Supervisor job description template includes the following job summary: Assists the department manager in managing the department and to provide respiratory and pulmonary medicine services. Additional information available includes essential job functions, additional responsibilities, and education and experience requirements.
In high-involvement decisions like pharmaceutical therapy choice there are multiple decision points that can make or break a brand's success in driving Rx. It is important that the brand deliver the proper level of education, motivation and support to properly meet the needs of each patient. Further the brand should...
Inflammatory Bowel Disease IBD affects an estimated one million Americans. IBD patients often have difficulty digesting food. As a result, they may require parenteral nutrition intravenous feeding or enteral nutrition tube feeding, medically necessary food products to supplement their diets, and medications. The Research Review Act of 2004 directed GAO...
It is well-known that the number of physical therapy treatment sessions varies over treatment episodes. Information is lacking, however, on the source and explanation of the variation. The purposes of the current study are: to determine how the variance in the number of physical therapy treatment sessions in patients with...
Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy CRT has emerged as an important method to treat patient with symptomatic heart failure with evidence of intraventricular dyssynchrony. Tissue Doppler imaging by echocardiography has been shown to be an excellent tool for the assessment of mechanical left ventricular dyssynchrony and the selection of patients for CRT....
Acute low back pain is a common condition resulting in pain and disability. The primary aim of this study is to investigate if Non-Steroidal Anti-Inflammatory Drugs NSAIDs and/or Spinal Manipulative Therapy SMT in addition to general practitioner advice and paracetamol results in shorter recovery times for patients with acute low...
