As of October 11th, Rubraca (Rucaparib) has been approved for NHS use by NICE in its final draft guidance (NICE, 2019). The drug, developed by the University of Newcastle, will benefit women with...
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NICE deems Rubraca® cost effective for the NHS to treat Ovarian Cancer
The health implications of e-cigarettes
As the scientific understanding and awareness of the detrimental effects smoking tobacco has on the lungs has grown, it has concurrently led to an increase in cigarette substitutes in order to...
A New Era of Contraception
With an ever-growing societal attitude of equality and the push forward towards feminism, there is a desire for the development of a male contraception in order to have both individual and shared...
Challenges surrounding CNS drug discovery
The central nervous system (CNS) compromises the brain and spinal cord and is the most complex system in the human body; consisting of an estimated 100 billion neurons, each connected to thousands...
The Opioid crisis in North America
Opioids are the most commonly prescribed medications to manage chronic pain. They work by lowering pain signals the body sends to the brain, they also alter how the brain would react to pain. Opioids...
Challenges Of Changing Clinical Guidelines To A Patient Driven Market Forecast
Patient-based forecast models follow patient cohorts through a framework which is the forecasters best understanding of a markets dynamics at a given time. Each forecast tells a story through...
Amazon’s Healthcare Push - Moving Forward with Digital Healthcare
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) recorded $3.5 trillion in National Health Expenditures (NHE) in 2017 which accounts for 17.9% of the U.S. GDP, and projected the NHE to...
Abilify MyCite was approved in November 2017 by the FDA. The medication contains aripiprazole with an ingestible sensor that digitally tracks whether the patient has taken it. It aims to address...
Data driven medicine is patient-centred medicine
Artificial intelligence (AI) refers to intelligence demonstrated by technology rather than human intelligence. It is used in many platforms ranging from business sectors to educational...