Winway Health Desk
Policy makers should ‘set their sights higher’ on U.S. drug pricing...
Despite massive resistance to pricing controls in the U.S. from drugmakers, bills introduced into the House and Senate are nowhere near as comprehensive in...
Telehealth startup brings gender-affirming care to employee benefits programs
Denver-based startup Plume uses telehealth to help transgender patients access gender-affirming hormone therapy. Photo credit: Plume
Two friends that met in medical school saw an...
FDA Approves Kalydeco (ivacaftor) as First and Only CFTR Modulator to...
BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sep. 25, 2020-- Vertex Pharmaceuticals Incorporated (Nasdaq: VRTX) today announced the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved Kalydeco (ivacaftor) for use in...
U.S. Food and Drug Administration Approves Haegarda (C1 Esterase Inhibitor Subcutaneous...
KING OF PRUSSIA, PA – September 28, 2020 – CSL Behring, a global biotherapeutics leader, announced today that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration...
FDA Approves Bausch + Lomb Alaway Preservative Free (Ketotifen Fumarate) Ophthalmic...
LAVAL, QC and DEER PARK, Ill., Sept. 25, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Bausch Health Companies Inc. (NYSE/TSX: BHC) ("Bausch Health"), Bausch + Lomb, a leading global eye...
Premera to pay $6.85M fine for data breach
Washington-based health insurer Premera Blue Cross will pay a $6.85 million fine to resolve a data breach that could have exposed more than 10...
U.S. FDA Approves Pfizer’s Xeljanz (tofacitinib) for the Treatment of Active...
NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE) September 28, 2020 -- Pfizer Inc. (NYSE: PFE) announced today that the United States (U.S.) Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved...
And the winners of INVEST Digital Health Virtual Pitch Perfect contest...
The INVEST Digital Health conference Pitch Perfect competition from September 21-25 had some intense competition between the healthcare startup participants. In all, 20 companies...
FDA Approves Fetroja (cefiderocol) for the Treatment of Hospital-acquired Bacterial Pneumonia...
OSAKA, Japan & FLORHAM PARK, N.J.--(BUSINESS WIRE) September 28, 2020 --Shionogi & Co., Ltd. (hereafter “Shionogi”) today announces that the U.S. Food and Drug...
We’ve failed in chronic care management It’s time to change course.
The way we manage chronic disease in the United States is fundamentally flawed, and even counterintuitive.
There are different paths an individual can take when...
