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Features
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Comprehending Climate Change Implications in an Ever-Changing Healthcare System
Climate change and its environmental health implications are significantly ratcheting up healthcare costs and increasingly threaten physicians' ability to protect the health of patients. Continue Reading
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Exploring Antidepressants: Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors (SSRIs)
Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors are the most commonly prescribed medications for treating major depressive disorder, anxiety disorders, and other psychological conditions. Continue Reading
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Major Milestones in Medicine, Drug Development in Recorded History
The past few centuries have witnessed several revolutionary milestones in modern medicine and drug development that have drastically improved human health. Continue Reading
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Defining Precision Medicine and Evaluating Its Healthcare Impacts
Precision medicine is a change from the one-size-fits-all treatment and prevention approach traditionally used in healthcare by examining a person’s genes, behaviors, and environment. Continue Reading
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Understanding the Cognitive and Health Effects of Sleep Duration
Sleep is an essential, life-sustaining function required for maintaining optimal health and well-being, but do we know why? Continue Reading
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Understanding the Science Behind Allergies, Antihistamine Response
Understanding the science behind allergies and the human antihistamine response is complicated, and researchers believe environmental and genetic factors are to blame. Continue Reading
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How Regulation Stymies Medical Research of Controlled Substances
Barriers to medical research constructed by federally controlled substance scheduling and classification stifle the development of safe and effective products aimed to improve overall human health. Continue Reading
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CRISPR Genome-Editing Technology: The Future of Gene Editing
CRISPR genome-editing technology has revolutionized genetic engineering by introducing the ability to alter an organism’s DNA to precision medicine. Continue Reading
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Understanding the Value, Complexity of Clinical Trials in the US
Clinical trials in the US study new drug developments and evaluate the effects in humans. Continue Reading
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Understanding US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Approval Processes
The FDA approvals process is complex and time-consuming, taking an average of 12 and 7 years for drugs and devices, respectively. Continue Reading
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Flu Vaccine Patterns Hint To Effective COVID-19 Vaccination Efforts
Flu vaccine strategies give a glimpse into the challenges of COVID-19 vaccination efforts. Effective COVID-19 vaccine rollout can take several pointers from the flu’s failings and successes. Continue Reading
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What is Medicare Part D, What Does It Mean for Pharma?
Medicare Part D plans fill a coverage gap, giving members voluntary coverage for outpatient prescription drugs. Continue Reading
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Warp Speed COVID-19 Clinical Trials Boost Future Vaccine Development
Vaccine development is generally a time-consuming process, but the unprecedented speed of COVID-19 clinical trials will have implications across the pharmaceutical industry. Continue Reading
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How COVID-19 Is Changing Pharmaceutical Research and Development
As the drug companies hurry to develop a coronavirus vaccine, they are also reshaping the pharmaceutical research and development landscape for the future. Continue Reading