May is Mental Health Awareness Month. This month, we’re reminded that mental health isn’t a dirty word but something we all have. Sadly, there’s still a lot of stigma around mental health and seeking treatment for mental health concerns. But with each generation, it becomes less of a taboo topic. And, with more awareness comes […]

A significant portion of patients with ulcerative colitis (UC) experience a flareup after dropping their tofacitinib (Xeljanz) dose from 10 mg twice a day to 5 mg twice a day, and only about two thirds are able to recapture clinical response to the JAK inhibitor , a real-world analysis suggests. Patients most likely to experience […]

Researchers from University of California San Diego have found a way to distinguish among hand gestures that people are making by examining only data from noninvasive brain imaging, without information from the hands themselves. The results are an early step in developing a non-invasive brain-computer interface that may one day allow patients with paralysis, amputated […]

Creating niche content is something all brands should do in order to catch their audience at various stages of their buying cycles. Content diversifies your rankings, builds your brand’s recognizability, and helps create more conversion funnels throughout the site. But there’s one huge problem with publishing new content on your site: Time. Few brands can […]

The US Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA’s) Gastrointestinal Drugs Advisory Committee on Friday voted against the accelerated approval of Intercept Pharmaceuticals’ obeticholic acid (OCA) for treatment of nonalcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH) with stage 2 or 3 fibrosis. This is the second time that Intercept has sought FDA approval for OCA in treating NASH. The committee voted […]

News Medical speaks with Dr. Sandor Kasas, a lead researcher at Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne in Switzerland. Here we discuss his recent development of a novel and highly efficient method for rapid antibiotic susceptibility testing using optical microscopy. The new technique, known as Optical Nanomotion Detection (ONMD), is an extremely rapid, label-free, and single-cell […]

To be competitive as a brand, it’s essential to constantly offer value to your customers. Customer value is what makes the wheels of commerce go around. It’s what makes your customers buy from you, engage with you, follow your accounts, give you positive reviews, and recommend you to their friends. If you’re familiar with our […]

Imagine that you are covering for a colleague over the weekend, and you get a call from a patient. The patient is a 36-year-old woman who is 3 days postpartum after a spontaneous vaginal delivery. She has a headache and just arrived home after hospital discharge. She’s calling because after using the blood pressure cuff […]

Closed Loop Medicine Ltd, a leading TechBio company, developing combination prescription drug plus software therapy products that enable personalized dose optimization, and Pharmanovia, a global pharmaceutical company that commercializes novel medicines and revitalizes, extends and expands the lifecycle of established medicines, announced today that they have entered a global co-development partnership. The partnership will initially […]

There are two core metrics that should drive a lot of the decisions you have in your organization; churn & sales. A great agency is constantly studying these two numbers diagnosing them from every angle learning specific areas of opportunity. The more you are able to understand these numbers and what they are composed of […]