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CRISPR Potential to Overcome Sickle Cell Disease
CRISPR Has the Potential to Snip Out Sickle Cell Disease Sickle cell disease affects about 100,000 people in the United States, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and affects millions of people across the globe. A new technology, known as CRISPR, may change all that. CRISPR is short for “clustered regularly interspaced short […]
Pharmaceutical Trends for 2017: Biosimilars
Pharma Trends 2017: Biosimilars Frank Magliochetti Report The FDA approved 56 new drugs in 2015 and, of these, 33 were specialty drugs and 23 were traditional. One was a biosimilar. Development, approval and acceptance of biosimilars may become an important trend in 2017. The FDA is approving more specialty drugs than ever before and specialty […]
Rising Drug Costs: Trending 2017
2017 Trends: Rising Drug Costs The cost of prescription drugs has been rising rapidly since 2010, and will likely continue to rise in 2017. Frank Magliochetti The largest drug maker in the United States, Pfizer Inc., raised prices on 133 of its U.S. brand name products in 2015. More than three-quarters of the increases were 10 percent […]
Inflammation: Autoimmune Disease and COVID-19
People with autoimmune disease face a number of challenges – their condition can cause pain, skin problems, digestive issues, weakness, muscle aches, stiff joints, and more. Autoimmune diseases and their treatments can weaken immune systems to leave patients vulnerable to infections. These conditions can also cause inflammation around the body, and even in vital organs, […]
Laboratory Management Innovations 2019
The Importance of Laboratory Management Systems Laboratories have been among the heaviest users of information technology since its inception more than 30 years ago. As places where questions are answered and breakthroughs begin, labs have played a defining role in defining and developing information management systems along the way. The global laboratory information management systems […]