Attention healthcare: Take these lessons from Hollywood
At the MedCity ENGAGE conference in San Diego on November 6-7, panelists like Oscar-winning producer Ed Saxon will explain what the healthcare industry can learn from Hollywood.
Healthcare and pop culture collide: Jennifer Lawrence to play Elizabeth Holmes
Healthcare just won't stop colliding with pop culture, will it? In the wake of news about a Martin Shkreli musical, we also learn that athenahealth boss Jonathan Bush has responded to John Oliver.
L.A.’s affluent anti-vaxxers may be behind city’s whooping cough epidemic
With the threat of a deadly whooping cough epidemic descending on Los Angeles, the chinks in our post-industrial herd immunity are starting to show – among America’s most affluent. The anti-vaxxer movement has a growing stronghold among Hollywood parents – vaccination rates in the region’s schools are in free fall. Indeed, the situation’s “leaving some schools’ immunization rates on par with […]
Reminder patient information’s still safer than it once was: Marilyn Monroe’s x-rays + medical records up for auction
While many still worry about patient privacy and the security of medical and health information, a former diva’s medical records prove technological progress is not at the center of medical privacy invasion. Marilyn Monroe’s x-rays and medical records are up for auction at Julien’s Auctions, and are expected to sell for $20,000 to $30,000, Vanity […]
Need your dose of medical marijuana? Fingerprint, please
As biometrics has evolved from the stuff of James Bond plot lines to an increasingly common security tool, the healthcare industry is beginning to take an interest to better protect patient data and prevent ID theft. One healthcare entrepreneur has used fingerprint identification as a cornerstone of its medication dispensing technology. Medbox Inc. (OTC: MDBX) […]
Psych meds get their Hollywood moment in upcoming movie (video)
The side effects of an anxiety drug are at the heart of a Hollywood movie coming out next week that’s liable to give the pharmaceutical industry some anxiety of its own. Although the drug at the heart of the movie, Ablixa, is fictional (it even has its own fake ad on YouTube), it’s more than […]
A Deep-dive Into Specialty Pharma
A specialty drug is a class of prescription medications used to treat complex, chronic or rare medical conditions. Although this classification was originally intended to define the treatment of rare, also termed “orphan” diseases, affecting fewer than 200,000 people in the US, more recently, specialty drugs have emerged as the cornerstone of treatment for chronic and complex diseases such as cancer, autoimmune conditions, diabetes, hepatitis C, and HIV/AIDS.