BMI: A Flawed Measure of Health
It’s time we move beyond BMI and adopt a holistic approach to truly gauge health.
It’s time we move beyond BMI and adopt a holistic approach to truly gauge health.
As the innovative, multi-billion dollar industry expands rapidly, pharma companies must consider how to deliver and differentiate.
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.
Opioids are our most effective tool for treating pain, but what if there were a better way to stop pain without relying on addictive substances? To develop a non-addictive painkiller, scientists have been searching for proteins that appear on pain neurons but not in the reward pathway, and this has been no small task.
In response to emailed questions, the CEO and CTO talk about the immune intelligence startup's Human Immunity Map — a growing database of immune interactions that can support the development of multiplex diagnostics, vaccines and therapeutics.