Here's how the life science research organizations are taking the news that Trump's budget proposal will chop off $5.8 billion in funding the federal government provides to the National Institutes of Health.
Now is not the time for celebration, but at least the crusade against opioid abuse registered a win in Trump's 2018 budget proposal.
Munck Wilson Mandala Partner Greg Howison shared his perspective on some of the legal ramifications around AI, IP, connected devices and the data they generate, in response to emailed questions.
To get closer to the dream of personalized obesity treatments, we need more data to piece together which combinations of solutions work for which types of people.
Also, Oncobiologics will go public today and University of Pittsburgh Medical Center and University of Pittsburgh's health sciences schools are backing a $5 million Center for Medicine and the Microbiome.
Right now, Clinical Center leadership has little authority within NIH because clinicians and researchers in the hospital report to the heads of NIH's 27 different institutes and centers.
Also, prolific life science entrepreneur and investor Alfred Mann has died and Doctors Without Borders has taken exception to Otsuka Pharmaceutical's tuberculosis treatment price tag.
At the Abarca Forward conference earlier this year, George Van Antwerp, managing director at Deloitte, discussed how social determinants of health and a personalized member experience can improve medication adherence and health outcomes.
NIH health app pilot ends amidst poor data security but where will it go from here?
"When you think about Google and data, people begin to wonder - is my search information going to be used as a mental health biomarker? Or to make a diagnosis? I don't think that's ever likely going to happen," Insel said.
The hope is that this NIH-funded data provenance project will help standardize and reconcile inconsistencies so clinicians have better data to bring to the bedside and run through clinical decision support systems.
The bipartisan 21st Century Cures Act is meant to streamline regulatory approval of devices and drugs through the Food and Drug Administration, as well as provide additional research funding for the National Institutes of Health.
We will highlight Build My Health's revenue practice management tools, which could help physician practices add up to $250,000 to their practices.
The NIH's Neuro Challenge just announced 13 winners - student teams that built business plans around commercializing already-existing NIH technology.
Newt Gingrich is pushing for the GOP-controlled Congress to increase funding for the National Institutes of Health.
There’s been much hype around President Obama’s Precision Medicine Initiative, but how realistic is it to execute successfully? A number of scientists and patient advocates met for an NIH workshop last week to flesh out President Obama’s precision medicine initiative, as reported by Science. How reasonable is it to link up the datasets of the 1 million Americans who will […]
Google shared a few more details on its efforts to bring more accurate, reliable medical information online, detailing some of its main sources and partners. In addition to the Mayo Clinic, other key partners on the effort include Lumiata and VoxHealth. To what extent those two companies are involved is not entirely known, other than […]
Using de-identified patient data from its Down Syndrome Registry, the National Institutes on Health has launched a subsite of its DS-Connect, creating a web portal for approved professionals that are planning clinical studies or recruiting patients to generate new research. The NIH effort with Down Syndrome is intended to increase understanding of the disease and […]