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- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Quantum Leap
day quantum computing becomes a reality is the day conventional digital security ends.) They should even be able to do things that digital computers cannot do at all, like realistically modeling molecules for more efficient drug discovery... View Details
- 01 Mar 2024
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts
will solve real problems, from climate change and hunger to obesity and menstrual pain. They envision a future in which biotechnologists work from a platform that enables them to develop effective drugs within months for any emerging... View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Remix
of naming names in the music industry are still playing out today, she says. But for all the costs associated with speaking her piece, the #MeToo movement inexorably altered the direction of Dixon’s life, right up to this moment where she... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
The Long Run
Langford’s pitch is this: The cost of the opioid crisis to the state of Georgia is undetermined but vast, with a conservative estimate in the range of $10 to $15 billion. With an $8.7 million investment dedicated to a second-generation... View Details
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
Off Script
(Thinkstock) Prescription drug spending increased by more than 13 percent in the United States in 2014, raising health insurance premiums and the ire of consumers and politicians. The reasons behind the rise... View Details
- 01 Jan 2003
- News
Daniel L. Vasella, M.D.
poverty level. As a result, about 1 million participants in the United States alone receive a 25 to 40 percent discount on their prescriptions for a wide variety of illnesses. Internationally, the company provides free leprosy medication,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Health IT at the Bedside
prescription from CVS and automatically check for any drug interactions. The hospital, like many community hospitals and doctors’ offices, did not have electronic records, but his office did. Would he ever... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
How to Close the Health Gap
hepatitis B from $20 to $1. “Close to consumers, they understand the local market and health-delivery infrastructure,” write Daar and Singer. “They have the potential to invent and develop drugs at far lower View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
How Deep Brain Stimulation Could Change Medicine
targeted approach gives Bennet hope that Harmoni can benefit not only people suffering from movement disorders, but also a whole class of psychiatric patients who, until now, had few options beyond prescription View Details
Keywords: Janelle Nanos
- 20 Aug 2014
- News
With No Time to Lose
development and realized two things: First, without industry involvement there can’t be a treatment for ALS, because developing a single drug costs hundreds of millions of dollars. Second, that View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
The Race Against Resistance
causes pneumonia in ICU patients. When the drug goes to market, the company plans to have data to back up its price. “If we say, for instance, that we can wean a patient off a ventilator three days sooner and we get a patient out of the... View Details
Keywords: Lisa Scanlon Mogolov
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
American Dream
local Indian tribes, General Custer’s expedition to the Black Hills, and the last legal hanging in Meade County. (You can still get a prescription filled, too.) Today, Hustead, 53, one of seven children, oversees Wall View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
A New Approach to Health-Care Reform
patients’ needs. Today’s doctors work in a system where they are rewarded by Medicare and insurance companies for the number and cost of the services they provide rather than by the value of those services in helping patients. In short,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
The Best-Laid Plans
failed companies. When Potentia Pharmaceuticals won the contest in 2001 with Alec Machiels (MBA 2001) at the helm, its plan hinged on a mechanism created by a team of Harvard and MIT scientists that used atomic force microscopy in drug... View Details
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Up to the Challenge: Lori Schock - Listen and Learn
insists, “it's theirs.” One opinion that was heard loud and clear during Schock's SA service was a call for a new prescription drug plan for HBS students. Schock was among student leaders who met with... View Details
Keywords: Kathleen Brill
- 01 Jan 2002
- News
Raymond V. Gilmartin (MBA '68)
noncore businesses, including a specialty chemicals group, and expanded significantly abroad, becoming one of the top U.S.-based pharmaceutical businesses in Europe. During this period, Merck also took the lead on a host of pressing social issues, ranging from View Details
- 02 Aug 2018
- News
Can Marketing Help Halt the Heroin Epidemic?
recommended. One was making naloxone available over the counter. That's the overdose reversal drug. Wanted to give wide availability to that drug. And then the second thing that we recommended was a substantial improvement in what's called the PDMP, that's a View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
2017 in Health Care: Telemedicine Has Arrived
help achieve better access to care and a lower cost of care. And employers are embracing telemedicine as a way to provide employees convenient health care at a lower cost for their companies. A survey... View Details
- 15 Dec 2024
- News
After Ozempic
Back before Ozempic, when Kate Mulroney (MBA 1984) spoke at technical conferences about her work at Novo Nordisk, people often assumed she was talking about Novartis. “I’d have to explain that’s a Swiss company; we’re Danish,” says Mulroney, now head of advanced... View Details
- 23 Jan 2019
- News
The Promise of Personalized Medicine
for N=1, individuals, that customizes therapeutics. If you look at drug development thus far in the history of mankind, we’ve focused a lot of our efforts on small molecules, like pills that you would take every day—Lipitor, Viagra, these... View Details