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- 09 Apr 2019
- News
Finding a Fix for Food Allergies
photo by Stu Rosner Food allergies affect 30 million Americans and one in 12 children, sometimes triggering life-threatening reactions. Yet there are no approved FDA treatments or cures. These sobering facts became alarmingly real to... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Mara Aspinall
accordingly. In several areas of oncology, particularly blood cancers, we have also moved close to full acceptance. Is there a role for the FDA to play in bringing personalized medicine more into the mainstream? The View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
The Power of Philanthropy
Boston Globe (February 9, 2012). “Joe could have turned away and said he hates this disease, but he didn’t,” said C. Richard Mattingly, COO of the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation. “He led us. He wasn’t working to save Joey’s life. He was working for others who still had a... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Fighting the diabetes epidemic using mobile phones
scientists, and clinicians work together,” says Jena, whose product is now being piloted at three major hospital centers across India. He expects US FDA approval for their product by November 2014. (Published April 2014) View Details
- Fast Answer
Biotech, Medical devices, and Pharmaceuticals: regulatory information
Tip: may use the search function to have a jump start. Nexis Uni – IP cases, case law, government document. FDA Regulatory Information portal Emergo -- Web site of regulatory consulting firm provides... View Details
- 31 Oct 2004
- Research & Ideas
Bypass Marketing: Are Docs Influenced?
directly to consumers as we have come to know it was first advocated by the pharmaceutical industry in 1981. In 1983, the FDA requested a voluntary moratorium on such advertising in order to study its likely effects. The View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Fixing What Ails the Drug Industry
In 2008, private investors and the National Institutes of Health plowed more than $100 billion into pharmaceutical research. And yet, “We’re not seeing the new diagnostics, treatments, preventative approaches, and cures that we might have expected,” View Details
- Fast Answer
Pharmaceuticals: Pipeline
Profiles cover detailed information such as alternative names, therapeutic uses, FDA actions and licensing changes, companies associated with development of the drug, etc. To begin a search, use the function BI PHRM DEX, select... View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Daniel Vasella
(twenty years in the United States), and the other is the solidity of the patent. Regarding length, it’s a sensitive point. If we have delays in FDA regulatory approval because more questions are being asked, or if we are more diligent... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
2017 in Health Care: Telemedicine Has Arrived
drug and the FDA says it is safe and effective and doctors prescribe it, insurance generally will pay for it. But everyone is getting fed up with that approach—the ‘Pharma bro’ Martin Shkreli did not help—and we’ve reached a critical mass... View Details
- 23 Mar 2020
- Research & Ideas
Product Disasters Can Be Fertile Ground for Innovation
submitted to the FDA. Comparing the new patent applications for safety-related features to other features of radiation diagnostic devices, they found an increase of over 100 percent in the five years after the shock relative to before. Comparing View Details
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
Off Script
because the present ratio in pharma R&D spend is in the high teens. The best way to improve the cost of prescription drugs is to improve the supply of new drugs. The two best approaches to this are modernizing the FDA so it gets a “pro-... View Details
- 01 Sep 2015
- Blog Post
Building a Startup at HBS
next steps are to ensure we have all the necessary FDA approvals, to get more of our product units into the hands of doctors and nurses in hospitals, and to begin the sales process with the hospitals from which we originally received... View Details
- 05 Dec 2019
- Blog Post
Addressing Unmet Needs in Health Care Using an MBA
guidelines from FDA on regulatory pathway for software based products or GDPR framework for security etc. has opened the field for significant investment and adoption of technology in health care. I think today is a great time to be in... View Details
- 29 May 2001
- Research & Ideas
Genomics: Can We Start Making Money Now?
about genes. Human trials, for example, could involve specially targeted participants who are most likely to benefit or have adverse effects from a potential drug. The question is, said Lilly's Lechleiter: will the FDA accept that... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Drug Imports a Hot Topic at Alumni Health-Care Conference
FDA Commissioner Mark B. McClellan doesn’t approve of Americans buying low-cost prescription drugs from Canada or over the Internet. But he understands what drives them to do so. At the HBS Health Industry Alumni Association’s fourth... View Details
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
Pricing Paradise
eliminated; a 20 percent loss due to budget cuts was deemed a realistic possibility.) The researchers adopted the “willingness-to-pay” methodology that federal agencies such as OSHA and the FDA use to determine how much people would pay... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 06 Sep 2016
- News
The Solution That Doesn’t Get Discussed About How to Get More Women On Corporate Boards
women 100% of the open seats and potentially create more openings: Interview the women first. It doesn’t need to be tested by the FDA before corporate boards across America try it. Trewstar has done it over 30 times, and it always works.... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Your Own Medicine
spur further developments. John Crowley's (MBA 1997) quest to conquer Pompe disease began when his son and daughter were diagnosed with the rare, often fatal neuromuscular disorder in 1998. He helped push the development of the first-ever treatment for Pompe, approved... View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
The Right Connections
impact on the size of the start-up's IPO. "Downstream social capital was essential in attracting the interest of a top investment bank and getting a high valuation for the IPO," Higgins says. Such downstream connections can be valuable sources of information about the... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross