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FDA approves drugs faster than ever but relies on weaker evidence, researchers find
14 January 2020 - The FDA has gotten faster at approving new prescription drugs over the past four decades, but ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 09 Jan 2020
FDA real world evidence to be made available on Google Cloud
8 January 2020 - The company is making the agency's open-source MyStudies platform available, enabling for easier access to data for ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 03 Jan 2020
Additional evidence needed to assess histology-independent cancer drugs says paper co-authored by NICE staff
2 January 2020 - Paper looks at how histology-independent cancer drugs might be appraised. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 17 Dec 2019
Report on the collection of under co-payment data 2018-19
17 December 2019 - The report on the collection of under co-payment data 2018-19 is now available. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 07 Dec 2019
Insurer NIB wants access to members’ genetic information
6 December 2019 - Health insurer NIB wants to use genetic information and My Health Record data to calculate the ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 30 Nov 2019
Big data
27 November 2019 - Massive amounts of data are generated on a daily basis that could potentially be harnessed to ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 28 Nov 2019
Medicare bill ‘puts every Australian at risk’
28 November 2019 - A new Medicare anti-fraud bill would put the privacy of every Australian at risk and create ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 21 Nov 2019
The challenges of sharing data in an era of politicised science
21 November 2019 - The goal of making science more transparent—sharing data, posting results on trial registries, use of preprint servers, ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 18 Nov 2019
Biostatistics: a fundamental discipline at the core of modern health data science
28 October 2019 - The value of our health and medical research investment is at risk unless we foster the discipline ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 14 Nov 2019
10 year update on study results submitted to ClinicalTrials.gov
14 November 2019 - A decade after ClinicalTrials.gov launched a database for reporting results of clinical trials, the database includes results ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 12 Nov 2019
Google’s ‘Project Nightingale’ gathers personal health data on millions of Americans
11 November 2019 - Search giant is amassing health records from Ascension facilities in 21 states; patients not yet informed. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 29 Oct 2019
In generic drug plants in China and India, data falsification is still a problem
29 October 2019 - As the generic drug industry faces allegations of data manipulation, headlines about carcinogen-tainted blood pressure medicine, ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 26 Oct 2019
Real-time benefit tools for drug prices
25 October 2019 - Concerns over drug prices and medication nonadherence have led to a search for new strategies to lower ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 22 Oct 2019
Microsoft, Humana partner to ‘reimagine’ health care for ageing boomers
21 October 2019 - Microsoft and Humana are partnering in an effort to improve health outcomes of the health insurer’s ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 12 Oct 2019
Canada's decision to make public more clinical trial data puts pressure on FDA
11 October 2019 - Last March, Canada's department of health changed the way it handles the huge amount of data ...