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The Infomercial Comes to The Wall Street Journal

Sensible Medicine

For calcium deposits in breast arteries to be important, we would need to know that some action based on this finding, whether it be further diagnostic testing, lifestyle modification, or medical therapy, actually benefits a woman. This finding suggests an increased risk of coronary artery disease; clinical follow up recommended.”

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Prescriptions Are Up, Health Services Utilization Down, and GLP-1s Are a Major Growth Driver: IQVIA’s 2024 Update

Health Populi

In the past year, the growth of prescription drug utilization and spending has much to do with the use of GLP-1 agonists to treat diabetes and obesity, along with immunology therapy, and lipid meds, along with specialty medicines now accounting for over half of spending — up from 49% in 2018.

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Primary care news round-up (13th June to 19th June 2024)

Practice Index

The campaign was launched following a survey of practices undertaken in December. It shows that last year, just 35% of patients usually saw their preferred GP, compared with 50% in 2018. The post Primary care news round-up (13th June to 19th June 2024) appeared first on GP Practice Management Blog.

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The Retail Health Battle Royale in the U.S. – A Week-Long Brainstorm, Day 2 of 5 – Amazon and One Medical

Health Populi

billion investment makes ONEM the third largest acquisition in Amazon’s portfolio, following Whole Foods at $13.7 With PillPack, I wrote here in June 2018 that Amazon got 50 U.S. “It’s easier for them to continue to build up a benefit stack until at some point they said, ‘Hey, you’re already paying me $1,000 a year.

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Tools for Paying Medical Bills Don’t Help Health Consumers Manage Their Financial Health

Health Populi

Key challenges to adopting digital health tools are first and foremost cost, following by interoperability and operational barriers. health citizens’ minds in 2020 leading up to the election. .” health citizens’ minds in 2020 leading up to the election.

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What Person-Centered Interoperability Looks Like: Seqster

Health Populi

We met up last week at the DIA Europe 2022 meeting (Drug Information Association) in the cool SQUARE Conference Center in Brussels, Belgium (my current home base for work and life). In summing up the patient-centered interoperability goal, Ardy summarized: “We’ve created the Mint.com of health data.”

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Peter Attia, Outlive, Cardiology 3.0 and primordial prevention of heart attacks

Sensible Medicine

Designed to help fund good nutritional research with the ultimate goal of reducing obesity and testing the hypothesis that “all calories are equal,” NUSI, unfortunately has floundered and is dead. He now knows these numbers indicate high levels of apoB "but no one bothered to test my apoB number."

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