Can Data-Powered Comparative Effectiveness Research Save Healthcare?

Can Data-Powered Comparative Effectiveness Research Save Healthcare?

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Last year the database was launched to allow researchers and clinicians to look for potential connections between diseases, treatment options and risk factors, which in turn can become the jumping off point for a research project. … And while the …
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What If a Sugar Pill Was Just as Effective As Psychotherapy?

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If antidepressant drug treatment effect sizes might be lower than we had thought, could the same be true for psychotherapy effect sizes too? Could, in fact, a sugar … That's because a pill isn't really equivalent to psychotherapy as a treatment …
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After the close: Alexion climbs on FDA news, Biogen basks in glory

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Alexion Pharmaceuticals /quotes/zigman/59581 /quotes/nls/alxn ALXN ended the day up nearly 5% as it was learned the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has designated one of the company's medications as an orphan drug for the possible treatment of a …
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