New research, released Tuesday, indicates that it could take upwards of 83 years to close the gender gap in the United States—and that is on all fronts: health, politics, education, and economics. The report was published in the 2016 Global Gender Gap Report, from World Economic Forum. The survey looked at the current gender gap…
Arthritis Drug Could Eventually Be Marketed to Treat Hair Loss
A large part of the medical industry is drug research. Sure, doctors have to know how to diagnose and effectively treat disease, but much of the money that exchanges hands in this business has to do with pharmaceutical sales. With that, though, those who research and develop treatments are constantly searching not only for the…
Alabama Medicaid Agency Finds the Means to Restore Payment Rates to Doctors
Alabama Governor Robert Bentley announced today that the Alabama Medicaid Agency will restore payments to doctors at the levels they were before the recent cuts went into effect, in August. Of course, these payments were reduced as a result of an $85 million shortfall in Medicaid’s budget for the new fiscal year, starting on October…
Amgen Multiple Myeloma Drug Fails to Surpass Competition in Trial
Shares of Amgen fell slightly—by 1.5 percent, to $170.90—this week on the report that its multiple myeloma drug—carfilzomib, under the brand name Kyprolis–did not outperform the competition in a head-to-head, late-stage study regarding efficacy on previously untreated patients. The United States Food and Drug Administration had already approved Kyprolis for multiple myeloma patients who had…