Recently the FDA asked drug companies to stop selling sunscreen pills which and warned people not to fall for such scams as there are no pills which can replace sunscreen.
A new study was conducted by Paolo Bocchini, associate professor of civil and environmental engineering, Javier Buceta, an associate professor of bioengineering, and postdoctoral researcher Graziano Fiorillo. They were affiliated with the Lehigh University in Bethlehem, PA. They hypothesized that, since fruit bats carry the Ebola virus, tracking down their migratory patterns might give information about the time and location of the next outbreak.
There was a major breakthrough for scientists from Australia who designed a new blood test named “painHS” to detect chronic pain through color biomarkers.
A research team from the University of Toronto has designed a cost-effective 3D-handheld skin printer which can heal deep wounds in a matter of minutes, by evenly printing out skin layers on top of them.
There are numerous studies involving intestinal microbes like probiotics and its link with healthy intestines. But these host-microbe in other organs like the lungs were poorly understood, which led to inflammation.
American Health Insurance Company Anthem, Inc. announced that the company has signed an agreement to takeover Aspire Health, the nation’s largest non-hospice, community-based palliative care provider.
ClearCare Homecare Technology Company has developed HomeConnect Application Programming Interface – API which will help home care providers to connect directly to hospitals for referrals, care management, and billing.
Pharma giant Merck & Co. revealed Keytruda had perfectly completed its final-stage research on the drug for previously untreated patients with skin cancer, who represent about 25% to 30% of the overall market.
Cincinnati-based startup Eccrine System has developed a health wearable devices called Sweatronics which tracks your health using sweat. Other bodily fluids like urine and blood contain plenty of the body information’s but are not as easy to collect. However, Sweatronics needs only sweat samples that is produces automatically while working or even sleeping.
Though the US stands first in the race in terms of sales and growth, it is highly believed that China would reach the peak in the pharma market by 2022. At present, since there has been a decrease in public health funding, there has been a slight fall in pharmerging countries like Brazil, Russia, India and China (BRIC). But it is believed that the condition of these pharmerging countries will improve in the next five years [1].
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