Swiss healthcare costs of 12.2% of GDP are the world’s second highest after the United States where healthcare consumes 17.1% of GDP, according to 2016 figures presented by the Federal Statistical Office on 18 October 2018. Switzerland spent CHF 80.5 billion on healthcare in 2016, the latest figures reveal. This comes out at around CHF…
Month: October 2018
Pharma also needs more WOMEN…
Why the World Needs More Female Leaders in Health Care Johnson & Johnson is empowering women to lead in the health industry and deliver quality care. Women make up nearly 70% of the world’s 43 million health care workers. But when it comes to taking the lead on delivering health care, women are often left behind….
Oncology and success path
Launches in oncology: The elements of success By Björn Albrecht, Jan Ascher, Philippe Menu, Martin Peters, and Lena Stiehl As the prevalence and severity of cancer has increased, the drug landscape has shifted. Oncology drug launches are increasingly critical and require a dedicated approach. Here’s what it entails. Our experience shows that companies who launch oncology drugs successfully…
Exponential Medicine
What ‘exponential medicine’ means for global health By Catherine Cheney Daniel Kraft, faculty chair for medicine at Singularity University. Photo by: SU Global Summit SAN FRANCISCO — Daniel Kraft, the faculty chair for medicine at Singularity University, is focused on the impact that technologies such as artificial intelligence are having, and will have, on biomedicine and health care. Kraft…
Banks are paying huge salaries to Biotech analysts. Why don’t they transfer pharma professionals?
Biotech boom powers analysts to $4M-a-year salaries: WSJ by Nick Paul Taylor The $3 million-plus pay packets set biotech apart from other industries, where around $1 million a year is typical. (diegograndi) The biotech boom is having a big effect on the pay packets of equity analysts, according to The Wall Street Journal. Driven by a desire to…
Our 2nd Brain and its dynamics..
7 Startups Treating Disease Using the Microbiome We’re big fans of yogurt here at Nanalyze. It’s one of those Americanized breakfast foods that can also double as dessert while masquerading as a health food. Yogurt gets its reputation as a pseudo health snack partly because it contains various strains of probiotic bacteria that are thought…
Believe in Pharma…
Switzerland’s Richest Person Adds to Pharma Bet With Purchase of Corium Swiss billionaire Ernesto Bertarelli – Photographer: Jose Jordan/AFP via Getty Images The Bertarelli family made their vast fortune from drugs. They’re still betting the pharmaceutical industry can deliver. Gurnet Point Capital, a health-care fund backed by Ernesto Bertarelli, Switzerland’s richest person, has agreed to buy Corium International Inc. in…
European biotech funding on track for record year
by Nick Paul Taylor | Oct 5, 2018 The financings highlight the emergence of a clutch of growing European biotechs with aspirations to take drugs deep into the clinic. (CC0 Public Domain) The European biotech sector is on track to break its annual funding record, according to BioWorld. After a big third quarter, the total for the first nine months…