April 24th 2025
A new study shows that varenicline combined with brief remote counseling significantly improves vaping abstinence in in patients between 16 and 25 years of age.
Morgan Moments: A Closer Reading of the JP Morgan Investor Conference
February 5th 2016A closer reading of this year's JP Morgan investor conference identifies three areas where the insular, often maladroit tone of the industry-investor dialogue may be morphing to something more grounded in the larger societal context of healthcare.
Competitive Trial Management: Winning with Clinical Studies
October 9th 2015For years, many companies have competed to demonstrate that their products could achieve the holy grail in type 2 diabetes (T2D): cardiovascular (CV) risk reduction. According to the American Diabetes Association, pharma companies to date have spent over $2 billion and tested 138,000 patients in company-sponsored CV-risk reduction T2D trials, including the recent large-scale TECOS, SAVOR, EXAMINE, and ELIXA studies.
Alzheimer’s Update: What to Make of Latest Buzz
August 12th 2015Alzheimer’s disease (AD) researchers have seen more than their share of hopefulness and disillusionment over the years. Recent apparent gains targeting one of the disease’s two molecular bull’s-eyes may have reinvigorated drug development, or it may have set developers and investors up for letdown once more. To follow the news coming out of July’s Alzheimer’s Association International Conference in Washington, one had to be prepared for both glass half-full and half-empty interpretations.