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Online Study Reveals Diabetes Specialists’ Concern Over NICE Draft Guidance...
At the beginning of this year, NICE released four pieces of draft guidance for diabetes, including documents on Type 1 and 2, as well as management in children and during pregnancy. With publication...
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Electronic Health Records in the UK: Patient Access Remains a Hot Topic
The gradual adoption of electronic health record systems has been in the works in more than a handful of countries around the globe, from the Kingdom of Jordan to Canada and India, all with various...
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US physicians speak out on drug pricing and payment models in health reform
When it was announced that Gilead’s Hepatitis C drug Sovaldi would be priced at approximately $84,000 per patient in the US, the news sparked inflammatory debates on the topic of feasibility and...
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Today in infectious disease: Hep C & HIV
[Image: El Mundo] I opened my laptop this morning to two very intriguing medical studies, both in the realm of infectious disease, a therapy area that is on the radar for Creation Healthcare, given our...
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Social media study reveals UK pharmacists’ most pressing issues
We have known for a while now that factors such as a rapidly ageing population and rapidly changing patient expectations are contributing to gaps in NHS funding. The intersection of advances in...
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Vaccines: Global HCP conversations illustrate public health priorities worldwide
With the recent measles outbreak causing widespread alarm in the US, approaches and attitudes to vaccination have seen a new peak in terms of public conversation over recent weeks. With some parents...
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Schizophrenia: Online perspectives from European mental health professionals
When you think of someone with schizophrenia, what do you imagine? Rather than relying on personal experiences or clinical knowledge, many of us may conjure up an image based on impressions gleaned...
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How does Lucentis/Avastin debate affect Roche’s reputation among doctors?
Background Studies that confirmed Avastin’s equivalence to Lucentis in treating age-related macular degeneration have been in the public eye since 2012. Recently however, there has been a resurgence in...
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Social Media Study Shows Why HCPs are Opposed to #NHS 7 Day Access Initiative
One of the first in a series of post-election health reform oriented announcements, Jeremy Hunt recently announced plans to make GP surgeries accessible 7 days a week, calling the initiative a ‘new...
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Diabetes Prevention & Management – a Perspective From UK HCPs
The summer of 2015 has been an unusually eventful one in the therapeutic area of diabetes, with Diabetes UK warning that a large proportion of the fiscal difficulties currently faced by the NHS can be...
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How India’s Healthcare Professionals Use Social Media
India’s Social Media Market According to recent data, India’s active social media users constitute 9% of the total population, and the number of social media users is increasing at a rapid rate every...
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Is Medium The Message For Healthcare Professionals?
The phrase ‘the medium is the message’ was coined by Marshall McLuhan in the mid-sixties to reflect the impact new platforms and distribution methods would have on how a message is received by its...
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What doctors say about Zika virus
This month marks one year since lab tests in Brazil confirmed that the mosquito-borne Zika virus had arrived in the Americas for the first time ever, sparking fears of a new global disease outbreak. In...
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Oncologists welcome new treatments for non-small cell lung cancer
Given the hype around breakthrough immunotherapeutic approaches in the oncology space, it was not surprising that our recent study into US healthcare professionals’ online conversations about non-small...
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Professional Q & A – How Healthcare Professionals are using Quora
This post is part of an ongoing study of emergent social websites, and their role in healthcare professional conversation. To view other posts in the series, please click here. The focus for this...
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Smile, You’re On Camera! How Doctors Use Live Video
This post is part of an ongoing study of emergent social websites, and their role in healthcare professional conversation. To view other posts in the series, please click here. In the previous articles...
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