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STAT+: The FDA plans to regulate far more AI tools as devices. The industry won’t go down without a fight

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Health tech companies are in a tizzy: After years of letting companies roll out software tools to guide patient care with little oversight, the Food and Drug Administration is taking a tougher stance. Continue to STAT+ to read the full story…

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UK fines drugmakers record £260m for price gouging NHS

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The price of a pack of 10mg tablets went from 70 pence in 2008 to £88 in 2016, according to the CMA, while a 20mg pack rose from £1.07 Before April 2008, the NHS was spending approximately £500,000 a year on hydrocortisone tablets, but that had swelled to £80 million by 2016. to £102.74.

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EMA issues guidance amidst European medicine shortage

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The EMA set up a task force in 2016 in light of issues concerning medicine availability and supply chain. The guidance adds to a previous one in 2022 aimed at patient and healthcare professional organisations as EMA tackles the instability of medicine supplies.

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CDC Emphasizes Opioid Guideline is Voluntary and Should Support, Not Supplant, Patient Care

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Houck — On November 4th, CDC issued its revised guideline on prescribing opioids for pain as an expansion and update of its 2016 CDC Opioid Prescribing Guideline. 2022 Guideline”). CDC received some 5,500 comments from patients, caregivers, clinicians and interested organizations to the proposed guideline update it issued in February.

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Digital operating room developer Proximie raises $80m

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Proximie was founded by NHS surgeon Dr Nadine Hachach-Haram in 2016, and has seen phenomenal growth during the pandemic as health systems looked at ways to use telemedicine to adapt to the crisis. Dr Nadine Hachach-Haram. “We began this journey enabling surgeons to virtually join any OR,” she added.

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Embracing digitalization in the pharmaceutical supply chain

Pharmaceutical Technology

According to GlobalData, the number of mentions of ‘Artificial Intelligence’ in the company filings of pharmaceutical organizations increased 105% between 2016 and 2021. Adoption rates for technologies like artificial intelligence (AI), cloud computing, and the Internet of Things are on the rise.

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New data reinforce Keytruda’s dominance in first-line lung cancer

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The new data – presented at this year’s ESMO meeting – reinforce the massive improvement in patient care that Keytruda has achieved in previously-untreated NSCLC, which had a five-year survival rate of just 5% before the drug was approved in 2016.