May 17th, 20180616Personalised medicine, or pharmacogenomics, means targeting drugs and treatments based on a person’s genetics. This approach has significantly improved outcomes for...
April 23rd, 20180701There is a great quote by Milton Friedman which says “One of the great mistakes is to judge policies and programs by their intentions rather than their results”. The...
February 26th, 20180732Recently I had the great pleasure of giving a talk to a group of University students who are part of Mannkal Scholars. These are students who are wanting to expand their...
December 11th, 201711929Let me be very clear upfront. We all have to make a living. Only the government can forcibly extract money to keep itself going. The rest of us need to exchange goods or...
November 12th, 20170978Fairly quietly the effectiveness of this year’s flu vaccine in different ages groups has been released. Previously, Australis’s chief medical officer Professor...
October 9th, 201701468The use of antidepressants has exploded over the last 20 years. It is estimated that one in ten people in the USA is on them and as many as one in four women in their...
August 28th, 20170683Some numbers are so big that one can struggle to comprehend them. Fierce Pharma reported that in the decade from 2007, drugs losing their patents had total sales of...
June 12th, 20170780Every year a number of new drugs come onto the market. Some are greeted with fanfare while others just slide in. There is an assessment process to bring pharmaceuticals...
October 24th, 201611186There was an interesting review published in The Lancet about the placebo rate in use of antidepressants. The review found that that the placebo response rate had...
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