Friday, February 4th, 2011
AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals LP (NYSE: AZN) and HealthCore, Inc., the health outcomes research subsidiary of WellPoint, Inc. (NYSE: WLP), announced a collaborative agreement to conduct real-world studies designed to determine how to most effectively and economically treat disease. The research, which will include prospective and retrospective observational studies on disease ...
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Tuesday, July 6th, 2010
The American Academy of Ophthalmology has nominated Daniel F. Martin, MD, for consideration as a member of the governing board of the newly created Patient Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI). The institute was created in the expansive health care reform law passed earlier this year. It is to set the ...
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Thursday, March 25th, 2010
How does the health-care overhaul propose to control spending? By evaluating treatments through "comparative effectiveness research"
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Tuesday, February 9th, 2010
Cost-effectiveness research will become more important as EU responsibility for the pharmaceutical sector moves to the Health and Consumer policy directorate, Lynne Taylor and Peter Mansell report. Consumer advocates and industry critics have welcomed the new European Commission's decision to switch responsibility for the pharmaceutical sector from DG Enterprise and ...
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Sunday, January 24th, 2010
Researchers at Geisinger Medical Center recently received funding totaling more than $44,000 from a Geisinger Health System (GHS) - NYU Langone Medical Center (NYULMC) collaborative project focusing on personalized healthcare. The grant, titled "Expanding Comparative Effectiveness Research in Orthopedics by Capturing Uniform Measures of Patient-Reported Functional Outcomes at Two ...
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