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Healthcare prevention plan worthy, but funding an issue
Reductions to services such as smoking cessation and sexual health in some areas are directly contributing to unacceptable variations in the quality and quantity of care available to the population.”.
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Alex Butler and Matt Baker launch Foundry3
a range of digital health start-ups focused on areas such as fertility, smoking cessation and GPs’diagnostic decisions.
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Pfizer’s Champix and GSK’s Zyban cleared of causing neuropsychiatric side effects
EAGLES trial of 8, 000 patients backs the smoking cessation drugs' safety. ... A much-anticipated clinical trial of two drugs used as smoking cessation therapies has concluded that they do not cause neuropsychiatric side effects such as suicidal ideation.
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Digital technology and patient support
Likewise, smoking cessation app Smartquit has been so successful that the National Cancer Institute has awarded a $3.1m grant to conduct a clinical trial to test its effectiveness.
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Study clears Pfizer’s Champix of serious risks
Study clears Pfizer’ s Champix of serious risks. Smoking-cessation drug 'does not increase risk' of depression or heart attacks. ... Champix, marketed as Chantix in the US, achieved global sales of $647m in 2014 making it one of the highest-selling
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FDA panel backs Sprout Pharma's 'female Viagra'
REMS are already in place for other 'lifestyle' drugs such as Vivus' Qsymia (phentermine/topiramate) for obesity and Pfizer's smoking cessation therapy Chantix (varenicline).
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If a nudge doesn’t last forever, how do we ensure sustained behaviour change?
groups. The same is true in smoking cessation. In a systematic review of the effectiveness of nudges based on incentives and competition (including investing their own money), only one of 19 ... In order to achieve sustained behaviour change in relation
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Pharma deals in June 2015
Acquisition - company. 200. Eolas Therapeutics/ AstraZeneca. Orexin-1 Receptor Antagonist (EORA) programme for smoking cessation and other indications (preclinical).
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Community pharmacy and OTC healthcare
Pharmacists' wellness and prevention role means intervening when people are still well and many provide services such as weight management, smoking cessation and cholesterol and blood pressure monitoring.
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Pharma deals during April 2014
Smoking cessation: Nicorette and Nicoderm (GSK), Nicotinell (Novartis). • Cold-and-flu: Theraflu and Triaminic (Novartis), Coldrex (GSK). •
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Denmark: rising pharma spend amid healthcare cost-containment
Another feature distinguishes the healthcare landscape in Denmark: health indicators show that Denmark lags behind other Nordic countries due to risk factors such as alcohol intake, smoking and obesity. ... promote smoking cessation; prohibition of the
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Latest appointments
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ABPI names NHS partnership manager
Tugnet managed a specialist healthcare development team at Nicoventures, which markets nicotine products for use in smoking cessation.
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Zeno Group appoints new UK healthcare director
During this time, she has gain experience covering therapy areas including allergy, cardiology, dental, diabetes, nutrition, skincare, smoking cessation, urology, vaccines, weight loss and wound care.
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Ogilvy Brussels names new associate director
During her time with the group, she supported Pfizer with the design and implementation of the integrated 'Siga red' campaign, for smoking cessation, and she managed the 'Lights out' campaign for
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Kane & Finkel announces new European director
In addition, as director of communications for the UK's Health Education Authority, he also developed public health campaigns for AIDS, smoking cessation, childhood immunisation and heart disease.
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Is obesity the new smoking?
Is obesity the new smoking? Is obesity the new smoking? The healthcare PR team at Say communications analyses the question posed by NHS Chief executive Simon Stevens. ... He goes on to describes obesity as ‘ the new smoking’ – the biggest cause of
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90TEN’s PR division boosted with hires from Ketchum and Liberation Unlimited
O’ Connor moves to 90TEN following three years at Ketchum where she worked on both global and UK accounts across immunology, smoking cessation, men’ s health and third sector clients.
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Health behaviour change: Getting patients to accept treatment
knowing their attitudes, fears, hopes and desires. Smoking cessation, for example, may be ‘ giving up’ to one but ‘ taking on’ to another, so the job of doctors, HCPs and pharma is
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Doctors Embracing Digital Technology – But Are Reluctant To Prescribe Apps And Wearables For Patients
Smoking Cessation (49%), and Compliance (45%). ·
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England may be losers, but is your health a winner?
England may be losers, but is your health a winner? England is out of the 2015 rugby world cup, but is your health a winner? We lost; we’ re out of the world cup. It’ s a predictable state of affairs for an English sports fan. But is there a
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