/PRNewswire/ Dr. Steven Quay, M.D., PhD., head of two COVID-19 therapeutic programs at Atossa Therapeutics, Inc. (NASDAQ: ATOS ), recently shared his latest.
Erin Whitney as head of global clinical operations and
Keith White as head of global market access and has also appointed brand strategy consultant
Shauna Horvath to head of global marketing. Whitney joins the team from bluebird bio, while Merck and Genentech veteran White was most recently VP, global market access and pricing at Corbus Pharmaceuticals. Horvath joined Amylyx as a consultant in 2019.
> Culver City, California’s ImmunityBio tapped
Fabio M. Benedetti, M.D., as chief strategy officer, effective Jan. 4. Should ImmunityBio’s NantKwest merger close, Benedetti is expected to assume the role of CSO at the combined company, ImmunityBio said. Benedetti joins from combination therapy specialist Apollomics, where he was chief medical officer.
Jan 11, 2021
Consensus guideline recommendations have little effect on treatment decisions
Most older adults with primary hyperparathyroidism (PHPT) did not receive definitive treatment with parathyroidectomy, instead receiving non-operative management, researchers reported.
According to a population-based cohort study, older age, frailty, and multimorbidity had inverse associations with parathyroidectomy and guideline recommendations had minimal impact on treatment decisions, “especially among frail patients with a high comorbidity burden,” wrote Carolyn D. Seib, MD, MAS, Department of Surgery, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, and colleagues in
PHPT is a common endocrine disorder that has tripled in prevalence over the past two decades, Seib and colleagues explained. It primarily affects older adults and is associated with an increased risk of osteoporotic fractures, nephrolithiasis, and chronic kidney disease, as well as neurocognitive impair
The Facts:
A letter to the editor published in the New England Journal of Medicine outlines how despite no lockdowns, school closings, or mask mandates no school children have died from Covid-19, and 1 in 130,000 have been admitted to the ICU.
Reflect On:
How dangerous is Covid for children? Is it less dangerous than the flu? Does the data justify lockdown measures and school closing? All of this is discussed within the article.
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5 Questions: Kevin Schulman on encouraging COVID-19 vaccination in a politically polarized country
COVID-19 vaccination rates must reach 80% to achieve herd immunity, but only about 60% of Americans are willing to be vaccinated, according to the Pew Research Center. Stanford physician and economist Kevin Schulman suggests marketing tactics to boost compliance. Jan 7 2021
The COVID-19 vaccine developed by Pfizer was granted emergency use authorization by the Food and Drug Administration.
More than 300,000 Americans have died of COVID-19 about 1 in every 1,000 people in this country. But will people agree to be vaccinated against the virus that causes the disease?
In November, only about 60% of Americans were willing far short of the 80% believed necessary to stop the disease from spreading, according to a survey from the Pew Research Center. On Dec. 31, the