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Tag Archives: Health Care
From Despair to Hope, a New World of Treatments
By David Welch, President and Senior Producer, M2 MultiMedia Communications Tonight, Wednesday March 28 at 9:00 EST, a documentary called From Despair to Hope, A New World of Treatments, will be broadcast on WUSA-TV, the CBS affiliate in Washington, D.C. It is sponsored by the Biotechnology Industry Organization. For me, producing this program was a yet another profound reminder of the contributions of biotechnology companies that are helping millions of patients throughout the world live hopeful Read More >
As Vaccine Exemptions Rise, Risk of Outbreaks Intensifies
Generally, we think of vaccines as protecting the vaccinated. We often forget that vaccines, when administered to enough people, protect those in the community who cannot be vaccinated due to certain health conditions, who are too young to be vaccinated, or who experience vaccine failure. This “herd immunity,” as it’s called, is analogous to the concept of ‘safety in numbers’ and is critical to outbreak prevention. However, as reported by Valerie Bauerlein and Betsy McKay Read More >
Programming Updates to the 2012 BIO International Convention
With Convention less than four months away, things are quickly falling in to place with several programming updates to note! A total of 115 breakout sessions have been confirmed and scheduled, including 18 international case studies. Session organizers are currently finalizing speakers. All session descriptions and confirmed speakers are available on myBIO. Even after all of the session submissions work, we asked for more session ideas! We recently completed a call for “Late-Breaking” sessions in Read More >
International Rare Disease Day: Join the Movement
By Nicole Boice, President and Founder, RARE Project Being diagnosed with any illness can be overwhelming. Imagine what it’s like, though, to be diagnosed with a disease that you’ve never heard of – maybe even one that your doctor has never seen before. Millions of people start this diagnostic odyssey on their own, with little or no support, no real direction, with feelings of isolation and fear. That’s exactly the situation in which millions of Read More >
Oncology Clinical Trials – Secrets of Success
At last year’s BIO CEO & Investor Conference, BIO and BioMedTracker presented data showing that drugs in development for oncology indications had the lowest overall clinical trial success rate of all therapeutic areas in development since 2004. We have updated these numbers to include clinical trials through December 2011. Although overall success rates did improve slightly, oncology remained in last place. The chart below illustrates why oncology’s overall success rate is so low relative to Read More >
