Health policy

Panoramic Health Launches Scientific Advisory Board to Accelerate Innovation in Kidney Care

Retrieved on: 
Thursday, March 7, 2024

TEMPE, Ariz., March 7, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, Panoramic Health, kidney care's leading integrated provider group, is proud to announce the establishment of its Scientific Advisory Board, a distinguished group of clinical leaders and research experts committed to advancing kidney care innovation. With a focus on uncovering and delivering cutting-edge treatments for patients with kidney disease, the advisory board will play a crucial role in guiding Panoramic Science, the company's clinical research division.

Key Points: 
  • TEMPE, Ariz., March 7, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, Panoramic Health, kidney care's leading integrated provider group, is proud to announce the establishment of its Scientific Advisory Board, a distinguished group of clinical leaders and research experts committed to advancing kidney care innovation.
  • "At Panoramic Health, we are dedicated to redefining the standard of kidney care through innovation and collaboration," said Dr. Rajiv Poduval, Co-Founder and Executive Chairman of Panoramic Health.
  • "Our Scientific Advisory Board brings together exceptional expertise that will drive our efforts to enhance patient care and transform the evolving landscape of kidney disease treatment.
  • Panoramic Health leadership team members serving on the advisory board include:
    The establishment of the Scientific Advisory Board underscores Panoramic Health's commitment to driving innovation and improving the lives of patients with kidney disease.

Distinguished Global Health Policy, International Trade and Government Relations Veteran Joseph Damond Joins Crowell & Moring International

Retrieved on: 
Tuesday, March 5, 2024

WASHINGTON, March 5, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Joseph Damond joins Crowell & Moring International LLC (CMI) as chair of Global Life Sciences, bringing more than three decades of experience expanding market access around the globe for health care, life sciences, medical devices, and digital health companies.

Key Points: 
  • At CMI, Damond will work with leading clients in the health care industry to advance health policy initiatives and navigate the evolving global political and regulatory landscape.
  • As a recognized leader on issues of emerging technologies, Damond will provide expertise on standards, best practices, legislation, regulation, and public preparedness.
  • Damond was previously the global chair of Health Policy at Edelman Global Advisory.
  • In this post, he guided clients through the dynamic global health care industry, leveraging a government relations career focused on health care, trade, and innovation.

Breathe Change: Lung Health Foundation Launches First of Three Landmark Policy Forums on Thursday, March 7

Retrieved on: 
Monday, March 4, 2024

LHF is the nation's leading non-profit organization dedicated to supporting and empowering individuals living with lung conditions across Canada.

Key Points: 
  • LHF is the nation's leading non-profit organization dedicated to supporting and empowering individuals living with lung conditions across Canada.
  • The session showcases the best-of-the-best in COPD and lung disease research, diagnosis and treatment modalities, and policy initiatives.
  • Dawn Bowdish, Executive Director, Firestone Institute for Respiratory Health and Dr. Maya de Zoysa, Respirologist, West Nipissing General Hospital.
  • For those navigating the labyrinth of lung disease, LHF offers an expansive array of disease-specific support programs and resources.

Health Affairs Chooses MEI Global to Develop New Partnerships

Retrieved on: 
Tuesday, February 27, 2024

WASHINGTON, Feb. 27, 2024 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Today Health Affairs, a journal at the forefront of health policy thought and research, announced it has selected content licensing agency MEI Global, LLC (MEIG) to explore and facilitate new distribution deals. MEIG will help Health Affairs establish third-party licensing partnerships to broaden the reach of Health Affairs' high-level, nonpartisan analysis and research on health policy, as well as how to improve global and domestic health care.

Key Points: 
  • WASHINGTON, Feb. 27, 2024 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Today Health Affairs , a journal at the forefront of health policy thought and research, announced it has selected content licensing agency MEI Global, LLC (MEIG) to explore and facilitate new distribution deals.
  • MEIG will help Health Affairs establish third-party licensing partnerships to broaden the reach of Health Affairs' high-level, nonpartisan analysis and research on health policy, as well as how to improve global and domestic health care.
  • "With MEIG's guidance...we hope to find partners who can help us reach government and health industry leaders, health care advocates, researchers, and others concerned with health and health care issues around the globe."
  • -- Alan Weil, Health Affairs' Editor-In-Chief
    "We're proud that decision makers at the highest levels, including US Administration officials and members of Congress, ministry of health leaders worldwide, and the US Supreme Court, rely on Health Affairs to ensure they grasp the nuance and depth of the critically important health issues we are facing today," says Alan Weil, Health Affairs' Editor-In-Chief.

Introducing Vanscoy Rare Pharmacy: Founders of Rare Pharmacy Doing it Again, but Better

Retrieved on: 
Tuesday, February 20, 2024

By introducing innovative technology and patient care approaches to the delivery of specialty pharmacy services, Vanscoy Rare will change the pharmacy outlook for people living with rare conditions.

Key Points: 
  • By introducing innovative technology and patient care approaches to the delivery of specialty pharmacy services, Vanscoy Rare will change the pharmacy outlook for people living with rare conditions.
  • Specialized Expertise: The founders of Vanscoy Rare bring a deep understanding of rare diseases and the complexities surrounding them.
  • Customized Medication Solutions: Vanscoy Rare will offer a broad range of rare disease medications and therapies, tailored to individual patient needs.
  • The founders of Vanscoy Rare are excited about the opportunity to make a meaningful difference in the lives of rare disease patients.

LEVO Naturals Announces Sponsorship of University of Florida Third International Kratom Symposium

Retrieved on: 
Thursday, February 15, 2024

LEVO Naturals , a leading health and wellness company focused on innovative plant-based products, announced its sponsorship of the University of Florida College of Pharmacy’s Third International Kratom Symposium , taking place at the University’s Research and Academic Center in southwest Orlando on February 14 and 15.

Key Points: 
  • LEVO Naturals , a leading health and wellness company focused on innovative plant-based products, announced its sponsorship of the University of Florida College of Pharmacy’s Third International Kratom Symposium , taking place at the University’s Research and Academic Center in southwest Orlando on February 14 and 15.
  • The sponsorship reflects the company’s ongoing commitment to advance scientific research into the therapeutic potential of botanicals to address consumer needs.
  • The Third International Kratom Symposium brings together the world’s most preeminent scholars on Mitragyna speciosa (also known as Kratom), the native leaf grown in southwest Asia, and includes researchers from across academic disciplines including botany, chemistry, pharmacology, toxicology, clinical study and population health and health policy.
  • “LEVO Naturals has a longstanding commitment to support critical scientific and consumer research into the safe use of kratom products,” said John Clayton, Senior Vice President of Government Affairs for LEVO Naturals.

FOX News Books to Release Its Tenth Title With “Love, Mom” by Dr. Nicole Saphier

Retrieved on: 
Wednesday, February 14, 2024

FOX News Books, the publishing imprint for FOX News Media, will release its tenth book on April 16th, entitled “Love, Mom” by FOX News Channel’s medical contributor and mother of three, Dr. Nicole Saphier.

Key Points: 
  • FOX News Books, the publishing imprint for FOX News Media, will release its tenth book on April 16th, entitled “Love, Mom” by FOX News Channel’s medical contributor and mother of three, Dr. Nicole Saphier.
  • Some are a part of the FOX News family, others are from personal and professional interactions, and some from our amazing viewers.
  • Notably, nearly every FOX News Books title has placed on multiple national bestseller lists and shot to number one on Amazon.
  • FOX News Media operates the FOX News Channel (FNC), FOX Business Network (FBN), FOX News Digital, FOX News Audio, FOX News Books, the direct-to-consumer streaming services FOX Nation and FOX News International and the free ad-supported television service FOX Weather.

Henry Schein Cares Foundation Launches ‘Prevention is Power’ Public Health Awareness Campaign

Retrieved on: 
Wednesday, February 14, 2024

Henry Schein, Inc. (Nasdaq: HSIC) today announced the launch of Prevention is Power™, a multi-year public health awareness campaign from the Henry Schein Cares Foundation, Inc. (HSCF) to help improve health literacy and strengthen patient utilization of integrated, preventive care, with the goal of reducing incidences of chronic diseases as well as overall health care spending.

Key Points: 
  • Henry Schein, Inc. (Nasdaq: HSIC) today announced the launch of Prevention is Power™, a multi-year public health awareness campaign from the Henry Schein Cares Foundation, Inc. (HSCF) to help improve health literacy and strengthen patient utilization of integrated, preventive care, with the goal of reducing incidences of chronic diseases as well as overall health care spending.
  • Chan School of Public Health, the Commonwealth Fund, and others, despite spending more on health care than any other high-income country, overall health outcomes in the U.S. trail those in its peer countries.
  • It is well established that patient utilization of routine preventive health care leads to better population health outcomes as well as lower overall health care costs.
  • The Gold Foundation, which champions the human connection in health care, is proud to partner with the Henry Schein Cares Foundation to expand access and address health inequities.”
    Dr. Ayman El-Mohandes, Dean of CUNY SPH: “We are thrilled to partner with two impactful organizations, the Henry Schein Cares Foundation and NACHC, in this important work aimed at improving patient outcomes through education and engagement.

Nomi Health Announces Advisory Board to Guide Integrated Care Programs, Closing Most Care Gaps for Providers and Plans

Retrieved on: 
Tuesday, February 13, 2024

Nomi Health announced the formation of an advisory board composed of top policy, executive, medical and legal experts to guide and advise on the development of solutions for its customers, including providers, self-funded employers, governments and their partners.

Key Points: 
  • Nomi Health announced the formation of an advisory board composed of top policy, executive, medical and legal experts to guide and advise on the development of solutions for its customers, including providers, self-funded employers, governments and their partners.
  • Specifically, Nomi’s Integrated Programs give providers and health plans, through a whole-person approach, an end-to-end infrastructure that identifies, closes and monitors gaps in care for populations in need of specific care.
  • His expertise includes population health, value-based payment, social determinants of health and quality measurement.
  • “We are putting the advisory board to work immediately in our program focused on serious issues threatening communities nationwide today.

Labour scaling back its £28 billion green pledge will impact UK housing – and public health

Retrieved on: 
Tuesday, February 13, 2024

The UK Labour party has announced its intention to reduce its £28 billion green investment pledge to less than £15 billion if elected this year.

Key Points: 
  • The UK Labour party has announced its intention to reduce its £28 billion green investment pledge to less than £15 billion if elected this year.
  • A crucial question so far overlooked is what impact the cut would have on public health.

Existing government failure

  • Labour promises to deliver 1.5 million homes by “blitzing” the planning system, but it has so far ignored the potential consequences for public health.
  • Of course, the failure to factor in health is by no means unique to Labour policy.
  • A recent academic review of government housing and transport policy found that health is notably absent, despite well-established evidence that urban spaces are making us ill.
  • For many years, government housing policy has been shaped by the numeric gap between supply and demand, rather than the type or quality of the housing stock.

Promising developments

  • In addition to positive developments in government, such as the Build Back Beautiful Commission, the opposition also has some promising ambitions.
  • The fact that the party is making explicit this link between housing and health signal is a potentially very positive step forward.
  • However, in all the furore about Labour scrapping its £28 billion pledge, this crucial link to public health has been entirely forgotten.
  • This is perhaps indicative of the extent to which policymakers just don’t think about health when they think about housing.
  • This research comes from the TRUUD project, a research programme based at the University of Bristol, that aims to reduce non-communicable disease (such as cancers, diabetes, obesity, mental ill-health and respiratory illness) and health inequalities linked to the quality of urban planning and development for use in discussions with government and the developer industry.
  • The TRUUD research project (https://truud.ac.uk/) is funded by the the UK Prevention Research Partnership (https://ukprp.org/).
  • Geoff Bates receives funding as part of the TRUUD research project (https://truud.ac.uk/), which is funded by the the UK Prevention Research Partnership (https://ukprp.org/).