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Leadership in the Age of Stacks

LifeSciVC

Nurses, techs, anesthesiologists, even transport staff can hold critical insight. These hospitals aren’t academic centers; they function with lean staffing, limited resources, and personnel often spread across units. The acuity of cases can change in an instant. And often, the person with the chart isn’t the one with the clearest picture.

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The Long Road to End Tuberculosis

Codon

These challenges have led to strategies such as directly observed therapy (DOT), in which nurses or physicians monitor patients to ensure they take their medicine every day. Nurses meet with patients daily, in person, or — in areas with electricity and access to technology — watch them take their pills via an online video call.

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Automated red blood cell exchange: bridging treatment gaps in sickle cell disease care

Drug Target Review

Meet the authors Carly Newton, RN, MBA is the Senior Manager, Apheresis Clinical Marketing at Terumo Blood and Cell Technologies Carly earned her Nursing degree at the University of South Australia and started her early career as a nurse in Australia, where she spent over a decade providing critical patient care, primarily in ICU settings.

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FDA Grants Priority Review for WINREVAIR Label Update Based on ZENITH Trial

The Pharma Data

Breastfeeding is not recommended during treatment and for four months after the final dose, due to the potential for serious adverse effects in nursing infants. The PAH Landscape Pulmonary arterial hypertension is a rare but serious condition, affecting an estimated 40,000 individuals in the U.S.

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Redefining Medical Affairs Strategy with Data

H1 Blog

“So now maybe were able to refocus our education to maybe not the actual main specialist, but maybe the periphery care team, like the nurse practitioner or a physicians assistant.” . “Sometimes we see that the physician that diagnoses isnt necessarily the physician that treats,” Jennifer noted.

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Advancing and Safeguarding Clinical Research for a Better Tomorrow

Advarra

Furthermore, Advarras IRB includes hundreds of expert members, many of whom bring expertise and experience in several therapeutic areas and disciplines, including oncology, bioethics, investigational pharmacy, internal medicine, psychology, physiology, radiology, public health, pediatrics, nursing, and social and behavioral science.

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Scientists reprogram ant behavior using brain molecules

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

By manipulating just two neuropeptides, scientists can turn defenders into nurses or gardeners into leaf harvesters. Leafcutter ants live in highly organized colonies where every ant has a job, and now researchers can flip those jobs like a switch.