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Sasha Mortimer

How the Pharmaceutical Industry is Looking to Treat Low Sex Drive
It should be noted that if someone just happens to have a low sex drive and is completely fine with that then it’s not a medical problem in any form. However, if having a low sex drive is negatively impacting a person’s life and well-being, then they may have hypoactive sexual desire disorder.
July 9, 2019
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Sasha Mortimer
Top Biotech Companies By Revenue In The Biotech Be
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U.S. Companies Continue to Pay More in Healthcare as the Cost of Drugs Keeps Rising
The rising cost of healthcare has been a hot topic of discussion as of late throughout the United States, with many presidential candidates using it as a selling point of their campaign.
July 3, 2019
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Sasha Mortimer
Why Scientists Are Researching How to Manipulate Memory
The idea of manipulating one’s memory has always been a popular concept among both researchers as well as the average person.
June 5, 2019
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Sasha Mortimer
Drug Development
Metabo-Oncology: The Latest Frontier in Cancer Research
Metabo-oncology is the study of the effects that metabolic dysfunction and obesity have on cancer and cancer treatments. This includes both how they affect those who already have cancer as well as how they may increase the odds of one getting cancer later on in life.
April 10, 2019
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Sasha Mortimer
Drug Development
How Doctors Are Curing Over 70 Different Diseases With a Treatment From the 1950s
Bone marrow transplants are both incredibly risky as well as expensive procedures. Nonetheless, they are still effective and have been used by doctors since the 1950s, with many successful procedures completed over the years.
April 1, 2019
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Sasha Mortimer
Business
Inactive Ingredients Could Be the Reason for a Medicine’s Side Effects
Putting ingredients into a medication that aren’t supposed to have any sort of medically significant effect might seem kind of pointless. However, each of them do serve important purposes.
March 21, 2019
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Sasha Mortimer
Business
Despite a Lack of Research, CBD Remains Popular
These days, it’s not hard to find stores selling cannabidiol (CBD) products. However, even with its popularity, there really isn’t much research on it and its effects. This means that many of its supposed health benefits may not be true at all.
March 11, 2019
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Sasha Mortimer
Business
Curing Sickle Cell Anemia: The Progress so Far
Sickle cell disease is a genetic blood disorder that causes red blood cells to form abnormally, resulting in them taking on a shape like that of a sickle. This disease is incredibly debilitating and can be fatal. For thousands of years, many have suffered from sickle cell disease with little hope of it being cured.
February 6, 2019
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Sasha Mortimer
Business
The Benefits and Challenges of Bringing Tech to the Pharma Industry
One area that pharma companies are now focusing on is bringing more tech into the industry. This is proving to be a smart idea as new technologies are already helping to revolutionize research.
January 22, 2019
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Sasha Mortimer
Business
Developing Drugs Is an Expensive Process. How Do Biopharma Companies Hope to Change That?
Perhaps unsurprisingly, the average cost of developing new drugs is very high. For pharmaceutical companies that are developing multiple drugs, the R&D costs can average around $5 billion.
January 18, 2019
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Sasha Mortimer
Pharm Country
Investing Into R&D Pays off for Some of Biotech’s Biggest Companies
PwC recently came out with the latest version of their annual R&D spending report, and while there is a lot of interesting information to digest in this report, there are a few companies in particular that stand out within the field of biotechnology.
December 28, 2018
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Sasha Mortimer
Business
Pharma Companies Look to the Future of Advertising With Social Media Influencers
People who have managed to garner a large following on sites like Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and the like have quite a bit of pull within said following. These “microcelebrities” are now a subject of interest for pharmaceutical companies who are looking for new ways to advertise their products.
December 4, 2018
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Sasha Mortimer
Business
The Mess That Is Peer Review, and What Should Be Done About It
Peer review has a long history behind it, and it has since become synonymous with the scientific method. Ever since its original inception in the 18th century, the peer review process has undergone many changes in its evolution to what it is now.
November 26, 2018
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Sasha Mortimer
Business
Breakthroughs in IVF: How a Same-Sex Couple Carried the Same Baby
Thanks to new advancements in IVF, it recently became possible for a same-sex couple to both carry their baby, and this new breakthrough holds a lot of promise for the future of assisted reproductive technology.
November 14, 2018
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Sasha Mortimer
Business
Project Baseline: Predicting Cancer Before It Happens
One of the biggest areas of research when it comes to cancer is prediction, because the sooner cancer is detected, the higher the chance that the patient will survive. In most cases, cancer is diagnosed after it has already entered into the advanced stages, which severely decreases the effectiveness of current cancer treatments.
November 7, 2018
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Sasha Mortimer
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