About Covid-19
Past SARS-CoV-2 infection protection against re-infection: a systematic review and meta-analysis “Protection from past infection against re-infection from pre-omicron variants was very high and remained high even after 40 weeks. Protection was substantially lower for the omicron BA.1 variant and declined more rapidly over time than protection against previous variants. Protection from severe disease was high for all variants.”
About health insurance/insurers
Best Health Insurance Companies of 2023 FYI from “insure.com” Kaiser comes out first with United a close second.
About pharma
2022's 10 top clinical trial flops FYI
Novartis loses $940M arbitration case against Mitsubishi Chemical over Gilenya royalties “Novartis has made more than $30 billion from sales of its multiple sclerosis therapy Gilenya. But lately the drug’s decline has brought headaches for the Swiss pharma giant.
A series of patent defeats has led Novartis to a last ditch appeal with the U.S. Supreme Court. Now, the company has been told to fork over $940 million in royalties to Mitsubishi Chemical Group.”
About healthcare IT
59.7M patient records were breached in 2022 “In 2022, the number of patient records breached increased by 18 percent compared to 2021 to 59.7 million, according to a new report from healthcare analytics company Protenus Breach Barometer.”
And in a related article:
Reported HIPAA complaints and breaches shot up from 2017 to 2021: HHS “According to the report, the number of large HIPAA breaches rose by 58 percent between 2017 and 2021, and the number of complaints rose by 39 percent. The agency defines large breaches as ones that affect at least 500 individuals.”
Survey Finds 57% of U.S. Physicians Have Changed Their Perception of a Medication as a Result of Info on Social Media “A new joint survey from Sermo and LiveWorld found that 57% of U.S.-based physicians frequently or occasionally change their perception of a medication or treatment based on content they’ve seen on social media. Only 16% of surveyed physicians reported that their perceptions have never been influenced by social media.”