Tag Archives: patient groups

UN Pact Scuttles Anti-Vaccine Provision

By Jill Wechsler | Published: January 24, 2013
A new international agreement to reduce mercury contamination of air and water was recently adopted by 140 countries, without a proposal that threatened to limit access to vaccines in much of the world. The credit goes to public health authorities and medical experts who challenged a provision blocking production of vaccines with the preservative thimerosal, [...]
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Pharma Still Doesn't Get Patient Groups

By Clark Herman | Published: January 15, 2013
A survey of 600 patient groups worldwide conducted in late 2012 revealed that perceptions of the pharmaceutical industry soured in the past year, mainly due to issues of access, pricing, patient safety and transparency. The Corporate Reputation of Pharma in 2012—the Patient Perspective compared the reputations of 29 leading pharma companies around six different [...]
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Rare Disease Day: Spotlight on Solidarity

By Jennifer Ringler | Published: February 28, 2012
Patients, policymakers and pharmaceutical companies are uniting around rare diseases on the rarest of calendar days, presaging a leap forward in health outcomes and business opportunities. Aligning humanistic objectives with business incentives is often the sine qua non of effective community activism. This year’s Rare Disease Day – hosted in the US by the National [...]
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The Rising Clout of the Patient

By Guest Blogger | Published: January 9, 2012
by Sarah Krüg In 2011, the patient’s clout as a stakeholder was firmly established, as reflected in several industry conferences. What’s next for the patient in 2012?
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The Rise of the Patient: Medicine 2.0

By Guest Blogger | Published: October 12, 2011
by Sarah Krüg Amidst yellow sandstone arches and California Mission Revival architecture, The Medicine 2.0 +Stanford Summit (otherwise known as the Fourth World Congress on Social Media and Web 2.0 in Health Medicine) set out on a three day journey to challenge its diverse audience to break down silos and expand beyond traditional boundaries. From a [...]
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