Medtech companies paid $3.62 billion for access to physicians — 10% more than drug companies did — from 2014 to 2017, according to new research. Device company payments to surgical specialists were significantly more tied to the surgeons’ Medicare billing than payments from drug companies to specialists, according to the study, which appears in the April 2021 […]
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Sorrento licenses COVID-19 saliva test
Sorrento Therapeutics (NSDQ:SRNE) announced that it entered into a licensing agreement with Columbia University for its COVID-19 saliva diagnostic test. The one-step diagnostic test is designed to detect SARS-CoV-2 (the virus causing coronavirus) in as little as 30 minutes from a sample of saliva. Developed by a team at Columbia, the test will be marketed […]
Study: Bypass better than stents for non-compliant patients
(Reuters) — For heart disease patients who adhere to optimal medical therapy, outcomes of coronary bypass graft surgery and percutaneous coronary intervention may not differ, a new study finds. However, among non-adherent patients, CABG affords better major adverse cardiac event-free survival. When they don’t take their meds as directed, CABG patients are 68% more likely […]
