Australia Cannot Settle Its Device Price Fight While the Service Sits Inside the Price
Both sides are fighting over a number nobody can produce. The evaluation went underneath them and named the reason: the service is inside the price.
Athithi Verma
Oman Is Offering Drug Manufacturers the One Thing Government Procurement Normally Destroys
Committing 30% of a health ministry’s requirement at agreed prices means deciding not to buy the cheapest product. Somebody is paying for that.
Freenome’s Lung Test Is Indicated for People Who Never Show Up
Freenome defined its population by the failure of the existing pathway, not by anything measurable in the patient. That is the decision worth reading.
No Product Is Approved for Hernia Prevention. BD Is Spending Five Years to Change That.
BD is not testing a product against a competitor. It is testing whether an indication can be brought into existence, with no label, code or precedent.
Logical Reasoning Survived Severe Aphasia, and Recruited No Language Regions in Healthy Brains
Two patients with severe aphasia solved formal logic problems as well as controls. The language network stayed quiet through both reasoning types.
Korea Cleared Two Diagnostics on One Day, and Both Remove a Specialist
Nobody gained insurance access. Designation is the gate before the negotiation. The real story is that both lead technologies remove a specialist.
FastWave’s Pivotal Trial Cannot Measure the Thing FastWave Is Selling
Everything FastWave sells is comparative. The word its chief executive used is clearance, and clearance means substantially equivalent.
The MHRA Authorised Two Obesity Drugs in Two Days. Neither Is on the NHS.
Two MHRA authorisations in two days. One drug is too common to fund, the other too rare to prioritise. Neither is on the NHS.
CMS Opened a Same-Day Coverage Lane for Devices and Closed the Payment Route Underneath It
CMS Opened a Same-Day Coverage Lane for Devices and Closed the Payment Route Underneath It
Washington Narrowed the Childhood Schedule, and the Insurer Backstop Quietly Stopped Being One
Washington Narrowed the Childhood Schedule, and the Insurer Backstop Quietly Stopped Being One