The Healthcare System: Encouraging the Antibiotics Business In April 2019, biopharmaceutical company Achaogen, a reliable player in the global market for its newly released Zemdri (plazomicin) drug treating tract and bloodstream infections, has filed for bankruptcy. It is not necessarily a surprise for a business to fail, but a concern arises when formally stable [...]
The Price for Medical Drugs Are On The Rise When pharmaceutical company Nostrum Laboratories bought over an old but commonly used antibiotic to treat urinary tract infections, no one took much notice. However, when it was soon discovered that that company raised the price of their antibiotic drug by more than 400 percent, everyone [...]
Generating A Reliable Talent Pool for the Life Sciences Industry Human Resource Managers are facing a problem of recruiting high-skilled medical professionals on a global level. Healthcare organisations have realised this problem and have devised ways of addressing it through innovative solutions supposed to improve the hiring process in the healthcare industry. With reference [...]
Regular Exercise has a Strong Impact on Your Health Whether it is a brisk walk around the park or the soothing session of meditative practices, regular exercise holds many health benefits. In fact, many researchers have proposed that such exercises can improve the physical and mental state of one’s body. The American Heart Association has [...]
Robotic-Assisted Total Knee Replacement Surgical System According to a 2018 Health Report by National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI), more than 2 million knee replacement surgeries were performed in Europe. With such a high demand for this type of surgical procedure, many medical companies have made advancements to raise the efficiency of the medical [...]
May 13th, 2019, Paris BFM Business interviews David Mercier , Founder and Executive Chairman at STRAMMER about the challenges of Talent Shortages (Talent Crunch) for the Life Sciences industry. STRAMMER - A Key Player in Recruitment in the Life Sciences Sector Read Article in French TALENT CRUNCH Professional recruitment firms in modern times are [...]
Technology Can Depict Human Emotions In this modern era, technology has advanced not just in complex algorithms and robots but to an anthropomorphic perception with the recent detection of micro expressions on our face. With, globally, over 5 billion people possessing some type of smart device it seems ever more than likely for technology to impede our personal space and diagnose our emotions before we can. This is termed as ‘empathetic [...]
The Science Behind Forgetting and How We can Overcome It The brain is a magnificent organ that traditionally holds billions of brain cells and thousands of neurons. Yet, incredibly when it comes to the simple task of processing day to day experiences into memory, it can easily become overwhelmed. Forgetting something is a natural [...]
Tackling the Issues of Skills Shortages in the Medical Field With the fragility of the labour market ever more evident in recent years, companies must be mindful of the considerable fluctuations in the availability of skills and jobs. Signs of such are already apparent in the global health industry with a shortage in physicians [...]
Artificial Intelligence and the impact on Physicians’ roles The healthcare Artificial Intelligence (AI) market is estimated to reach $34 billion worldwide by 2025 and this pace is creating both fear and excitement in many. While some argue that AI may render physicians’ jobs obsolete, many believe that it will only be an asset to [...]
