What will the ultimate cost of COVID-19 be? In this insightful piece, Dr Tessa Richards discusses the wide impact on health of the COVID-19 pandemic, from the repercussions that we start to perceive to the potential and hidden figures.
Nathalie Moll, Director General of EFPIA on “How can we future-proof medicines regulation in the post-COVID world?”.
To illuminate some of the recent developments pursued by leading scientists during the pandemic, the IUIS collaborated with Frontiers and launched a series of weekly scientific webinars to accelerate the development of novel diagnostics, therapeutics and vaccines. Speakers shared their insights and latest research results on Covid-19-related topics, welcoming an audience that featured more than […]
This report from FasterCures identifies practices that have emerged from the COVID-19 crisis that should be preserved and enhanced. Its focus centers on five areas: (1) research collaboration; (2) acceleration of product development; (3) clinical trial design and execution; (4) collection and use of real-world data and evidence; and (5) racial and ethnic disparities in health care […]
Now more than ever, women who are pregnant or are thinking of becoming pregnant will need to make decisions about getting a vaccine In this Impact Factor episode, Dr F. Perry Wilson of the Yale School of Medicine, discusses new hard data on the risks of COVID-19 in pregnancy.
Managing chronic conditions amid a pandemic has proven to not be easy for several reasons. This has required adjustment to daily routines, developing new care models and dealing with new obstacles. What can be learnt from the emergency to innovate the health system and the management of chronic patients? In this European Health Management Association […]
In this article, Owen Miller of Alzheimer Europe explains how the coronavirus crisis has affected patient care, research and efforts to involve people with Alzheimer’s in meetings.
Ever since the pandemic started, people have been asking when things will go back to normal. But it’s hard to imagine what “normal” even looks like after such a history-changing event. In this podcast, Rashida Jones, Bill Gates and Anthony Fauci dig into how the changes we’ve seen over the last year might be here […]
COVID-19 has upended health care systems worldwide, which had to respond in record-time to an unprecedented pandemic. It has pushed health care systems to increase inpatient hospital capacity significantly. This was in stark contrast with a strong push for more outpatient care in the past years by the health ecosystem. But in parallel, the pandemic […]
In this article, patient advocate Judith Safford argues that without the support of the public and patients, health systems are powerless to stop the pandemic.
