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Where does drug pricing cross the line into gouging?

2018-01-1514:54

Big money was evident throughout the 36th J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference — from the $200 an hour it costs to meet with someone in some hotel lobbies or lounges to the price of drugs. But as life-changing, one-shot-and-you're-done gene therapies emerge as options — with price tags approaching or exceeding $1 million — how much is too much?

The iPhone, blockchain and other health themes from Stanford Medicine Dean Lloyd Minor

2018-01-1228:11

Lloyd Minor, dean of the Stanford University School of Medicine, talks about the trends capturing health care and biotech. Lloyd Minor's list of three challenges that will define health care's future: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/jpm-2018-three-challenges-define-health-cares-future-lloyd-minor/

From full-body scanners to new-age drugs, Mir Imran's passion for 'big, unsolved mysteries'

2018-01-0939:06

Mir Imran developed an early defibrillator and those full-body scanners at airport security. After a career that's also included patents for medical devices, his Rani Therapeutics now is taking on new-age drugs designed to reduce side effects and increase efficacy.

How a venture fund weighs risk and spots scientific passion

2018-01-0823:58

Nick Naclerio oversaw many deals by life sciences tools maker Illumina Inc. Now he's heading up a $230 million fund, which takes its name from and includes Illumina as an investor.

How a startup is using machine learning to speed new Parkinson's, ALS drugs

2018-01-0522:43

Alice Zhang sees a way of tapping machine learning to accelerate the development of new drugs to treat Parkinson's disease and other brain diseases — and dismiss the ones that won't work.

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