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Overcoming Healthcare’s Mountain of Mistrust – Part 2: Payers

Perficient: Drug Development

To recap: Part 1 of the series focused on providers This part, Part 2, focuses on payers (insurance companies) Part 3 (by Marlana Voerster ) will focus on medical-device organizations First off: the bad news in trust for payers Gallup’s polling data among U.S. Quite frankly … not much. So there’s not much to celebrate in these results.

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Combo ‘Polypill’ May Cut Heart Attack, Stroke Risk Up to 40%

The Pharma Data

When taken on its own, the polypill reduced by about 20% the risk of heart attack, stroke, procedures to reopen clogged arteries and other heart disease, the researchers reported. The polypill combined with daily low-dose aspirin was even more effective, reducing heart health problems by up to 40%, the findings showed. About 4.1%