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Drug money

December 31, 2020 on Entrepreneurship, Financing healthcare, Healthcare, Pharma, Special Report by Thomas Schellen

Drug money

December 31, 2020 on Entrepreneurship, Financing healthcare, Healthcare, Pharma, Special Report by Thomas Schellen

What a difference in perception a year makes – especially this year of 2020, and especially in all matters concerning health, directly or indirectly. Let’s assume – very reasonably – that you were cleaning your hands a few times a day at about this time in late 2019. Were you to have been engaging in…

Alternative medicine spikes

December 31, 2020 on Banking & Finance, Beirut Port explosion, Entrepreneurship, Financing healthcare, Healthcare, Special Report by Thomas Schellen

Alternative medicine has been sitting in the shadow of traditional, Western medicine for some time in Lebanon: alternative medicine. Though it is not controversial, alternative medicine is still seen as a complement to traditional medicine. Long a fixture of the Lebanese traditional scene, with stories, and for some, memories of elder Lebanese concocting herbal remedies…

Issues and concerns at the intersection of health and finance

August 6, 2018 on Financing healthcare, Healthcare, Special Report by Thomas Schellen

In the opening line of American economist and public health expert Selma J. Mushkin’s paper titled “Towards a definition of health economics,” she pointed out two factors shaping the health issue: technological progress and increases in life expectancy. That was in 1958, a few years after the first wave of mass immunizations in the United…

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