

http://www.globalchange.com Lack of innovation and empty product pipeline. Generic competition and product recalls. Patent expiry and intellectual property protection. Legal challenges and research scandals. Biogenerics and large molecule therapeutics. Cellular mechanisms of disease. Unmet needs. Government purchasing policies and insurance cover. Online pharmacy price pressures. Search for new blockbusters. Chronic disease and orphan therapies. Rheumatoid and asthma. Antibiotics and multiple resistance problems. Search for powerful antiviral therapy. Future health funding and ageing populations. Contrast with emerging nations. Treatment access and justice issues. Pharmacogenomics and gene prophecy. Ethical issues. HIV and AIDS. Patrick Dixon, conference keynote speaker and futurist.
| Moody's reports question health of health-care industry (Chicago Tribune) Service predicts fewer elective procedures, credit troubles for hospitals The health-care industry, often deemed recession-proof, may not be so immune to the economic downturn, according to a parade of recent reports from Moody's Investors Service . |
| Insurance industry backs health care overhaul if coverage mandated (San Diego Union-Tribune) WASHINGTON ? The health insurance industry said yesterday it would support a national health care overhaul that requires them to accept all customers, regardless of pre-existing medical conditions. In return, it wants lawmakers to mandate that everyone buy coverage. |
| Health care plan gains support (Chicago Sun-Times) The health insurance industry said Wednesday it will support a national health care overhaul that requires them to accept all customers, regardless of pre-existing medical conditions. But in return it wants lawmakers to mandate that everyone buy coverage. Lawmakers have signaled their intent to craft health care legislation early next year, and industry support would make passage easier. |
| Health care insurers for revamp of the system (Pioneer Press) WASHINGTON ? The health insurance industry said Wednesday it supported an overhaul of the health care system that would require insurers to accept all customers, regardless of illness or disability. But in return, insurers said, Congress should require that all Americans have coverage. |
| Insurers propose health care terms (Baltimore Sun) Industry would accept all customers if everyone buys coverage The health insurance industry said yesterday that it will support a national health care overhaul that requires them to accept all customers, regardless of pre-existing medical conditions - but in return it wants lawmakers to mandate that everyone buy coverage. |
