Healthcare trends
A space to think about healthcare and pharma.
Thesis: AI will reshape healthcare through lower cost personalization and reinvention of the pharma pipeline from molecule discovery to the clinical trial process.
Clinical trial costs seem to be inflating excessively, without a clear increase in the value of the information gained. Here, we highlight factors that could be driving this trend and discuss potential solutions.
Fitness has shifted from a casual interest to a priority for many consumers: around 50 percent of US gym-goers said that fitness is a core part of their identity (Exhibit 6). This trend is even stronger among younger consumers—56 percent of US Gen Z consumers surveyed considered fitness a “very high priority” (compared with 40 percent of overall US consumers).
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Exercise is an effective treatment for depression, with walking or jogging, yoga, and strength training more effective than other exercises, particularly when intense. Yoga and strength training were well tolerated compared with other treatments. Exercise appeared equally effective for people with and without comorbidities and with different baseline levels of depression.
As recently as the 1980s, hundreds of thousands of people worldwide were paralyzed by polio every year. Most of them were children.
