Rob Louie, RPh, MBA

Defining the Digital Health Landscape Digital health has been a trending topic for several years now. Using technology to improve health and wellness is a broad and growing sector. Smartwatches or trackers that can track steps, heart rates, and other health markers are seen everywhere, but digital health goes beyond wearable devices that promote general […]

History HIV treatment has come a long way since 1987 when the first breakthrough zidovudine, a failed cancer drug from the 1960’s, was found to stop HIV from multiplying and help people with HIV live longer. The problem with a single drug treatment for HIV is that viruses mutate over time and these mutations eventually

COVID-19 has infected over 10 million people in the United States and has claimed the lives of over 237,000 people and the country’s 7-day average of new daily cases has been over 100,000. The coronavirus pandemic is continuing to wreak havoc on the health and economy in the US and in the world. Everyone is

The biologic drug market is huge in the US and it continues to grow at a rapid pace. However, great innovation come with greater costs. In the US, only 2% of prescriptions are written for biologic drugs, but the 2% accounted for 37% of total drug spend, which in 2018 was $125 billion in sales.

Albuterol is a short acting beta agonist (SABA) used to treat or prevent bronchospasm in patients with reversible obstructive airway disease commonly caused by chronic bronchitis, as well as to prevent exercise-induced bronchospasm (asthma). Bronchospasms are the tightening and narrowing of the airways in the lungs causing difficulty in breathing. Exercise and other physical activity

Migraine is a neurological disorder with severe throbbing/pulsating headache generally associated with visual disturbances, nausea, vomiting, dizziness, and sensitivity to light/sound. Migraine is often a disabling condition which affects more than 38 million people in the US. Migraine is three times more common in women than in men. Children are not immune as one out

Thanks to advances in modern medicine, diseases caused by genetic disorders such as spinal muscular atrophy and retinal defects can be greatly improved or potentially cured using a form of treatment called gene therapy. Gene therapy uses carrier cells like a virus to deliver the new gene into the mutated or missing gene to treat

As the COVID-19 Pandemic continues to sweep across the US, it seems there are new updates on the healthcare front every day. It’s also important to observe how current treatments, vaccines, testing, and the state of the medication supply chain are following cause and effect patterns familiar to previous pandemic outbreaks. Where are we in