Global Business, Healthcare/Marijuana, Markets, Politics Pharma Companies Generate $90B From Best Selling Drugs of 2018 The top 10 best selling drugs in 2018 generated $90 billion in revenues for large pharma companies
Healthcare/Marijuana Legal Cannabis Will Be Greatest Job Creator in America Leafly released a report that projects cannabis jobs to more than double by 2020, outpacing workforce gains in other industries
Healthcare/Marijuana, Markets CRISPR Is Being Tested Where Vaccines Fail Gene-editing technology CRISPR is being tested in disease settings where vaccines are currently not effective. Although years away from market, early data shows promise
Healthcare/Marijuana, Markets, Politics US Healthcare to Grow by 70% Over Next Decade Healthcare spending will rise by 5.5% annually over next decade as more people get on Medicare. In order to cover these added costs, governments will be pressured to raise taxes and private insurers to raise premiums
Healthcare/Marijuana, Politics California Generates $300M in Tax Revenue From Cannabis California, the world’s biggest cannabis market, legalized the drug in 2016. Tax from cannabis is growing each quarter and expected to hit $1B within 3 years
Global Business, Healthcare/Marijuana, Markets The Biggest Cancer Company Of 2018 May Lose Its Throne in 2019 Roche was the best selling oncology company of 2018, with double the sales of second place Celgene.
Global Business, Healthcare/Marijuana E-cigarettes Have Created New Generation of Tobacco Users For 5th year in a row, e-cigs were most popular product amongst high school students, erasing all the progress made to lower smoking rates.
Healthcare/Marijuana, Markets Aurora Cannabis Captures 20% Market Share In Canada Aurora Cannabis saw revenues rise 4x and claimed a strong market share that detailed the first quarter of legal recreational-pot sales in Canada, but also showed off large losses and a shrinking margin.
Global Business, Healthcare/Marijuana, Markets, Politics Canopy Making Bigger Push Into US Cannabis The Canadian marijuana company is investing up to $500M into US CBD market after receiving a license from NY.
Healthcare/Marijuana Microsoft Cloud Services Finally Modernizing Healthcare Records In an attempt to overtake Amazon’s AWS in the cloud market, Microsoft is updating the archaic ways healthcare records are shared
