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Futurist Keynote - Articles and Videos - Future Health, Pharmaceutical Industry, Ageing

Future of Health - articles / videos and keynote conference presentations by Futurist and Physician Patrick Dixon, on health care, hospitals, clinics, community care, pharmaceutical drug development, new therapies, treatments, alternative medicine, performance medicine, well-being and health promotion / prevention, government funding. Clients: GSK, Roche, Novartis, Wyeth Pharmaceuticals, Gillette, Johnson and Johnson, 3M, Avon, Siemens Medical, Phillips Diagnostics, BUPA, Coloplast, Genentech, Henry Schein, NHS, Saga, Smith and Nephew, St Joseph's Hospital Foundation Ontario, Voluntary Hospitals Association. Please note related resoures in Biotechnology part of this website. Patrick Dixon has given keynotes on health and pharma related issues at events in North America, Central America, Latin America, Western Europe, Central Europe, Eastern Europe, Baltic States, Scandinavia, Africa, Central Asia, South East Asia and Asia Pacific.

 

Future of Health Care, Pharma, Hospitals, Biotech, Budgets - and your own life

Futurist Keynote - Articles and Videos - Future Health, Pharmaceutical Industry, Ageing

Future of health care – articles, videos and presentations on the future of health care by Futurist conference keynote speaker and physician, Dr Patrick Dixon, whose clients include many of the world’s largest pharmaceutical companies, as well as hospitals, clinical research teams and government health departments.

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Ageing: How to stop getting old: Society Impact - Future Health

Futurist Keynote - Articles and Videos - Future Health, Pharmaceutical Industry, Ageing

Scientific research into ageing. Can we stop getting old?

Pharmaceutical company anti-ageing products. Market research into anti-aging. Longevity trends and why life expectancy will be a major issue for banks, pension companies and insurance companies.

Demographic trends and length of life, and health care trends. Relationship between wealth and life expectancy. Why government actuarial life tables are incorrect. Impact on retirement age, ageism, discrimination against older workers.

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Future of Pharmaceutical Industry - Video on Future Health

Futurist Keynote - Articles and Videos - Future Health, Pharmaceutical Industry, Ageing

Crisis in the pharmaceutical industry. Lack of innovation in big pharma companies and empty product pipelines compared to biotech companies. Generic competition and product recalls. Drug development and novel substances. Large molecule and small molecule therapeutics. Risk profiles and clinical trials. Side effects, gene profile typing and pharmacogenomics. Health care, wellness, enhanced performance and lifestyle drugs. 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.

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Alternative Therapies and Treatments - Physicians and Pharmaceutical Industry gap. Health Speaker

Futurist Keynote - Articles and Videos - Future Health, Pharmaceutical Industry, Ageing

YouTube upload on: Alternative medicine, therapies, homeopathy, chiropractice, Antiageing therapies, complementary therapy, science and research.

How to stop your biological clock. unmet medical needs. Traditional healers and herbal remedies. 65% of health care spending on people over 65 years old. Aging process -- physiology of aging and remedies, antiaging therapies.

How to stay young. 7 key mechanisms of ageing in human cells.

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Teenage Smoking - urgent steps to take - Future Health Keynote

Futurist Keynote - Articles and Videos - Future Health, Pharmaceutical Industry, Ageing

Smoking has fallen in response to government action but we have far to go. It is still the case that 6% of young people in the UK are already addicted to smoking by the time they are 15.  Most of the 250,000 new smokers a year are under 18.  Every one of them will die 10 years early as a direct result unless they find a way to kick the habit which is notoriously hard.  Here are three actions which should be taken immediately.

 

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Stop Getting Older - Anti-ageing research - stay young. Future Health - Keynote Speaker

Futurist Keynote - Articles and Videos - Future Health, Pharmaceutical Industry, Ageing

Antiageing therapies, science and research -- how to stop your biological clock. 65% of health care spending on people over 65 years old.

Aging process -- physiology of aging and remedies, antiaging therapies.

How to stay young. 7 key mechanisms of ageing in human cells. How we share common aging processes with many other animals. Shared genetic code and cell structures. Non-aging fish and whales. Genetic basis of ageing and aging as a treatable condition. Genetic damage inside nucleus of cell, damage to mitochondrial DNA.

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Pain relief in cancer - analysis by Dr Patrick Dixon - Future Health

Futurist Keynote - Articles and Videos - Future Health, Pharmaceutical Industry, Ageing

Relieving Pain - A DIY Guide

As a doctor who has cared for the dying I have often been asked to kill people. One reason is that the fear of pain is usually greater than the fear of death itself. All of us have relatives or friends who have died of cancer, and many of us have traumatic memories of a painful deterioration. What is scandalous is that in almost every case their suffering was largely preventable and unnecessary, inflicted not by the disease but by shocking medical ignorance, arrogance, complacency and pride.

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Future Health Care Trends - Impact of Ageing - Public Health Keynote Speaker

Futurist Keynote - Articles and Videos - Future Health, Pharmaceutical Industry, Ageing

Future of health care, from sickness to performance, disease prevention, health promotion and wellbeing, wellness. Impact of ageing, older people, senior citizens - growing health care demands. Health trends in treatment of genetic disease, inherited medical conditions, HIV, Alzheimers, Parkinsons, Diabetes, Rheumatoid Arthritis etc. How patients, clients, over the counter therapy customers, and consumers of health care products will manage their own treatment. Patrick Dixon is a health care keynote speaker at many public health conferences and forums on future of the pharmaceutical industry. Patient choice and public health policy changes with government budget health cuts, health care rationing, post code lotteries.

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Doctors playing God - the truth about future health rationing

Futurist Keynote - Articles and Videos - Future Health, Pharmaceutical Industry, Ageing

The near hysterical reaction to calls for health rationing is not because people are interested in the health of the nation but because they are afraid of their own future, afraid of diseases such as cancer and afraid of old age. Who will be there to care for me when I am dying and alone?

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