Close Concerns
www.closeconcerns.comClose Concerns provides consulting services on diabetes to a wide range of established and start-up corporate clients, including pharmaceutical, medical device, and biotechnology companies. Close Concerns also publishes Diabetes Close Up, a monthly newsletter focused on clinical and commercial developments in the field, and produces special reports on products and trends influencing diabetes. They attend 30+ medical conferences and meetings per year globally that focus on diabetes and obesity. Close Concerns also has strong relationships with many of the leading researchers and clinicians in diabetes.
Leading Experts at Close Concerns(?)
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Kelly Close
President
Kelly Close is Founder and President of Close Concerns, a healthcare information firm focused exclusively on diabetes and obesity. She has over 15 years of experience at the intersection of finance and healthcare. Ms. Close specializes in financial analysis and marketing within the diabetes and obesity...
Consultant
Mark Yarchoan joined Close Concerns in June, 2007 after graduating from Amherst College with a degree in neuroscience. He is interested in health policy and medicine, and he pursued these interests throughout his undergraduate studies. In 2005, Mark received the Hotchkiss/Patrick Fellowship to fund...
GLG NewsSMAnalyses by Leading Experts at Close Concerns(?)
Top 5 Recent NewsThis was a great NYT story. The fact that Byetta was suggested as cardioprotective out of ACCORD was truly ignored by the media and nice to see the suggestion here. FDA is moving much more this direction and from a patient perspective, having a cardioprotective drug (LAR) that is easier to take than insulin (no hypo, no weight gain, 2% A1c drop) will be shown to be revolutionary.
Galvus was not approved in a once per day 100 mg version for Europe, which puts it as a disadvantage to Merck's Januvia. To boot, there are liver testing requirements that will also be a drag.
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