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- Should drug companies know what the doctor prescribed
- Should drug companies know what the doctor prescribedI'll go with the docs on this oneFirst look at the potential use of the data. You really need to know the patient's age, sex and race as well as their medical condition. Then throw in the other medications that the...
- Tags: patient, drug company
- Discussion threads 2009-05-11
- Preemption case went before Supremes today
- My feeling is that this will lead to illness and death that become matters for the criminal courts. Wyeth executives who skated in civil court, thanks to their friends in Washington, may find themselves behind bars one day. by Dana Blankenhorn
- Tags: Wyeth, Dana Blankenhorn, FDA, Drug Company, Side Effect, Bush Plan, Legal Times, Federal Government, Professional Development, Regulations, Government, Career
- Blog posts 2008-11-03
- The tech trend killing the drug industry
- Biologicals are forcing policymakers around the world to ask the hard questions. Should cost cause some citizens to die? Where is the line drawn? Is the private market the best way to deliver these medicines? by Dana Blankenhorn
- Tags: Biologicals, Dana Blankenhorn, Drug Company, Management, Policymaker, Security, Shotgun, Strategy
- Blog posts 2008-10-22
- Drug profit incompatible with scientific method?
- Drug profit incompatible with scientific method?Patentability and ProfitThe problem with new drugs like Vytorin is that we must rely on short-term studies & short-term observation in order to gamble on the drugs' safety. There is, presently, only one cholesterol medication that has not only proven to be most effective in...
- Tags: tobacco, new drug, drug company
- Discussion threads 2008-09-03
- Genentech deal shows drug companies are oil drillers
- The problem is we're finding, as the science of DNA advances, that there are few easy answers. A drug which works for one person may not work for others. Side-effects are worsening for those whose genetic code rejects a new substance. by Dana Blankenhorn
- Tags: Drug Company, Genentech Inc., Side-effects, Biotechnology, Wiki, Sales Strategy, Online Communications, Sales, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-07-21
- Do drug companies need government subsidies?
- Do drug companies need government subsidies?You don't get to receive welfare AND rape your customersPick one or the other. Not both.RE: Do drug companies need government subsidies?Of course they do. How else can they prove that they can't compete on a world stage and still satisfy shareholders? Maybe...
- Tags: Taxes, Free trade, government subsidy, drug company
- Discussion threads 2008-03-25
- Digital signatures at heart of health care reform debate
- Privacy and security are top-of-mind when anyone talks about technology enabling health care reform. The solution, according to R. ‘Doc’ Vaidhyanathan, vice president of product management for Arcot Systems in Sunnyvale, is to maintain encryption keys in a central store, than have doctors, pharmacists, and drug companies...
- Tags: Digital Signature, Drug Company, Health Care, Arcot Systems, Key, Digital Signatures, Healthcare, Authentication/Encryption, Digital Security, Security, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2007-10-25
- EU questions iTunes pricing
- EU questions iTunes pricingSo what?It may be a questionable business practice to charge customers in the UK more than other EU customers (p*ssing off your customers is usually a bad idea), but why would it be illegal?U.S. drug companies charge more in the U.S.A. than they do in Canada and...
- Tags: Pricing, pricing strategy, drug company, iTunes pricing, Apple Inc., member state, Apple iTunes
- Discussion threads 2005-02-25
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- Google's Schmidt: Mimicking Office completely not 'a good use of our time'
- Commonsense! Please get rid of MS Office!Please do NOT copy anything MS Office has leavethis lethargic conglomeration of software vendorsMS purchased and created the 2G office suitethat is full of security holes.I hope they go their own route and NO one needsa office suite that cost $400+$700 for a companyseat...
- Tags: Microsoft Office, Google Inc., Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2009-10-22
- Don't tase me in the chest, bro
- Seems like a legal memo to me...It seems to me that when a person receives an electric shock, it doesn't matter where it enters the body, chest, legs, shoulder, neck etc. All the same.Taser is starting to cover it's behind, now that a Canadian judicial enquiry has determined that in...
- Tags: What-if IT, NOW IT, TASER, aspirin, chest, cop, risk
- Discussion threads 2009-10-21
- BlackBerry the choice of organized crime
- You mean police have to workand do things themselves instead of casting a massive net over everyone? What a shame...well its good for RIM ....As for gang member there is one thing i never understood .Why does the a real clean up have been never made ....you set...
- Tags: Handhelds, organized crime, RIM BlackBerry, RCMP
- Discussion threads 2009-10-19
- Will Windows Mobile jump back to number 2 by 2013?
- Don't summon the marketing people...Win7 house party ads check cNet Buzz Report for a nice roast, Bill Gates shaking his posterior, and misleading Laptop Hunters ads...these are the people you want to sell people on WinMo?Personally I'd say to have MS do the same thing that they mostly do with...
- Tags: Mobile operating systems, Operating systems, Telecom & Utilities, Handhelds, Wireless and Mobility, phone, advertisement, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows Mobile, Microsoft Windows, mobile, WinMo
- Discussion threads 2009-10-01
- Protest of Swedish domain name rules grows
- Nice intent, bad ideaWhat happens when someone's personal, or company's name is Bank, Banker, Banks or some variation on the word?What if I'm trying to start an environmental management site for sustainable fishing called, "The Georges Banks"? Or my new bar and grill, "The Iowa River Bank"?Crazy ideaIf only...
- Tags: Financial services, bank, domain name
- Discussion threads 2009-09-25
- Pharmacist pushback against insurer drugs-by-mail plan
- You've got some good points, but...from where I'm sitting the problem is a whole lot bigger than you make it out to be.Thanks for bringing this topic up.Yes, there is a great deal of truth that "drugs-by-mail" operations supported by health insurance plans do hit the smaller pharmacies. However...
- Tags: Insurance, Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, pharmacist, pharmacy, MEDCO, Kerr, insurance company, CVS Corp., health care
- Discussion threads 2009-09-15
- Not your father's tech school
- Recently, I've had the opportunity to visit our local vacational/technical school several times. When I was a kid, the voc tech school was only for dropouts, burnouts, and pregnant girls, with the occasional budding mechanic thrown in for good measure. This couldn't be further from the case now...
- Tags: School, Clinical Trial, Tech School, Healthcare, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2009-09-09
- How a software engineer tried to save his sister and invented a breakthrough medical device
- A CREDIT TO ENTREPENEURSThis is the stuff of history; Thomas Edison, Alexander Fleming, John Logie Baird.I lost my sister to cancer at age 36yrs so he has my heartfelt sympathy and utmost admiration Robert Goldman is the kind of person who should be nominated for a Nobel Prize in Medicine.RE:...
- Tags: software, GoldMan, breakthrough medical device
- Discussion threads 2009-09-03
- Health insurance is an oxymoron
- Meaningful reformOne. Allow insurance companies to offer any kind of plan they want ranging from catastrophic to "we'll pay for pimples," and price them accordingly. Eliminate the requirement that insurance companies have to cover pre-existing conditions without being able to charge higher rates.Two. Lower the costs of being in the...
- Tags: Financial Planning, Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, health insurance, insurance, health care, insurance company, personal responsibility
- Discussion threads 2009-08-25
- News to know: Microsoft; Apple; Palm; Twitter as botnet command channel
- Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage. Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft Exchange 2010 buzz grows louder Ryan Naraine: Brazilian ID thieves using Twitter as botnet command channel...
- Tags: Google Inc., Larry Dignan, Palm Inc., Microsoft Zune, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Twitter, Sam Diaz, Tablets, Notebooks, Digital Cameras, Digital Music, Digital Media, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology
- Blog posts 2009-08-14
- Placing blame for the XTent failure
- Science, Research, and Data Are Not To Blamefor these rest on the scientific method. Instead, other social factors are to blame:The irresponsibility of our public media in chronically sensationalizing news for the sake of entertaining rather than informing the public;The caution practicing physicians must exercise to avoid liability in...
- Tags: comparative effectiveness, Paxil, XTent, stent
- Discussion threads 2009-08-07
- Risk rating for fatties?
- Risk rating for fatties?But where are the exceptions?My wife went on heavy steroids when she was treated for acute leukemia. That changes your shape pretty fast - guess you could call it a bloating side effect.Actually, I prefer the tax on "fat food", including sugar based drinks, to build...
- Tags: Vertical industries, Financial Planning, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, insurance company, government, insurance, health care, fatty
- Discussion threads 2009-07-29
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