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- Statin era over?
- The era of statins, drugs like Zocor and Lipitor which lower cholesterol levels, may be ending. The FDA's decisions over the last week to reject Merck's Cordaptive and Isis' Mipomersen, coupled with a demand that the makers prove the drugs improve heart outcomes, looks like a turning...
- Tags: Gram, Blood Pressure, Merck & Co. Inc., Lipitor, Healthcare, Federal Government, Government, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-05-07
- Pfizer sues Internet sites selling lipitor
- Pfizer sues Internet sites selling LipitorIf these companies use spam to advertisethen that will make it better.
- Tags: Lipitor, Pfizer Inc., Internet-site
- Discussion threads 2004-09-03
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- Statin era over?
- Statin era over?Somewhat surprised, nice findAlong with my parents, I also take a small, 10mg dosage of statins. I thought lowering LDL levels had a direct correlation with a more healthful circulatory system.I'm really surprised to read that lowering LDL levels is now questioned as having any relevance. ...
- Tags: Statin era, Statin, LDL
- Discussion threads 2008-05-07
- Most commonly searched prescription brands in February 2008
- Brand Name Queries, 000 Chantix 507 Adderall 469 Viagra 348 Ambien 334 Lexapro 274 Effexor 264 Cymbalta 235 Lyrica 233 Seroquel 198 Lipitor 181 Prozac...
- Tags: Brand, Branding, Marketing, NB
- Blog posts 2008-05-01
- Health conspiracies usually aren't
- The world is filled with health conspiracy theorists. (Picture from Sushimoo of a dog wearing a tin foil hat.) My chiropractor finds most conventional health treatments to be a scam. My sister finds chiropractic to be a scam. One of the favorite targets of conspiracy...
- Tags: Fact, Health Care, Statins, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-03-03
- From study to action and the media is culpable
- We in the media have eliminated the lag time between a drug study coming out and recommending action. It's time we cut it out. (Picture of Avorvastatin from NYU's Clinical Correlations, the latest entry in our blogroll. Go Violets!) Or it might be time to hand out...
- Tags: Theory, Media, Gravity, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-01-28
- The fight over statins
- Depending on who you read statins like simvastatin and Lipitor are either the "greatest things evah!" or an out-and-out fraud. There are two reasons for this. Studies of long-term statin use are giving results which sometimes appear unclear; and Statins are an enormous...
- Tags: Alzheimer's Disease, News, Heart Attack, Benefits, Human Resources, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-01-23
- Baby aspirin and the Vytorin scandal
- Baby aspirin and the Vytorin scandalBan Drug TV Commercials?I think it has reached the point where Drug commercials dominate the TV air waves and provide a public disservice many mixed signals.That isn't meant as a blanket indictment of Pharmaceutical companies in general, but it would interesting if you put it...
- Tags: TVs, Now IT, TV industry, Vytorin, Vytorin scandal, TV
- Discussion threads 2008-01-18
- The big pharma credibility gap
- Whenever I visit my family doctor the candyman is there. The candyman is my nickname for my doctor's drug rep, or "detail man." His candy consists of samples. Sometimes, if my symptoms are right, I get some. Candymen may have more to do with your medical visit than...
- Tags: Generic, Industry, Doctor, Fiction, Candyman, Oxfam, Strategy, Corporate Law, Management, Business Operations, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-01-17
- Hobbs shows risks and rewards of predictive health
- Emory's Predictive Health Institute got a qualified endorsement from its keynoter, Dr. Helen Hobbs of UT Southwestern in Dallas right. The PHI wants to marry computing, genetics, and prevention, combining what we learn about your specific genetic make-up with more general knowledge into customized health plans. ...
- Tags: Heart, Health Care, Emory, PHI, LDL, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2007-12-17
- Today's Debate: New drugs or new technology?
- Today's positive investor call on Cardinal Health should lead us to consider this question, namely whether technology or pharmacology should drive medical advances. Cardinal Health was mainly a drug maker and distributor in the 1990s, until accounting scandals laid its stock low. Now, under CEO Kerry Clark,...
- Tags: Drug, Biotechnology, Operational Accounting, Financial Services, Healthcare, Financial Accounting, Finance, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2007-10-09
- Today's Debate: The high cost of prevention
- Pictured here is Dr. Robert Jarvik. Two decades ago he was famous for inventing an artificial heart. Today he is known for selling Lipitor, a statin designed to prevent heart attack and stroke.His personal story is matched by millions like my own.I'm healthy. I have no personal history of disease....
- Tags: Insurance, Dana Blankenhorn, heart attack
- Blog posts 2007-08-27
- My lunch with Ray Ozzie and Scott Guthrie
- My lunch with Ray Ozzie and Scott GuthrieNew Job Opening for OzzieNow that the whole Groove and Live thing has played out -- I think Lipitor is looking for a new spokesman...and Ozz has the Robert Jarvik lips and all...so, a natural match.XBAP'sI thought XBAPs were going to be the...
- Tags: Apollo, rich Internet application, Microsoft Windows Presentation Foundation, XBAP, Ray Ozzie
- Discussion threads 2007-04-30
- Google's medical push
- Google’s Adam Bosworth is on a mission, a medical one, evangelizing that “increased and more targeted use of technology will help improve healthcare for all.”Since December, Bosworth, Vice President, Engineering, has been making a Google case for empowering consumers via health information technology.Below is a summary.“Connecting Americans to Their Health...
- Tags: Search, Google Software Applications, Google
- Blog posts 2007-04-03
- Google and Wal-Mart diagnose $4 trillion health care market
- Can the worlds largest search engine and the worlds largest retailer solve the nations health care problems?The U.S. health care market is projected to be a $4 trillion one by 2015.Google Vice President Adam Bosworth and Wal-Mart Vice Chairman John Menzer are personally invested in seeking to improve the health...
- Tags: HEALTHCARE, Vertical industries, Google Inc., health, health care, Wal-Mart Stores Inc.
- Blog posts 2007-03-29
- Cuba targets illegal TV dishes as U.S. weapon
- Cuba targets illegal TV dishes as U.S. weaponThe Iranians say the same thingbut the enforcement is not there. The police have their own dishes!The US Government FCC allows Americans to receive ANY broadcast, ANY time, ANY frequency, period. They do however restrict regulate broadcasting. This allows for subversive regimes to...
- Tags: Vertical industries, airwave, government, Cuba, broadcasting, advertisement, U.S. Government, TV
- Discussion threads 2006-08-09
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