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- 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
- Reducing drug development costs
- As it now costs a whopping $800 million to develop a new drug, American researchers have developed a forecasting computer model which could reduce drug development costs, saving hundreds of millions of dollars per new drug. Their Bayesian network model is based on publicly available data about 500 successful and...
- Tags: Computers &, Internet, Health &, Medicine
- Blog posts 2007-02-15
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- A plea to the Windows team: Don't make Windows 7 too Mac-like
- A plea to the Windows team: Don't make Windows 7 too Mac-likeCrawl Back Under Your RockWe didn't miss you.The only onesIts just that Mac does it better.Good for MacThinking like this will only keep Windows stagnant and drive up Apple market share. I thought the Mac ads were parody, but...
- Tags: Desktops, Operating systems, team, Apple Macintosh, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows Vista
- Discussion threads 2008-12-03
- Microsoft disparages open-source TCO with year-old case study
- Microsoft disparages open-source TCO with year-old case study1.48 Million?!Does the study actually list where this kind of money was saved? Because I honestly do not see it. There would have to be a HUGE difference in IT cost to account for that.RE: Microsoft disparages open-source TCO with year-old case studySounds...
- Tags: ROI/TCO, Microsoft Corp., TCO, open source
- Discussion threads 2008-12-03
- The good news about cancer
- The good news about cancerBowel cancer and rotting meats.There is an unarguable link between eating meat and bowel cancer. Eat meat by all means (heck, we wouldn't even have many animals left if it weren't for our consumption of them) but limit it.As it stays rotting in your gut the...
- Tags: OSA
- Discussion threads 2008-11-28
- Facebook wins $873 million judgement against spammer
- Major news sources are reporting that Facebook has won a $873 million dollar judgement against a Canadian spammer. What this means for spam on social networks is not clear, however. Adam Guerbuez of Montreal, CA, had a judgement of $873 million dropped on him by a...
- Tags: Facebook, Judgement, Spammer, E-mail World, E-mail, Spam, Social Networking, Cyberthreats, Online Communications, Security, Spam And Phishing, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Adam O\'Donnell
- Blog posts 2008-11-24
- Who will lead Obama-era FCC?
- Who will lead Obama-era FCC?Gee another Bush Doctrine supporter...Is this why Palin will be running in 2012? Let me guess, she already has your vote.Considering that the election is over ...there are serious issues to discuss. It's time to deal with those issues. It's time to stop snarking "commie"...
- Tags: Vertical industries, HEALTHCARE, Obama, Obama-era FCC, government
- Discussion threads 2008-11-17
- Kindle Economics
- Kindle EconomicsMainstreamI own a kindle and I love it. However, at it's current price point it is only appropriate for a) people who read tons of books and can justify the purchase I know of very few people who read so avidly or b) people with a lot of disposable...
- Tags: Digital rights management (DRM), Notebooks, Fermi, Kindle Economics, laptop computer
- Discussion threads 2008-11-16
- Apple sued over hairline cracks in iPhone 3G
- Apple sued over hairline cracks in iPhone 3GIf you HYPE .....you'd better be prepared to DELIVER!Sounds like a drug dealer's advertismentFree crack with every iPhone. ]:)RE: Apple sued over hairline cracks in iPhone 3GHere in the lower Midwest it is normal to be bumped back and off the 3G....
- Tags: Cellular phones, WIRELESS, Apple iPhone, 3G, Apple Inc., Apple iPhone 3G, crack
- Discussion threads 2008-11-14
- The silver bullet of preventive care
- The silver bullet of preventive careRethink it."It is chronic conditions, like diabetes, that are driving up your health insurance rates. Better compliance reduces those costs."No. It is poor personal choices and lifestyles, along with legal climate, that are ramping up costs! I'm not just surmising on this: ...
- Tags: HEALTHCARE, Vertical industries, Benefits, Insurance, health care, Max Baucus, preventive care, personal choice
- Discussion threads 2008-11-14
- Gallery: Feeling sick? Take a pill with a chip
- The iPill includes a microprocessor, battery, pH sensor, temperature sensor, RF wireless transceiver, fluid pump and drug reservoir. by Andy Smith
- Tags: Sensor, Chip, iPill, Andy Smith, Philips, medicine, drugs
- Image galleries 2008-11-13
- Take the CRP in my blood down, or the new statin dance
- Many people with low cholesterol have heart attacks anyway, and a drug trial known as JUPITER, bankrolled by a statin maker, found that reducing CRP levels actually cut risks of a stroke or other other coronary event by half. by Dana Blankenhorn
- Tags: Dana Blankenhorn, Blood, Protein, Cholesterol, CRP, NEJM
- Blog posts 2008-11-10
- Maybe CRM for Facebook Does Make Sense :)
- My friend and colleague Jim Shepherd of AMR set me straight this morning about what Salesforce.com is doing with Facebook, and I'm embarrassed to admit I didn't get it right the first time. According to Jim, when it comes to SFDC and Facebook, CRM actually stands for Child Relationship Management....
- Tags: Facebook, Feature, CRM, Advertising & Promotion, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Enterprise Software, Marketing, Software, Joshua Greenbaum
- Blog posts 2008-11-06
- Childhood drug epidemic is a weighty matter
- Childhood drug epidemic is a weighty matterWell DUH!And it's a mixture of problems that is causing the issue of childhood obesity:1. Cheap unhealthy food that is easy and plentiful: Read McDonald's and the likes of them.2. Poor parenting, the parents are failing to teach good dietary habits and reinforce this...
- Tags: Food & Beverage, obesity, organ, Well DUH!
- Discussion threads 2008-11-03
- Preemption case went before Supremes today
- Preemption case went before Supremes todayI have to wonder...Suppose the SCOTUS rules that manufacturers aren't liable because the FDA gave the product their blessing.By extension then, could auto manufacturers be liability free once their auto are approved by the applicable agencies (NTSB and/or NHTSA)? Would airplane manufacturers be liability free...
- Tags: Litigation, Supreme, Preemption case
- Discussion threads 2008-11-03
- Childhood drug epidemic is a weighty matter
- You want your teenager to lose a foot, or face a lifetime of injections? Or would you rather be turned down on your next job application because your kid has a pre-existing condition? by Dana Blankenhorn
- Tags: Job, Recruitment & Selection, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Dana Blankenhorn, Kid
- Blog posts 2008-11-03
- Spammers targeting Bebo, generate thousands of bogus accounts
- The concept of building a fraudulent ecosystem by abusing legitimate services only is nothing new, and as we've already seen numerous times throughout the year, malicious attackers are actively embracing it. Bebo, the popular social networking site is currently under attack from spammers that are automatically registering thousands of bogus...
- Tags: Bebo, Spammer, Social Networking Site, Social Networking, Spam, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Security, Spam And Phishing, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2008-10-31
- Do you have a call notification system?
- Quite a few districts have rolled out automated call notification systems in the last few years. As we become increasingly mobile, it can be harder to reach parents and students, especially post-Columbine, when time and communication are not only vitally important, but politically expedient. We're rolling...
- Tags: District, Student, Microsoft Excel, Telecom & Utilities, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-10-28
- The technologies which will change our lives
- The technologies which will change our livesThe real areas of change are nanorobotics and AI.Companies such as Zyvex and Novamente are working on nanomanufacturing and AI and they predict 5 or so years until products are available. Such products would allow for everyone to live disease and aging free,...
- Tags: INTERNET, Semiconductors, Network technology, nanotechnology
- Discussion threads 2008-10-25
- News to know: Gates' new company, Apple, Android, Microsoft
- Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Mary-Jo Foley: Bill Gates founds a new tech company John Morris: Apple: Mac sales still strong, some "interesting ideas" for netbooks Sam Diaz: Steve...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Dana Blankenhorn, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Blu-Ray, Web 2.0, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 2, Software As A Service (SaaS), Smart Cards, Personal Technology, DVD, Home Entertainment, Internet, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Emerging Technologies, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2008-10-23
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