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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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My First Week With DROID

The DroidI am curious-do you feel an application is coming along that will allow you to do to email what the Blackberry is already doing? Perhaps a software upgrade by Google? Having the ability to pull all your email accounts into one app is much better than what...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows 7, E-mail, ROI/TCO, Droid

Discussion threads 2009-11-15

Apple Safari exposes Windows to drive-by download attacks

"May lead"?Whenever I see these kinds of statements, regardless of platform, I always wonder if the "may" in "may lead to?arbitrary code execution" is equivalent to the odd, statistically improbable and realistically negligible but observed drug side-effect possibilities, like dry-mouth from eye drops or headaches from suppositories or whether it's...

Tags: Linux, Operating systems, SECURITY, Apple Safari, Apple Inc., Microsoft Windows

Discussion threads 2009-11-11

Canadians get a taste of American medical system with IMS Health buy

Oh the ironyJust another ironic investment made on behalf of Canadians over the years. As far as I know CPP is not investing using an ethical or green model, so there are probably lots of examples of very "un-Canadian" companies receiving investment via CPP.Not sure what your point is,...

Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, IMS Health Inc., CPP, Dana, drug company, Obama

Discussion threads 2009-11-06

The fight for medical cost transparency is coming online

Unfortunately the "industry" will manipulate the data to their advantage.Universities cannot force "honest" disclosure of true rates like the government can. I can see another indictment and or law suite for manipulation in a year or two.The colleges work for the governmentIt's semi-privatized, which conservatives will like, but it's...

Tags: Vertical industries, HEALTHCARE, Government, Benefits, health care, transparency

Discussion threads 2009-10-28

Could diabetes fight the obesity epidemic?

Nice one, Dana.When are you going to write something relevant - like IT - on this site?There is no IT in this blog. Just pointing out the obvious.When will you learn to use google?This is among the worst medically releated post you have written. And please stop quoting the...

Tags: Exenatide, diabetes, GLP-1, secretion

Discussion threads 2009-10-23

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

Fare thee well, lovely ToyBox readers: My Top 10 favorite posts

The dreary weather couldn't be better for writing a sad goodbye to my faithful ToyBox readers. The time has come for me to pack up and move on out of the ZDNet family. The last nine months spent as your Gadget Gal have been wonderful, but I have to pass...

Tags: CD, RIM BlackBerry, ToyBox, Handhelds, Hardware, Jennifer Bergen

Blog posts 2009-10-19

Energy prices are about to permanently alter world history

Stop this alarmist nonsense, Harry. Write something about IT. Not your pathetic eco-farts.may be you should check this outhttp://www.livescience.com/common/media/video/player.php?videoRef=LS_091013_IONTigerHydrogen powerthe use of Hydrogen to power a UAVActually...He is right. Energy prices will probably push us to use something else. Besides gas is in limited quantity so we will reach a...

Tags: Strategy, information technology, Energy-Price

Discussion threads 2009-10-15

The T-Mobile-Microsoft Sidekick data disaster: Poor IT management going mainstream

Always have local copies of your dataThe above is why it is a bad idea to put your fate in someone else's hands when you have a choice. By default, keep your data processing and data stores local, and then use cloud services when they suit you. All these kiddies...

Tags: Federal government, Advertising & Promotion, Recruitment & Selection, agency, FDA, job

Discussion threads 2009-10-11

P2P legislation is smart next step in piracy education

Honesty not intelligence"One of the things that has always bothered me about the Recording Industry Association of America and its file-sharing lawsuits is that, for many of those people, their biggest crime is being uninformed."One of the things that has always bothered me about ZDNET and its file-sharing posts: the...

Tags: Peer to peer (P2P), P2P legislation, music, file-sharing, P2P

Discussion threads 2009-10-02

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

Red Book: Report of the committee on Infectious Diseases (RedBk) 12.0.3 (Mobile)

Red Book: Report of the committee on Infectious Diseasespowered by Skyscape Publisher: American Academy of Pediatrics The Red Book - The authorative guide to the latest pediatric infectious disease information brings you the latest clinically tested guidelines on the manifestations, etiology, epidemiology, diagnosis, and treatment of more than 200 conditions....

Tags: Australian Associated Press Pty Ltd., Mobile, Hepatitis, Skyscape Inc., Data Mining, Federal Government, Tools & Techniques, Healthcare, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Government, Management

Software downloads 2009-09-25

News to know: IDF; Skype; New neutrality; HP; Palm; Madoff

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. John Morris: Intel: 32nm is just the beginning Sam Diaz: Intel on laptop chips: Speed kills Mary Jo...

Tags: Larry Dignan, Richard Koman, Hewlett-Packard Co., Twitter Inc., Palm Inc., Andrew Nusca, Skype Technologies S.A., Laptop Computer, Intel Corp., Netbooks, Nettops & MIDs, Microsoft Windows, Notebooks, Hardware, Operating Systems, Software, Notebooks & Tablets, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-09-24

News to know: Intel's IDF; Google; Microsoft; Yahoo

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. Ryan Naraine: Critical iTunes flaw exposes Mac, Windows to hacker attacks Sam Diaz: Otellini at...

Tags: Google Inc., Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., Intel Corp., Cloud Computing, Data Centers, E-mail Providers, Microsoft Windows, Smart Phones, Corporate Communications, Linux, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Internet, Operating Systems, Software, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Marketing, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-09-23

Could Internet filtering cause more harm than good?

A rational blog from ZackA welcome surprise, but perhaps for once, in your area of expertise ;-)You've made some good points. Pedophilia is nothing new and before the Internet pictures, magazines, videos and films were used instead. Just as criminal, just as prosecuted, as are a number of...

Tags: Internet, Internet Filtering, government

Discussion threads 2009-09-16

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