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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
- Go with the generic
- It was fun this morning, watching the contortions of the morning anchors as they tried to spin the bad news about Zetia without admitting the plain, simple truth. If your cholesterol is high go with the generic. While Zetia and Vytorin, which combines Zetia...
- Tags: Generic, Zetia, Insurance, Branding, Operational Accounting, Business Operations, Corporate Insurance, Marketing, Finance, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-03-31
- 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
- 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: 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
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