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Generic Lipitor and Caduet under your 2011 Christmas tree

What this means is that by Christmas of 2011 if I live long enough I could replace drugs which now cost $60/month in co-pays with a single generic pill costing as little as $10/month. by Dana Blankenhorn

Tags: Pfizer Inc., Lipitor, Statins, Simvastatin, Healthcare, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2008-06-18

Health conspiracies usually aren't

Health conspiracies usually aren'tExonerated?Don't you mean implicated? If not, please explain.How old was Woody Allen in Sleeper?Remember the scene in "Sleeper" where Woody's character, a health food nut, is surrounded by doctors smoking cigarettes and drinking martinis?Don't think tobacco will be rehabilitatedThe health problems associated with tobacco usage over...

Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, statin, Health conspiracy, health care, Statins

Discussion threads 2008-03-03

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

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Pediatric market opened to statins

Pediatric market opened to statinsPediatric market opened to statinsI hope this article is a joke of some sort. I can't imagine an 8 year old having to take a statin drug. I have to ask the question, what has changed since we were kids to today that is...

Tags: statin, Pediatric

Discussion threads 2008-07-07

Pediatric market opened to statins

Yes, if you have to give your kid a statin at 8 to prevent a future heart attack I think there is something wrong with your parenting. But should the kid pay for it with an early death? When it can be prevented? by Dana Blankenhorn

Tags: Recommendation, Blade Servers, Utility Computing, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Servers, Security, Hardware, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2008-07-07

GSMs offer new link between Alzheimer's and heart disease

What makes GSMs so promising is that, while statins may stop plaque from forming they do nothing about plaque which is there, while with the new drugs "GSM agents actually stick to the Abeta already in the brain, keeping it from aggregating." by Dana Blankenhorn

Tags: Alzheimer's Disease, Protein, GSM, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2008-06-13

Diabetes is also heart disease

Diabetes is also heart diseaseCalling Steve and Bill......where's my USB blood sugar tester? Where's my USB urine tester? Where's my USB E_Coli-tuned portable field analyzer? Quit the mp3 player refreshes and your horning in on the movie bizniz, and get crackin' building some real life-improvment devices, instead...

Tags: Digital media, Digital music, Diabetes, A1C, Ala

Discussion threads 2008-06-08

Diabetes is also heart disease

Rigorous control of blood sugar won't save diabetics the heart ravages which come with the disease, new studies show. Instead diabetics need to treat themselves as we heart patients do, with statins, blood pressure control, diet, exercise and a baby aspirin before bedtime. Their current regimen for...

Tags: Study, Diabetes, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2008-06-08

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

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

Go with the genericNever take statinsA multi-billion dollar industry based on mass-confusion of correlation with causation. What folly!I've been against statins from the outset. People look at me funny when I insist cholesterols are a good thing. Apparently no one educated them that cholesterol comprises about 99%...

Tags: Insurance, statin, Niacin, generic

Discussion threads 2008-03-31

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

Time to regulate drug prices?

A new survey from the Kaiser Family Foundation, USA Today, and Harvard shows that most Americans now want drug prices regulated This is their chief concern with the industry. Safety and advertising are less important. The study's summary PDF shows people are having a tougher...

Tags: Compound, Industry, Genentech Inc., Risks, Strategy, Management, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2008-03-05

Heart health is easy

There is a reason you're reading a lot of stories right now about heart health. It's American Heart Month. (Picture from Yale New Haven Hospital.) But the news isn't good. Some if it is as serious as, well, a heart attack. As this blog...

Tags: Meat, Health Care, Heart Health, Heart Attack, Vertical Industries, Gender And Diversity, Benefits, Healthcare, Security, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2008-02-12

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

The fight over statinsstatinsStatin drugs are powerful anti-inflammatory agents, and increase perfusion everywhere thru effect upon eNOS. I can appreciate their unqualified use in an ACUTE setting, post heart attack or stroke. My belief is that with prolonged use, the "pleiotropic effects" of this class of drugs may...

Tags: statin

Discussion threads 2008-01-24

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

The value in a failed study

I was always told, in science class, that there is no such thing as a failed experiment. There are experiments which don't yield the results you expected, or predicted, or wanted. But these may be more valuable than something that goes according to plan....

Tags: Study, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2008-01-22

Baby aspirin and the Vytorin scandal

You can't learn everything about a compound while it's patented. (Bayer Leverkusen is the only soccer team I know with a pill in its team shield.) Take aspirin. When I was a little kid my mom gave me baby aspirin for headaches. Little, orange, chewable. Delicious. On...

Tags: Patent, Media, U.S. Congress, Vytorin, Heart Attack, Mini-industry, Team Management, Benefits, Management, Human Resources, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 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