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Blue Cross/Blue Shield in North Carolina Developed Algorithm To Limit Access to Selected Spinal Procedures To Save Money

Here we are again faced with keeping costs down and one more stipulation by health insurers to limit access based on numbers which are generated to show evidence based medicine. We have one problem here though as that new products and procedures...

Published Sat, Dec 12 2010 4:45 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Insurance, FDA, Blue Cross, Patents, Blue Shield, minimally invasive procedures, FTC, queries for money, websites, spinal fusion, spine injuries, North Carolina, consumer watchdog, algoirthims

Abbott Diabetes Care Recalls Tons of Glucose Test Strips–The US Has the FDA Recall Blues-Solution Has Been Touted Here for a Year-It’s Time for a Fix–Readers Have Voted

It’s just about one year now since I started this campaign with using Bar Codes, Microsoft Tags and I’m up to around 60 posts on the topic now, and just about every time there’s a recall, I do another post. Look how retailers and consumers are using...

Published Thu, Dec 12 2010 12:10 AM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Pharma/FDA News, drugs, microsoft, Medical Devices, Pharma, FDA, Twitter, cell phones, Recalls, Scanning, Abbot Labs, MicrosoftTags, luddites

Fake Viagra And Cialis Bust In North Carolina One of the Biggest in Years–Still Need Bar Coding of Products and Devices to Help Out

This is good to see one of those folks get caught as I like everyone else get tired of the spam that seems to to along with this, so perhaps with a major bust like this maybe the spammers might have less to spam us with? That of course is the bonus...

Published Wed, Dec 12 2010 3:00 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Pharma/FDA News, Medical Devices, FDA, Diabetes, cell phones, Johnson and Johnson, Roche, Recalls, Becton Dickinson, bar coding, Microsoft Tags, tech denial, mobile communications

Pfizer Recalls More Stinky 19,000 Lipitor Bottles

When the weather gets bad the treating of pallets moves inside and this is the result most of the time, even though the Lipitor may not be on wood pallets. 2011 is going to be an interesting year too as both Lipitor patents run out, one in March...

Published Mon, Dec 12 2010 9:44 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Pharma/FDA News, FDA, Pharmacies, Pfizer, Recalls, Lipitor, ordor, bar coding, MicrosoftTags

Spinal Cord Injury Patient Treated With Non-Matched Donor Adult Stem Cells Is Walking Again

MediStem is located in San Diego and this was the first patient to be injected with stem cells from a donor as he had severe spinal cord damage a result of an accident. This is totally amazing with the results as he was no longer walking and from...

Published Fri, Dec 12 2010 6:18 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Pharma/FDA News, healthcare, Biotech, FDA, clinical trials, R and D, Stem Cells, Geron, UCI Irvine, embryonic stem cells, Medistem

NeuroWave Systems Approved by the FDA for Brain Monitoring During Anesthesia

The device is to be used during anesthesia, which would be during surgical procedures and this is the first device approved for NeuroWave. The company has used grants and other donations to get started and had not had any investors, so a lot of...

Published Fri, Dec 12 2010 2:08 AM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Pharma/FDA News, Surgery, EEG, FDA, intensive care, anesthesia, NeuroWave, electrodes, brain monitoring

UnitedHealthcare Disrupts Insulin Users So Either Change or Pay More–No Generics Here, Just a Bidding War For A Contract

NovoLog users can avoid a price spike by switching to another insulin, Humalog per United Healthcare and this is all a shake up of a bidding/contract situation, so who ever comes in at the lower bid moves to the cheap spot at tier 1 and the other ends...

Published Mon, Dec 12 2010 8:16 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Pharma/FDA News, drugs, Medical Devices, FDA, Diabetes, insulin, Heatlhcare, China, UnitedHealthcare, Mergers and Acquisitions, Ingenix, Formularies, tiers, i3, ChinaGate

FDA Lays Off Senior Staff Members to Make Room for Younger People-Probationary Incompetence or the Opportunity to Resign

The article states that Beth Martino felt uncomfortable around those who know more than she does and wanted to be surrounded by more people closer to her age. Was it going to also cost more to keep those employees on the government health plan too...

Published Mon, Dec 12 2010 5:36 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, FDA, Layoffs, Sebelius, specialists, 50, incompetence, journalists, age

DePuy ASR Implant Patient Discusses Her Surgeries with the ASR Hip Replacements

Here’s a report on a patient that is looking at her 4th hip implant and a bit of history on the investigation as far as to how the implant was approved and if the failures should have been brought to light sooner. As timing would have it, Kaiser Permanente...

Published Wed, Dec 12 2010 10:32 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Pharma/FDA News, Surgery, infection, Medical Devices, Lawsuit, FDA, Johnson and Johnson, Recalls, Pain, orthopedic surgeon, Depuy, hip, replacement surgery, Journal of Athroplasty, ceramic, hip implant, metal to metal

Inspire Sleep Apnea Implant Gets FDA Approval To Begin Pivotal Clinical Trial

The trial will be carried out at several locations and Inspire is a spinoff of Medtronic. The constant interruption of sleep can lead to cardiac issues. On each breath the nerve in your neck restores muscle tone to the tongue and it does not...

Published Wed, Dec 12 2010 2:41 AM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Pharma/FDA News, Medical Devices, FDA, Heatlhcare, Implants, Obstructive Sleep Apnea, sleep disorders, breathing, Inspire Medical Systems, Sleep Apnea

X-spine Announces New FDA Product Approval for Spinal Fusion–Minimally Invasive

Everybody knows someone with back problems and/or injuries and now technology has so many different solutions from implants to devices that also reduce pain. With some of the systems with X-Spine the procedure is done with a very small incision...

Published Tue, Nov 11 2010 9:56 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Pharma/FDA News, Surgery, FDA, Implants, Back Surgery, incision, minimally invasive procedures, spine injuries, X-Spine, plates

Stolen Bristol-Myers Squibb Products–Truck Heist–When Are We Going to Bar Code Drugs and Medica Devices–Scan With Cell Phone

It keeps happening along with recalls, but nobody has done a thing and yet the technology is here to help. Eli Lilly Pill Heist in Connecticut – Worth a Few Million on the Black Market And Should Have Been “Tagged” for Identification To Help Identify...

Published Thu, Nov 11 2010 3:29 AM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Pharma/FDA News, healthcare, microsoft, EHR, Surface, PHR, FDA, HealthVault, RFID, Heatlhcare, Safety, Microsoft Tags, Connected Conference, Heat Map, Bing, BristolMyers-Squibb

HiRes 90K Cochlear Ear Implant Recalled By Advanced Bionics To Address Safety Concerns With FDA

The first time I heard of the implant was in the movie “Sicko” where the insurance company would only pay for one cochlear implant for a baby losing its hearing and a lot has happened since that time with many being able to hear again so the recall is...

Published Wed, Nov 11 2010 10:51 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Pharma/FDA News, healthcare, Medical Devices, FDA, Safety, hearing, recall, cochlear implant, Advanced Bionics

FDA Approves Roll On Testosterone Axiron

This took a while as of January of 2009 the phase 3 trials were closing on the drug. This was a combined effort of Eli Lilly and Acrux pharma to develop the drug. Acrux – Roll on Testosterone Lotion Trial The usual warnings as we see with...

Published Wed, Nov 11 2010 1:44 AM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Pharma/FDA News, FDA, clinical trials, Lilly, testosterone, hormone therapy, Lotion, Acrux

Head of FDA Criminal Office Retires After WhistleBlower Reported Misconduct

The Office of Criminal investigation at the FDA finds counterfeit and adulterated medicines, and helped bring federal cases to court. The budget for the office has grown, which is a good thing and the FDA also stated that they would have liked to...

Published Tue, Nov 11 2010 10:31 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Pharma/FDA News, FDA, WhistleBlower, Grassley, criminal investigations, complaint, OCI

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