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Cook's Medical still growing

The company is a long time veteran in the stent business and not too long ago I had an interview posted here on the blog . The interview related to stents, coated with antibiotics. As the business for stents continues to grow, it seems...

Published Sun, Nov 11 2008 10:29 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, healthcare, Medical Devices, clinical trials, Cook Medical, Stents, peripheral arterial disease, arteries

Biotech may turn to Indian for clinical trials

Nothing new here in what has been posted, but this time the predictions are coming from within Ernst and Young from India. BD The Indian clinical trials market is predicted to continue its growth despite the current financial climate, according...

Published Tue, Nov 11 2008 1:11 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Pharma/FDA News, healthcare, Pharma, clinical trials, R and D, India, Economics, Outsourcing, Employment, Clinic

Removable Medical Device Results In Substantial Weight Loss And Glucose

The reports on the device state that it contributes to both weight loss and normalization of blood glucose levels. In the trials the device was in place for 12 weeks, and then removed. The procedures takes around 30 minutes or so and is done...

Published Wed, Nov 11 2008 10:37 AM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, healthcare, Medical Devices, clinical trials, Diabetes, Glucose, Diet, weight loss, obesity, diabetes 2

Breast Cancer Screening – Radar Breast Imaging in Trials

The technique is called radar breast imaging and is being tested in the UK. One thing for sure it makes the process much more comfortable than what is done presently with a mammogram, three cheers for that and the process is faster. BD Professor...

Published Thu, Nov 11 2008 1:22 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, healthcare, clinical trials, Mammograms, Breast Cancer Screening

Free Cancer Research Tools Available for Clinical Researchers

One of the big changes just like everywhere else in healthcare is integration. It is all open source software and using some nice Web 2.0 applications and now includes a dashboard for easy management and locating program modules and relative information...

Published Wed, Nov 11 2008 5:52 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Other Items of Interest, Cancer, clinical trials, Heatlhcare, National Cancer Institute, Health 2.0, Web 2.0

New Breast Cancer Clinical Trial – Genentech - Trastuzumab-DM1

The trial is for women who have the HER2 gene and have already received treatments, details listed below. BD The Barbara Ann Karmanos Institute is looking for women with HER2 positive metastatic breast cancer to participate in a clinical trial...

Published Tue, Nov 11 2008 12:32 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Pharma/FDA News, clinical trials, Breast Cancer, Genentech

Favrille Biotech and MyMedicalRecords.com, Inc. Announce Merger Agreement

This is a real interesting merger with a biotech company patient-specific immunotherapies for the treatment of cancer and other diseases of the immune system merging with a company that provides personal health records, both companies from California...

Published Mon, Nov 11 2008 8:34 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, healthcare, Biotech, PHR, Google Health, Cancer, clinical trials, Personal Health Records, R and D

Mayo Clinic Says Goodbye to clinical services in the US

This also means some folks will be losing jobs as well. The unit has been in place since 1991 and has provided information on over 1,000 trials. This is just one more sign of how the face of the pharmaceutical business is changing. It is about...

Published Mon, Nov 11 2008 11:13 AM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Pharma/FDA News, healthcare, clinical trials, India, Economics, Mayo Clinic, Outsourcing, China pharma

Clinical trials – More education and better business models needed at the point of care

The general public as a whole are lost when it comes to the complete understanding of how a clinical trial can benefit their potential treatment plans. There is enough information on the web by all means, but how do you get the information to an...

Published Fri, Nov 11 2008 11:19 AM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, drugs, healthcare, EHR, Pharma, PHR, clinical trials, Software integration, Point of Care, Personalized Clinical Trials

Lawmakers Ask Pfizer CEO to Spare U.S. Contractors

Great effort on the members of Congress to “ask”, but the end result is what counts. R and D with major pharmaceutical companies is presently in the business of moving overseas to India and China, as well as some clinical trials, so the impact of...

Published Tue, Nov 11 2008 11:48 AM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Pharma/FDA News, healthcare, clinical trials, Pfizer, China, R and D, India, Outsourcing

Medicare HMO costs keep cancer patients out of clinical trials

The National Cancer Institute has made clinical trial participation a top national priority and yet participant levels are still not perhaps where they could be. Yes, this is a big decision for any patient/physician to make as far as whether or...

Published Sun, Nov 11 2008 11:19 AM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Pharma/FDA News, My Commentaries, Investors, health insurance, Pharma, Cancer, clinical trials, HMO, Pharmaceuticals, R and D, Drug Development, Cancer Institute

Brainsway gets FDA nod for device trial – Another Device for Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation

This certainly seems to be the month of the “brain devices”. Just last week the FDA approved one magnetic device to zap your brain and now we have another company from Israel to begin trials in Israel and 2 other areas. The device approved...

Published Wed, Oct 10 2008 10:57 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Other Items of Interest, FDA, clinical trials, Brain, Depression, obesity, Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation, Brainwaves, Bi-Polar

SERMO CONNECTS HEALTHCARE INVESTORS TO PHYSICIANS VIA BLOOMBERG

Investors and analysts using The Healthcare Exchange will be able to ask questions of physicians, such as their opinions about a new treatment or device. Sermo has been a community website restricted to physicians to compare and collaborate within...

Published Thu, Oct 10 2008 2:39 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Other Items of Interest, drugs, healthcare, Investors, Physicians, Prescriptions, clinical trials, Sermo, Bloomberg, MCconnect, opinions

Novel Lung Cancer Vaccine Trial Launched At Moores UCSD Cancer Center

The new vaccine, Lucanix, is genetically engineered to also trick the cancer into turning off its immune system-suppressing activities, this is a turn in a different direction here where vaccines are normally increase the immune system capabilities. The...

Published Wed, Oct 10 2008 12:44 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Other Items of Interest, Cancer, clinical trials, Chemotherapy, Stage 4, Lung Cancer, Moore UCSD

National Institutes Of Health Launches ClinicalTrials Results Database

This is bringing everything full circle with not only being able to research trials, but results will now be listed as well. As you can see it literally took an “act of Congress” to get the ball rolling. In time as reporting begins the web...

Published Mon, Oct 10 2008 9:47 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Pharma/FDA News, healthcare, clinical trials, NIH, ClinicalTrials.gov., MedlinePlus

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