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The Melamine Nightmare Needs to be Fixed – Business Intelligence Could Help

Melamine, a chemical used as a flame retardant is used to make cooking utensils and industrial coatings, is rich in nitrogen; it makes an attractive low-cost additive to milk and other foods; as nitrogen registers as protein on many routine tests...

Published Sun, Nov 11 2008 11:59 AM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Pharma/FDA News, My Commentaries, FDA, Business Intelligence, China, tainted milk, Melamine, Food products, Congress Pharma, phamaceutical plant inspections, FDA funding
GSK's Witty wants more funds for FDA – Why not step up to the plate with some grants and join the General Education process

This actually a pretty good start and I have had my own campaign of sorts going on with getting the FDA up to speed, and they are definitely having to play catch up, as are some other government agencies. In prior posts I had written that some clinical...

Published Fri, Oct 10 2008 11:45 AM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Pharma/FDA News, My Commentaries, healthcare, Education, Pharma, FDA, Personal Health Records, GSK, Consumer Healthcare, Drug Interactions
FDA will open inspection office in China this year

Some of the duties will be outsourced, but under the control of a local office, and portions of this provision will need an act of Congress, so I might guess now’s the time, or after the election maybe to tackle this issue. I would also like to...

Published Thu, Oct 10 2008 10:40 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Pharma/FDA News, My Commentaries, drugs, FDA, China, Outsourcing, Food products, Congress Pharma
Vassar College Using Tablet PCs for Research and Development

Anyone involved and R and D today can certainly take advantage of a Tablet PC. (I think those new fields reps for the FDA might even like this idea and concept too). Why walk around with an “ open pizza box” notebook, watch the video and see the...

Published Fri, Oct 10 2008 3:12 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Tablet PCs, Technology, Pharma/FDA News, My Commentaries, Tablet PC, Pharma, FDA, R and D, Vassar, College
Almost 13,000 babies in hospital after drinking tainted milk

This is very scary! How many more “economic decisions” will be made with such serious consequences? I was a little disappointed too this week to find even Hershey has found a way to make economic decisions on not putting real cocoa butter...

Published Sun, Sep 09 2008 2:33 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Pharma/FDA News, My Commentaries, healthcare, Counterfeit, FDA, Food, tainted milk, poison formula
FDA Index on Drug Alerts

I spent a little time looking around today and there are many "red stars" on this page, which indicate a safety alert from the FDA. Safety alerts come in all shapes and sizes and a red start does not mean to stop taking medications by...

Published Sun, Sep 09 2008 12:26 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Other Items of Interest, My Commentaries, drugs, Pharma, FDA, Drug Information, Warnings
Desperate Hospitals - Hawaii- What is happening to our Hospital System?

As the old saying goes, things roll downhill and Siemens was the straw that broke the camel's back here. Recently Siemens has been in the news with their own issues with restructuring and lay offs. There are other creditors including Clinical...

Published Sat, Aug 08 2008 3:12 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Insurance, Other Items of Interest, My Commentaries, healthcare, Physicians, FDA, Hospitals, Nursing, bankruptcy, Economics, Desperate Hosptials, Venture Capitalists, Transparancy, Layoffs, Debt consolidation, Overseas Investments, Vendors
FDA on the low end of the Endotec Ruling - Mobile Ankle devices are ok - Medical Devices

This is amazing that the battle has gone on over 25 years to restrict these devices from use in the US. The judge said they are"custom-made medical devices exempt from FDA regulation". This marks the first loss in the court...

Published Mon, Aug 08 2008 6:10 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Pharma/FDA News, My Commentaries, Medical Devices, FDA, Endotec, Joint Replacment, Court, Ankle
GSK Gets on Board with The YouTube Revolution – Well Sort of…

One more Pharma company joins You Tube Channels, GSK, but this post makes a very good point, no embedding, I agree here, what’s up with Glaxo not allowing one to embed! Also as mentioned, where’s the publicity as Eye on the FDA reports that he’s...

Published Fri, Jul 07 2008 11:44 AM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Pharma/FDA News, My Commentaries, Pharma, FDA, You Tube, GSK
A sensible censor for sharing medical records – Anonymize medical records for research…

This could be great news as how many times do medical records need to be anonymized for research, a lot. We all remember the case with the NHS and their mistake made a few months back with the records. This will be nice too if it is...

Published Thu, Jul 07 2008 4:08 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, My Commentaries, techonology, Medical Records, medicare, FDA, HIPAA, MIT, Anonymize
YouTube Comes to Tivo Soon…

You Tube as we all know is no longer just entertainment, there’s many good sites for good educational purposes too, such as the FDA Channel and one other new Channel from Johnson and Johnson. So now physician have another way of reaching patients...

Published Thu, Jul 07 2008 1:25 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Pharma/FDA News, My Commentaries, Video, Education, FDA, YouTube, Johnson and Johnson, J & J, Tivo
Update: Intel FDA Approved Home Care System…

This video gives a littler closer look at the device recently approved by the FDA and can be found on Channel Intel on You Tube. The FDA also has some beneficial videos on their channel on You Tube as well, look for the links in the resources...

Published Wed, Jul 07 2008 1:02 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Pharma/FDA News, My Commentaries, healthcare, Intel, Medical Devices, FDA
Widow Sues After Husband's Suicide – Side Effects?

There seems to be a flurry of lawsuits of late, related to unknown or somewhat known psychological side effects from selected pharma products, and this is one more on the way. I am sure there’s much more research to go on, but how many of the products...

Published Thu, Jul 07 2008 10:46 AM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Pharma/FDA News, My Commentaries, drugs, FDA, Phizer
WellPoint settles Calif. lawsuit and Who’s going to China?

Good news to help some of the financially strapped hospitals here in California, but how much will each one actually see, as 11.8 million among 480 hospitals is not a huge chunk of change. In the meantime though, the current woes for WellPoint continue...

Published Tue, Jul 07 2008 1:12 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Insurance, My Commentaries, drugs, health insurance, FDA, Blue Cross, China, UnitedHealthcare
Could the FDA Twitter? It would be really nice and useful too..

I just started mapping my RSS feeds over to Twitter and the thought came to mind that it sure would be neat for folks like myself and others who follow the approvals and developments over at the FDA to have them on Twitter. On another thought,...

Published Mon, Jul 07 2008 2:33 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Pharma/FDA News, Other Items of Interest, My Commentaries, FDA, Twitter, RSS Feeds

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The Melamine Nightmare Needs to be Fixed – Business Intelligence Could Help

GSK's Witty wants more funds for FDA – Why not step up to the plate with some grants and join the General Education process

FDA will open inspection office in China this year

Vassar College Using Tablet PCs for Research and Development

Almost 13,000 babies in hospital after drinking tainted milk

FDA Index on Drug Alerts

Desperate Hospitals - Hawaii- What is happening to our Hospital System?

FDA on the low end of the Endotec Ruling - Mobile Ankle devices are ok - Medical Devices

GSK Gets on Board with The YouTube Revolution – Well Sort of…

A sensible censor for sharing medical records – Anonymize medical records for research…

YouTube Comes to Tivo Soon…

Update: Intel FDA Approved Home Care System…

Widow Sues After Husband's Suicide – Side Effects?

WellPoint settles Calif. lawsuit and Who’s going to China?

Could the FDA Twitter? It would be really nice and useful too..