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Aetna and Costco create yet another prescription program

One more program to confuse us when needing a prescription, although I’m sure there is money to be saved here, but shoot I like the $4.00 or $10.00 generic prescriptions offered by others, no enrollment and no questions asked, simple. For the monthly...

Published Thu, Nov 11 2008 12:48 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Insurance, Pharma/FDA News, Other Items of Interest, drugs, healthcare, health insurance, Prescriptions, Medicare Part D, Aetna, Pharmacy, Costco

Leading Medical Groups Advise Against Avandia – FDA to Research – Education Needed

I will once more mention a potential change of paradigms here with educating the public. Each patient who took the drug is unique. Do we have any information on other drugs they were taking at the same time? Groups will continue to...

Published Fri, Oct 10 2008 2:27 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Pharma/FDA News, Other Items of Interest, drugs, healthcare, Pharma, PHR, FDA, Marketing, paradigms, personal heatlh records

Fred Baron Dies, Despite Being Given Tysabri

Even folks with money and in high positions have problems getting access to cancer drugs, as you can read below, and this was not an issue of not being able to afford the medication. When you read items as such, it makes you stop and think how precious...

Published Fri, Oct 10 2008 1:44 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Pharma/FDA News, Other Items of Interest, drugs, Cancer, Tysabri, Access to medications, Cancer Drugs, Fred Baron, Biogen

Pharmacogenomics: UC San Diego To Lead Nationwide Program to educate pharmacists

New program to educate pharmacists on pharmacogenomics. The efforts are going forward to help the pharmacists also explain to the patients how it works and what the information has to offer. The new group of graduates will be the first group...

Published Fri, Oct 10 2008 1:12 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Other Items of Interest, Genomics, drugs, Pharmacy, DNA Testing, Phamaceuticals, Pharmacogonomics, healthare

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

Pfizer Joins the Generic Club

I wonder if all the name brand companies will one day have nothing but generics? (grin). There’s always this interesting topic too, biosimilars. “Because biosimilars aren't exact duplicates of the original drugs, they don't violate...

Published Thu, Oct 10 2008 5:57 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Pharma/FDA News, Other Items of Interest, drugs, Pharma, Generic Drugs, Marketing, Pfizer, Biosimilars

Amgen Sales Rep Can Pursue Wrongful Firing Suit

Whistle blowers today seem to be playing a role in the move towards transparency in more ways than one, not to mention the bounty that could be there if a case goes to court and wrongdoing is found to be the case. BD A New Jersey arbitrator ruled...

Published Thu, Oct 10 2008 4:47 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Pharma/FDA News, Other Items of Interest, drugs, Pharma, FDA, Marketing, Amgen, Whistle Blower

Ohio Sales Rep's Information Launched Massive Government Investigation of Cephalon

Whistle blower case where Pharma Sales representative created an investigation and settlement. Whistle blowers can and do receive portions of settlements, and in this case there was $46 million. The uses marketed by Cephalon were not...

Published Mon, Sep 09 2008 4:51 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Pharma/FDA News, Other Items of Interest, drugs, Pharma, Marketing, Whistle Blower, Off Label Drug use, Cephalon

FDA hires 1,300 new doctors and scientists

The drug evaluation department has the largest increase, and oncologists were difficult to find as most make more money on the outside. I wonder if they can find enough for the drug side of the business, as it is changing every day with new applications...

Published Fri, Sep 09 2008 12:38 AM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Pharma/FDA News, Other Items of Interest, drugs, Pharma, FDA, Employment

Illegal Drugs Finding their way into research and development

Interesting article with some good background information about drugs that are close to or are related to the "street drugs" as we know them. There are definitely a number of researchers who want to delve into this further, but with bad...

Published Thu, Sep 09 2008 4:44 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Pharma/FDA News, Other Items of Interest, drugs, healthcare, Pharma, FDA, DEA, R and D, street drugs

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

How to Create a Blockbuster - Are there 50 ways?

Interesting correlation on how the move business and Pharma share similar business plans when it comes to producing a blockbuster drug. R and D, yup, got high costs with both, unpredictable, yup, nobody knows until the release, budgets and flops...

Published Thu, Sep 09 2008 10:59 AM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Pharma/FDA News, Other Items of Interest, personalized medicine, drugs, healthcare, Pharma, blockbusters

Roche Helps Catch Tour de France Cheater

Roche has been all over the news this week and one more claim to fame to their technology was the ability to catch an athlete cheating. Athletes still keep trying but hopefully efforts like this will keep the competition honest and fair, nobody...

Published Wed, Jul 07 2008 2:30 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Pharma/FDA News, Other Items of Interest, drugs, Roche, Tour de France

Liver disease therapeutic patents from CellPoint Diagnostics Up on the Auction Block..

Intellectual Property on the auction block, patents with FDA approval. This is the first time I have noticed technology with health care just up on the open auction block, especially as it relates to cancer research. With the acquisition...

Published Thu, Jul 07 2008 6:10 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Other Items of Interest, Genomics, drugs, Biotech, Research

Patients Who Bring Health Information From The Internet Get More Time With Doctor – Read Up!

When you stop and think about it, this makes sense to be the “informed patient”. The less time a physician has to take and explain things to you, that you have already read about on the Internet, the more constructive time you will have . ...

Published Mon, Jul 07 2008 1:14 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Other Items of Interest, drugs, healthcare, Medical Records, FDA, Resarch

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