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Pfizer On Its Way Out Of Ann Arbor as facility closes– birthplace of Lipitor

The facility once housed 2100 employees and will be closed soon, down to 100 employees. One more Pharma Manufacturing facility in the US now a part of history. BD The last Pfizer employee at the company’s research center in Ann Arbor...

Published Tue, Oct 10 2008 11:57 AM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Pharma/FDA News
Sentinel Initiative Boosts FDA Safety Oversight

The FDA Sentinel data mining system is still in the beginning stages and the explanation of how it works sounds interesting in the fact that it will be able to query and mine data to create an overall reference, but the article states they are not creating...

Published Mon, Oct 10 2008 11:06 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Pharma/FDA News, healthcare, FDA, HHS, Data Mining, Drug Safety, Sentinel
Eli Lilly Buying ImClone for $6.5 Billion

More action with Big Pharma investing in biotech and they still have a lot of cash around to do so. In time we just might have all the same familiar names around but instead of Pharma they will all be biotech, the next step towards personalized...

Published Mon, Oct 10 2008 10:50 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Pharma/FDA News
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
Sepracor slashes Lunesta ad budget

Is this the commercial? BD Spotted a moth lately? Fewer and fewer people have, and for good reason. Sepracor has started to cut back its consumer ads, making that familiar Lunesta moth something of an endangered critter. At least in comparison with...

Published Mon, Oct 10 2008 3:49 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Pharma/FDA News, Need a Laugh, Lunesta, Drug Ads, Sepracor
How Long is that new knee going to be good for?

Also, when it comes to resurfacing some 2.6 percent of resurfacing patients got a redo in three years too, and the study found that older patients are better off with a total replacement, due to the fact that our b ones as we get older are not as strong...

Published Mon, Oct 10 2008 2:58 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Pharma/FDA News, Surgery, Knee Surgery, Hip Surgery, bone resurfacing
Medco To Begin Working with the FDA – Pharmacogenomics Reporting

This article states part of the reporting system will include information on the willingness of a doctor to use genetic testing, well first of all we need to help the doctors to bring this full circle with the integration into the clinical side of this...

Published Mon, Oct 10 2008 1:35 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Pharma/FDA News, Genomics, drugs, Education, FDA, Pharmaceuticals, Pharmacogenomics, DNA Testing
Emory doc hid $1.2M in Pharma payments – Where’s the audit trails?

I think this article somewhat speaks for itself and why reporting is important and this is probably not the last story we will hear on this. If government had wanted to track this, a data base reporting system could have been set up with applicable...

Published Mon, Oct 10 2008 12:34 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Pharma/FDA News, drugs, Pharma, Congress, Audit Trails, Compensation, reporting
FDA Clearance Of Catheter With Subcutaneous Securement System - Interrad Medical

This stands to reduce catheter-related infections with minimizing catheter motion and less needle contact with a reduction in the needs for additional stitches and less use of tape adhesives. This is reported to the the first of it’s kind...

Published Sun, Oct 10 2008 12:56 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Technology, Pharma/FDA News, Medical Devices, Catheters, Stitching, Sugery, Needles
Intradigm lands $18.5M to advance Oncology treatment

Not only do we see venture capital money here, also some big Pharma names. In a related story, Roche sees diagnostic machines and test kits as crucial to assessing and treating disease in the future and their risk profile has recognition of being...

Published Fri, Oct 10 2008 4:01 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Pharma/FDA News, personalized medicine, Genomics, Pharma, Biotech, R and D, Venture Capitalists
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
FDA: Tiny Bit of Melamine OK in Most Foods But we Still need better labeling and shipping documentation

We still need more labeling and the ability for consumers to identify products when recalls are sent out. Look a the Heparin recall that failed, and that was a drug. In a recent post I had some suggestions that can be read here, including disallowing...

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

Filed under: Medically Related, Pharma/FDA News, drugs, FDA, tainted milk, Melamine, Commerce, Transportation Shipping and Receiving, Food products
Same Image Polisher Has Worked for FDA and Big Pharma

That might explain a couple odd stories of earlier this year, like the pilot program of the “Fake commercials” being tested, but there has also been an attempt to increase awareness at YouTube with FDA material as well, perhaps to even encouraging a bit...

Published Fri, Oct 10 2008 11:47 AM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Pharma/FDA News, Other Items of Interest, Pharma, FDA, YouTube, Advertising, Commercials
Leadership Strategy for the Prevention of Line Sepsis – 10th Leading Cause of Death Worldwide

As this begins the week of the “Never-Never” rules with Medicare and with Sepsis being included on the hospital acquired listings, the group is calling for standards to prevent, which includes the use of minocycline and rifampin impregnated catheters...

Published Fri, Oct 10 2008 11:05 AM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Pharma/FDA News, Other Items of Interest, healthcare, microsoft, Medical Records, Silverlight, Pharma, Cook Medical, CMS, Heatlhcare, Catheters, hospital acquired infections, Server 2008, Never-Never, Sepsis, Thomas Jefferson University, Line Sepsis, Vanderbilt University
Heparin Recalls didn’t work

Several California hospitals were fined as around 20% of those inspected still had heparin and some still administering to patients, but the article doesn’t state when the inspections were conducted, but the recall was last winter after the incident at...

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

Filed under: Medically Related, Pharma/FDA News, Other Items of Interest, heparin, California, Hosptials

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