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RememberItNow! Web Based Program and PHR – Text Messages and Emails Sent for Medication Reminders

We have one more new entry into the PHR business and this service will send messages to your cell phone to remind you when to take your pills. We are talking about “compliance” once more. Again, you can share this information with whom you...

Published Fri, Mar 03 2010 7:37 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Pharma/FDA News, drugs, Health IT, PHR, Personal Health Records, software, cell phones, Heatlhcare, Medications, text messages, RememberItNow

FDA and NIH Working To Accelerate Development of Innovative Medical Technologies – It’s All In the Software

Personally from doing this blog it doesn’t appear to me that we have a shortage in the development area, but where the issues lie is in standards and bringing some of this to a better collaborative effort. You do NOT want to rush the programmers...

Published Wed, Mar 03 2010 2:49 AM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Pharma/FDA News, drugs, Medical Devices, FDA, software, NIH, Translational Medicine, Fast Track, algorithm, innnovation

FDA Gives the Ok for Botox To Be Used for Muscle Spasms In the Wrist and Finger Areas of the Hand

This proves interesting as Allergan back in October last year filed a law suit for the “off label” warning to be removed, in other words the “black box” warning. Allegan is also facing competition in this area that sells the same product for a cheaper...

Published Tue, Mar 03 2010 10:08 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Pharma/FDA News, drugs, FDA, Botox, Allergan, Pain, Injections, sweating, wrinq, muscles, spams, flexor

Will the “Stent Wars” Ever End – We Want to Be Able to Afford them Boston Scientific Files Cross Appeal

We are back to the same 3 companies again, Johnson and Johnson, Boston Scientific and Abbott, same questions over “patents” and more legal expenses to pass along to consumers in the price of a stent. If these 3 could settle their differences and...

Published Sat, Mar 03 2010 12:14 AM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Pharma/FDA News, drugs, healthcare, Medical Devices, Pharma, Biotech, FDA, Stents, Recalls, Legal Suits, Investments, Boston Scientific, Microsoft Tags, Johnson and Johson

Express Scripts Pilot To Begin Testing the Glow Cap Wireless Pill Container – Wireless Medication Monitoring

The pilot will start out with a small trial and will graduate to a larger trial based on chronic disease control medications, diabetes, cholesterol, and high blood pressure. Some of the comments in the article stated the messages were annoying but...

Published Tue, Mar 03 2010 2:17 AM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Technology, Insurance, Pharma/FDA News, EMR, drugs, healthcare, Pharma, PHR, Prescriptions, Fines, personal health record, Express Scripts, overcharges, Vitality

Epocrates Entering the Mobile EHR Market

For years I have relied just as a consumer on looking up medications through my mobile device and have shown it to countless physicians and now the company is graduating up to it’s own offering. If you look on the blog, I have always had their free...

Published Mon, Mar 03 2010 5:42 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, drugs, Medical Records, EHR, Cell phone, Pills, Google Health, Epocrates, Formularies, mobile medical

Bayer USB Contour USB Plug and Play Device Available for Diabetics for Glucose Monitoring in the UK and Ireland

Medical devices that report data continue to evolve. I do have to say that I never thought that I would hear plug and play with diabetes monitoring in the same device or sentence. You can find out more at the FAQ section and the device is...

Published Mon, Mar 03 2010 1:08 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Pharma/FDA News, drugs, FDA, Diabetes, software, Heatlhcare, Bayer, Computer, glucose monitoring, devices that report data, plug and play, Contour USB

Merck Buying Millipore in Massachusetts for $6 billion – Life Sciences and Chemicals Acquisition

As mentioned before, Merck is heavy in cash resources and now is buying US firm Millipore. One other item of interest too is that we always think of Merck as a pharma company only, when in fact their chemical division has interests outside of the...

Published Sun, Feb 02 2010 9:50 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Pharma/FDA News, drugs, medicare, Pharma, Merck, Heatlhcare, Medco, Life Sciences, chemicals, Bravo health, Millipore, acquisitions and mergers

Asymptomatic Depression: Hidden Epidemic and Huge Untapped Market (Reality Check)

This is just way too funny and I felt this needed to be shared! With all the ridiculous commercials that run on TV and that are shown on the internet today you sometimes wonder are suggestive methodologies being used? I am not reducing...

Published Mon, Feb 02 2010 3:17 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Need a Laugh, drugs, healthcare, Humor, Medical Humor, analytics, anti depressants, reality check, Asymptomatic Depression

Avandia Will Help Control Diabetes But You Could be At Risk of Cardiac Arrest in Doing So

This is the big question on the minds of the FDA, Congress and others. Are you getting treatment for one ailment and creating another one? Who has the best drug with the least amount of side effects and what’s in it for profit? It is...

Published Mon, Feb 02 2010 1:53 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Pharma/FDA News, drugs, healthcare, FDA, Diabetes, Safety, Side Effects, Research and Development, Transparency, heart attacks, Glaxo Smith Kline, Avandia

Where’s Some of the Focus for Johnson and Johnson Revenue Cycles – “Legally Patented Stent Wars”?

I am not picking per se here, but gee every time I turn around I keep hearing about one suit after another with appeals, awards, etc. all going back to “patent wars”, and with present economic conditions, who cares. All I know is that consumers...

Published Sun, Feb 02 2010 1:57 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Pharma/FDA News, drugs, healthcare, Medical Devices, Pharma, Biotech, FDA, Recalls, Legal Suits, Investments, Boston Scientific, CE Mark, Microsoft Tags, Johnson and Johson

Johnson and Johnson Drops Investment for MRSA Drug Development After Failing to Meet European CE Mark & FDA Approvals

Basilea Pharmaceutica and Johnson and Johnson worked together on the drug for MRSA infections and after not meeting quality and monitoring standards with both the FDA and European Regulators, J and J says goodbye to Basilea and you are on your own, no...

Published Sun, Feb 02 2010 2:28 AM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Pharma/FDA News, drugs, healthcare, Medical Devices, Pharma, Biotech, FDA, MRSA, Recalls, Legal Suits, Investments, CE Mark, Microsoft Tags, Johnson and Johson, Basilea Pharmaceutica

Walgreens Buys Duane Reade Drug Stores – Gives Them A Big Footprint in New York

This purchase puts Walgreens in the New York market. The mergers and acquisitions in healthcare continue to roll. You can see the investor take in this article when you read this last paragraph as to how tight they are tied into their business...

Published Wed, Feb 02 2010 11:12 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Pharma/FDA News, drugs, healthcare, Investors, Pharma, Prescriptions, Wall Street, Mergers and Acquisitions, Walgreens, drug stores, Duane Reade

Study Shows 1 out of 5 Prescriptions Are Not Filled – E-prescribing Software & Pharmacy Records Compared

This is probably as close as you are going to get with a comparison. As many patient prescriptions are not tracked if hand written and a $4.00 generic is filled. One good part about the study shows a high rate of pain pills not being...

Published Wed, Feb 02 2010 8:36 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Insurance, drugs, healthcare, Prescriptions, e-prescribing, Pay for Performance, Medications, Study, healthcare reform, compliance

Viagra Patent Rejected By US Trademark Office – Not Much Different Than Horny Goat Weed

Here’s some more healthcare money being spent on legal suits over ED drugs. You know if pharma keeps up with all these extensive legal battles it might begin to start depleting some profits and of course it keeps the cost up there for us. ...

Published Tue, Feb 02 2010 9:04 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Pharma/FDA News, drugs, Medical Devices, Pharma, Viagra, R and D, Patents, ED, erectile dysfunction, healthare, Goats, Horny Goat Weed, Cialis, Coffee, court cases, herb, trademark

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