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When you stop and think about it, all Facebook constitutes is bunch of servers that host images, emails and some applications (algorithms) and that’s about it. Unless you buy a shirt, coffee cup, etc. with Facebook on it, it’s all intangibles worth around $50 Billion. I still have a hard...
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Tue, Jan 18 2011
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Filed under: Other Items of Interest, My Commentaries, Investors, Facebook, Heatlhcare, Investments, Data, Algorithms, IPO, SEC, Goldman Sachs, addictions, electronic trading
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We also now have private equity firms buying hospitals. There’s a hospital and clinic group in southern California called Prime Healthcare and they basically bought up hospitals who were upside down financially and many times it was either a purchase or go out of business. I believe the group...
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Thu, Jan 13 2011
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Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, My Commentaries, healthcare, Investors, health insurance, Algorithms, Cost, formulas, Profits, blockbuster drugs, private equity
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Yes Dendreon is the company that has been all over the news with the vaccine for prostate cancer. As you can see there’s very little income here as they have been operating with money invested and perhaps money gained from the stock market. This company has been on a roller coaster with investors...
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Mon, May 10 2010
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Filed under: Medically Related, Other Items of Interest, My Commentaries, drugs, healthcare, Investors, Biotech, Stocks, Wall Street, Vaccines, Profits, ethics, Dendreon
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Technology in healthcare is rapidly moving into the area of “behavioral diagnostics” and I am saying this with a bit of humor here, but gee look at all the time and money that could have been potentially saved on one Presidential candidates campaign. Now that the Supreme Court seems to think that...
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Mon, Feb 1 2010
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Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, My Commentaries, healthcare, Investors, ADHD, Washington DC, Politics, healthcare reform, behavioral underwriting, candidates, behavioral diagnostics, VC funding, Quotient
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14,000 people every day lose their health insurance and medical bills are causing individuals to lose their homes, bankruptcy and defaulting loans. If we want to fix the economy, then we need to fix healthcare it sounds like to me. The Federal Reserve – What’s the Answer – Roll Back Regulation...
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Sat, Sep 26 2009
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Banks are trying to create new products, but is the new product “Human Hedge” Funds? If you are worried about so called government death panels, then you need to read on here. As I have mentioned many many times, Wall Street invests heavily in Business Intelligence software, they get their...
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Sat, Sep 5 2009
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Diabetes research projects may go on hold. This is sad that the Foundation is having to close and that renovation projects may be delayed or put on hold as well. In the year 2007 the foundation showed a$952 million market value. It makes one wonder if there will be more of these individuals...
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Sun, Dec 21 2008
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A partial listing of some of this clients who are now stuck can be viewed here. If you have not caught up with this story, it is stated to be a 50 billion dollar Ponzi scheme. Healthcare and the charities don’t appear to be coming out of this unscathed, at a time when the news couldn’t...
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Sun, Dec 14 2008
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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 not to enroll, but many trials are offering lifesaving...
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Sun, Nov 2 2008
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Yesterday I posted about Bank of American hiring more research analysts in the area of healthcare investing and and also stated that Blogs are now becoming part of the research process , I have found several who read this blog. This page relates back to a a post about the commitment of the DeCode...
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Tue, Jul 15 2008
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These are the announcements as relates to healthcare. For the complete listing of others follow the link below. Healthcare is probably one of the toughest markets to analyze today as everything happening is a moving target. Even each area has so many links to other areas, sometimes...
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Mon, Jul 14 2008
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Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Insurance, Other Items of Interest, My Commentaries, healthcare, Investors, Medical Devices, Research, Blogging, Managed Care, Blogger, Financial Data