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 . This is why it is so popular as at created the...
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on 11-16-2008
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
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 difference and how tablets work while working, and...
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 open source and I hope they send the software over...
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on 07-24-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, My Commentaries, techonology, Medical Records, medicare, FDA, HIPAA, MIT, Anonymize
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 column at the blog. The device will be going...
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, this could be really great for members of Congress...
A new book out discussing the drug business in the US, Money Talks. Side Effects which was also written by Bass looks at the day to day life of a pharmaceutical sales representative. Public Health or profit seems to be the theme and what the investigations uncover. Big Pharma is much...
They now have 70 subscribers, one of the new subscribers was me this morning. At least they are getting there even though they have had an account since September 6th of last year. This is amazing that the the Channel exists out there, and yet very few are tuned in. I have done...
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on 07-01-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Other Items of Interest, My Commentaries, Medical Devices, Pharma, Prescriptions, FDA, YouTube