One more acquisition in the news, and a fairly large announcement at that. Just one more indication of the interest and investments from Pharma expanding beyond just drugs and pursuing biotech companies with state of the art technologies for healthcare, this one in the surgical products area. ...
Health information is certainly becoming one competitive field, who has the best and most accurate information? The possibilities just keep on growing and I’m sure there will be more on the way until we get one dashboard eventually that may bring the mining down to perhaps one application for the...
The product was originally approved here in the US, but when a change in manufacturing processes was made, it has not been approved with being resubmitted to the FDA. Interesting how a company goes about improvements to a product, and then gets rejected. Half of the 13,000 devices sold...
Posted to
The Medical Quack .... by Barbara Duck
on 10-16-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Pharma/FDA News, Surgery, Medical Devices, software, Johnson and Johnson, Recalls, Pain, hospital equipment
Interesting video from Microsoft, Johnson and Johnson and the Discovery Channel on how health care will be in the not too distant future. I tripped out a bit on the toothbrush taking my pulse here, but as the video states, these are all thing either here now or in development. BD ...
Posted to
The Medical Quack .... by Barbara Duck
on 08-27-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Pharma/FDA News, Other Items of Interest, Microsoft/Windows News, healthcare, microsoft, Johnson and Johnson
Well back to the drawing board to gather up some additional data. We live in a world of data today, overloaded data for that matter, and decisions just are not as simple as they used to be. With all the additional side effects coming to light the FDA appears to be taking the same stance as...
You Tube as we all know is no longer just entertainment, there’s many good sites for good educational purposes too, such as the FDA Channel and one other new Channel from Johnson and Johnson. So now physician have another way of reaching patients with referring health educational material for...
Posted to
The Medical Quack .... by Barbara Duck
on 07-17-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Pharma/FDA News, My Commentaries, Video, Education, FDA, YouTube, Johnson and Johnson, J & J, Tivo