In the Pipeline (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago
Or perhaps one should wait until spring - it's the wrong season for high-nitrogen mixtures to be applied: Speaking at the Reuters Health Summit on Wednesday, Kindler said Pfizer has melded and reshaped its research and development facilities within 20 days of buying Wyeth on October 15. With previous huge mergers, he said, that process had taken "literally years." . . .Swift reorganization...
In the Pipeline (Free subscription) | 8 hours ago
In an attempt to get the story out to a wider audience, I have a piece up at The Atlantic 's Business site on the Pfizer layoffs, the J&J layoffs, and what's happening to the traditional expectations for the way research is done. This is going to be a long process, though, and I keep wondering if we're still just in the early parts of it. . .
Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago
by Kairol Rosenthal I am a young adult cancer patient who waited five and a half hours for the H1N1 vaccination along with 1200 other Chicagoans in a city college hallway. I do not have the trained eye of a public health analyst, yet it was easy to spy the glaring flaws that occurred in [...] Posted at KevinMD.com . Stay updated and subscribe , follow me on Twitter , or connect on Facebook . Related...
Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog (Free subscription) | 7 hours ago
Originally published in HCPLive.com by Victor G. Dostrow, MD Dementia is a terminal illness. However, people with advanced dementias often languish in skilled nursing facilities, far from the ministrations of specialists. And, with reasonable luck, they have directives that specify that they are not to be taken to the hospital in the event of a respiratory arrest. [...] Posted at KevinMD.com . Stay...
In the Pipeline (Free subscription) | 7 hours ago
With the waves of layoffs going on, and all the nasty structural changes we're seeing in this business, it's easy to start feeling a toxic combination of fear and despair. And while I understand that, I'm going to try to briefly argue against it. (1) I think that, in the years to come, that people are most definitely going to need medicines. And by that, I mean new ones, because there are a lot of...
Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog (Free subscription) | 9 hours ago
Originally published in MedPage Today by Emily P. Walker, MedPage Today Washington Correspondent After a controversial amendment to restrict abortion was approved as part of the House healthcare bill over the weekend, senators are grappling with the abortion language in their legislation. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.), who personally opposes abortion, said the issue was being [...] Posted...
In the Pipeline (Free subscription) | 12 hours ago
A reader who's (unfortunately) in a position to know the details sends along some numbers on Pfizer's chemistry shakeout. According to his figures, Pfizer (pre-Wyeth merger) had about 900 chemists. The Wyeth deal brought in about 350, but no one expected the merged department to stay at 1250 - instead, the guess was that the new chemistry staff would be in the 1000 range, which is what I would have...
Furious Seasons (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago
The office of Utah's Attorney General Mark Shurtleff today announced that it had recently settled its illegal off-label marketing of Zyprexa claims with Eli Lilly for $24 million. Said Shurtleff's office in a press release: "It is a crime for...
Furious Seasons (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago
Back in March, I wrote about a Chicago psychiatrist, Michael Reinstein, who was bugging AstraZeneca for money because he was such a heavy prescriber of Seroquel and who also authored a very dubious study asserting that Seroquel caused patients to...
Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog (Free subscription) | 13 hours ago
There’s something strangely disturbing about the anatomical imagining of cute Hello Kitty’s insides. (via Street Anatomy and Dr. Romanelli) Posted at KevinMD.com. Stay updated and subscribe, follow me on Twitter, or connect on Facebook. Related posts:Anatomy on the streetGray’s Anatomy shot down"Morbidly cute"Would you buy head shaped bread'Contextual advertising and heart...
The Last Psychiatrist (Free subscription) | 10 hours ago
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Six Until Me. (Free subscription) | 10 hours ago
Oh, the diabetes interwebs have some things to share ... so here's a few I wanted to make sure I passed on to you guys.Over the weekend, I saw a sneak peek of the final Making Sense of Diabetes video,...
Diabetes Mine (Free subscription) | 12 hours ago
Here’s a new theme idea for National Diabetes Awareness Month: making peace with your illness. For those of us who already have diabetes, expanded public awareness is nice to have, but doesn’t necessarily change anything. This train of thought brought me back to my oldest daughter’s little challenge a few years ago… kids are wonderful [...]
WebMD (Free subscription) | 7 hours ago
A mini-course in meditation may be all it takes to assist in pain management, a study shows.
Managed Care Matters (Free subscription) | 12 hours ago
Because that's what it is going to 'cost' to replace the current Medicare physician reimbursement scheme with something else. And make no mistake, as Trudy Lieberman of the Columbia Journalism Review points out, most of the nation's physicians are adamant...
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