Genzyme's Renagel / Renvela Franchise: Investors Would Be Wise to Reevaluate
Blog | seekingalpha.com | 8 hours 4 minutes ago
This is a follow up to my previous post regarding the news that development of Genzymes (<a href="http://seekingalpha.com/symbol/genz" title="More opinion and analysis of
Can Drug & Device Makers Innovate Themselves to Extinction? (at The Wall Street Journal Online)
Blog | blogs.wsj.com | 23 hours 19 minutes ago
When existing treatments are very good, it's hard to find new therapies that are better.
Caplan: Pay Up for Quality Care, Or Else
Blog | blog.bioethics.net | Nov 23, 2009
The trent toward concierge medicine is not a good thing, says Art Caplan, today on MSNBC.com. Why not just draw a big bright yellow line across the street that indicates that "the haves" can get quality care over here and...
http://blog.bioethics.net/2009/11/caplan-pay-up-for-quality-care-or-else/
Sage Advice On Vytorin (at Forbes.com)
Blog | blogs.forbes.com | Nov 23, 2009
His advice for other doctors: Don't prescribe Zetia so often, but don't vilify it either. "Based on the evidence we had I never could understand why so many people were put on it," says Hennekens.
http://blogs.forbes.com/sciencebizblog/2009/11/sage-advice-on-vytorin/?partner=yahootix
New lethal injection policies put Ohio at center of legal and ethical debate over executions
Blog | blog.cleveland.com | Nov 23, 2009
Death row inmates and advocates on both sides of the capital punishment debate across the country have had their eyes on Ohio since the recent announcement that this state will pioneer the use of a single drug to execute inmates.
http://blog.cleveland.com/metro/2009/11/new_lethal_injection_policies.html
Has a new day dawned for medicinal cannabis?
Blog | www.genengnews.com | Nov 23, 2009
Marijuana. It’s a small word that generates a large reaction (for better or for worse). People are polarized on the topic. Yes, there is a definite social stigma surrounding this infamous, leafy pl
Irish Medical Times | The Irish Medical Times Blog | Swine flu update: Total infections down from
Blog | www.IMT.ie | Nov 20, 2009
About 4 per cent of the Irish population has now been infected with the H1N1 virus, said Dr Darina O’Flanagan, Director of Health Protection Surveillance Centre.
http://www.IMT.ie/blogs/irish-Medical-Times-Blog/2009/11/swine-flu-update-total-infecti.html
Muscular monkeys prompt sports doping fears - Short Sharp Science
Blog | www.newscientist.com | Nov 11, 2009
Science Blog: In the new study, Janaiah Kota and colleagues at Nationwide Children's Hospital in Columbus, Ohio, used gene therapy to add extra copies of the follistatin gene into the leg muscles of monkeys. Follistatin has been previously shown in mice to block myostatin, a protein that decreases
http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/shortsharpscience/2009/11/muscular-monkeys-prompt-sports.html
Readers Ask: Ulcers
Blog | consults.blogs.nytimes.com | Nov 5, 2009
Ingfei Chen, a contributor to The New York Times, writes about “The New Face of Ulcer Disease,” a problem that remains a life-threatening hazard for millions around the world:
http://consults.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/11/05/readers-ask-peptic-ulcer-disease/?partner=rss&emc=rss
Obese? Your Doctor May Have Less Respect For You
Blog | weblogs.baltimoresun.com | Oct 28, 2009
Anyone who has struggled with their weight knows what it's like to be on the receiving end of fat jokes. Despite a national obesity epidemic, our society isn't particularly sensitive to overweight people. Doctors included.
http://weblogs.baltimoresun.com/health/2009/10/physicians_have_less_respect_f.html
