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• Minimally Invasive Surgical Procedure In Clinical Trials to Regulate Blood Pressure and Reduce Risks of Heart Attacks

  
  The Medical Quack — Authority: 491
  This is a minimally invasive procedure done via a catheter.  There is no device implanted.  The company also has a page to find out more about the clinical trials, focusing on patients with resistant hypertension and kidney disease and they are actively recruiting medical centers for participation.  The ...
  17 hours ago

• FDA Says No to Pfizer’s Pain Medication Lyrica for Generalized Anxiety Disorder

  
  The Medical Quack — Authority: 491
  Treatments for anxiety and depression certainly seem to be headliners quite frequently in the news today.  In just writing this blog it seems to be that I tend to see more about those 2 types of drugs than most others.  The FDA said no on this account for Pfizer as the information submitted was not sufficient.   ...
  2 days ago

• Nestle Is the Latest Food Company Questioned By the FDA – What Happened to Prunes?

  
  The Medical Quack — Authority: 491
  It seems any more every package of food you see says something to the effect that “this is good for you” in some fashion or another.  You know I’m getting confused here as perhaps some others may be as well, if all the food is so good for all of us, where’s the bad stuff?  When you stop and think of it we ...
  3 days ago

• Sepracors Lunesta Patent Gets Extension Until 2014

  
  The Medical Quack — Authority: 491
  The butterfly lives on until February 2014 and could get an additional 6 months down the road, pending pediatric study results.  A while back I posted a spoof on the product from Saturday Night Live and you can view here, no wonder they don’t need to spend much on advertising.    BD Sepracor Inc. today ...
  3 days ago

• Online age quiz is Big Pharm’s newest disguise

  
  Healthier Talk — Authority: 136
  Have you ever noticed that online quiz that promise to tell you your “real age?” It’s pretty much everywhere – even Oprah is talking about it. The quiz on this Web site features 150 very detailed questions about your lifestyle, habits and family history. Then, it calculates your “real” age based on your ...
  3 days ago

• Spiriva HandiHaler Gets FDA Approval for COPD Treatment

  
  The Medical Quack — Authority: 491
  It’s official now, COPD is on the list with the other chronic conditions, so no worries about COPD off label prescriptions any longer with this one.  Actually though the other conditions it has been approved for are many times combined with COPD as well.  BD    RIDGEFIELD, Conn. & NEW ...
  4 days ago

• Pfizer pays off hormone-drug victims

  
  Healthier Talk — Authority: 136
  Pfizer continues their track record of paying big bucks for underhanded dealings. Im sure it doesnt matter how much they rack up in damages—as long as theyre allowed to take consumers for everything theyve got, this just isnt going to stop. It hasnt been too good a year for Pfizer—in the spring, they paid up in ...
  6 days ago

• Kunze Farms Recalls Hazelnut Kernels because of Possible Health Risks

  
  Pharmainfo.net — Authority: 172
  Kunze Farms of Dayton, Oregon is recalling 32,950 lbs. of hazelnut kernels because it has the potential to be contaminated with Salmonella, an organism which can cause serious and sometimes fatal infections in young children, frail or elderly people, and others with weakened immune systems. Advertisement: read ...
  1 week ago

• Johnson & Johnson Acquiring Sinusitis Catheter Technology Company - Acclarent

  
  The Medical Quack — Authority: 491
  The venture capital arm of Johnson and Johnson began investing in this company a year ago.  This is the second acquisition this week for J and J. Johnson and Johnson Company, DePuy Orthopedics Acquires Finsbury Orthopaedics from the UK What is also interesting to note is the direction of J and J as a ...
  1 week ago

• Pfizer Talking about Premarin – Women Need Some Numbers Comparing FDA Approved Bio Identical Drugs with Premarin

  
  The Medical Quack — Authority: 491
  If you have kept up with the news of late, you may have read quite a bit about this issue and where the disputes lie.  It all goes back to the womens health initiative and the fact that ghostwriting was used to promote the drug.  Under the related reading section below I have a few posts from this blog. ...
  1 week ago

• Cleviprex (clevidipine butyrate): Recall

  
  Pharmainfo.net — Authority: 172
  Presence of particulate matter which could potentially reduce blood flow in capillaries, cause mechanical damage to some tissues, or initiate acute or chronic inflammatory reactions. Advertisement: read more
  1 week ago

• Killer Cancer Code Cracked in the UK – Lung and Skin Cancer

  
  The Medical Quack — Authority: 491
  Now that the code has been “cracked” this will lead to the creation of drugs that will be able to target these areas, and maybe even a cure.  This is truly big news as the 2 of the most deadly types of cancer have been identified for targeting.  A blood test will be able to help diagnose in time. The key here ...
  1 week ago

• Wound Management Company Gets FDA Approval for SilverStream(TM) Product – Prescription and Over the Counter Products

  
  The Medical Quack — Authority: 491
  This is good news and I would think diabetics with wounds that will not heal or are very slow in healing would benefit from this technology.  Basically the product provides a continuous flow of the cleaning solution to remove bacteria and speeds up the healing process instead of manually cleaning wounds.  Of ...
  1 week ago

• FDA Announces New Chief Counsel – Ralph S. Tyler

  
  FDA Law Blog — Authority: 472
  By Kurt R. Karst –       Earlier today, FDA Commissioner Dr. Margaret Hamburg announced in an Agency-wide e-mail that Ralph S. Tyler has been appointed to serve as FDA’s Chief Counsel.  Mr. Tyler, who is currently serving as Insurance Commissioner of the State of Maryland, will officially take the ...
  1 week ago

• Johnson and Johnson Company, DePuy Orthopedics Acquires Finsbury Orthopaedics from the UK

  
  The Medical Quack — Authority: 491
  The competition in the hip and knee business is about to get a little smaller with this acquisition by Johnson and Johnson.  In looking at both pages there’s seems to be a lot of product to merge together and appears to make the DePuy line a bit larger.  From the website: “Finsbury has always been ...
  1 week ago

• Pfizer Using New Algorithmic Formulas Loaded On Tablet PCs To Track Pills – Sample Distribution

  
  The Medical Quack — Authority: 491
  I think this is actually a very good thing.   In my running around and talking with drug representatives about how they use their tablets, I have yet to find one that can figure out that it’s good for taking notes and other uses outside just the compliance software loaded for distribution of samples.  The ...
  1 week ago

• Pfizer Plans to Appeal Product Liability Cases Relative to Premarin and Prempro

  
  The Medical Quack — Authority: 491
  Now that Wyeth has be acquired by Pfizer, so goes the legal cases too, part of the deal.  Anyway, I have done a bit of writing on the blog relating back to the Women’s Health Initiative and the ghost writing that was used relative to marketing the drug.  Premarin/Prempro Ghostwriting – The Judge ...
  2 weeks ago

• CDC Report on H1N1 – 10,000 People Died and 47 Million Were Infected with the Virus

  
  The Medical Quack — Authority: 491
  These I think are larger numbers than originally anticipated.  We may read in our local communities of people who had a lethal case and those who passed away, but adding all of these up certainly leads us to some staggering numbers for the H1N1 (Swine) flu.   BD U.S. health officials on Thursday ...
  2 weeks ago

• Hospitals Need To Replace The Steris System Endoscope Sterilizer in 6 Months – FDA Mandate

  
  The Medical Quack — Authority: 491
  Just a few days ago I made the comment relative to budgets and said ask a hospital CEO what it is like to budget for things are exist tomorrow that are not here today, well this is pretty close, as an unexpected expense.  The safety and effectiveness of the sterilizer can’t be verified, so out they go and ...
  2 weeks ago

• When Generic Drugs Are Good Enough

  
  The Medical Quack — Authority: 491
  This is a guest post from Shannon Wills and I welcome her post to the Medical Quack today as she has some information to add regarding generic drugs.  Be sure to visit her links at the end of the post for more information.  BD  Their chemical compositions are similar and they are supposed to work just as ...
  2 weeks ago

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