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• A Footnote on Neratinib and Russian Livers

  
  The Assertive Cancer Patient — Authority: 131
  My favorite medical librarian sent me the link to a clinical trial that Wyeth is doing (or may have completed) on liver damage with neratinib.  The thing that caught my eye is that the trial was conducted in RUSSIA. And one group of study participants (patients) were people with chronic liver disease and the other ...
  4 days ago

• Researching Neratinib

  
  The Assertive Cancer Patient — Authority: 131
  I have an appointment with Dr. Lee this afternoon to discuss neratinib further. He is just back from the breast oncology meeting in San Antonio, and he should have information to share about neratinib from that meeting.  Ive spent the morning reading through some of the info that readers had forwarded to me, and I ...
  4 days ago

• Canadian drugs a possibility after all?

  
  The Political Carnival — Authority: 652
  By GottaLaff Bob Cesca brings us this glimmer. Ill tease, you pop over to Bobs house: Susie Madrak has some great news on the Canadian reimportation issue -- directly from the White House. Whats that strange new feeling? Are the corners of my mouth starting to turn upwards?
  1 week ago

• Friday’s Top Options Alert: Bristol-Myers & Mead Johnson (BMY, MJN)

  
  24/7 Wall St. — Authority: 712
  Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. (NYSE: BMY) has been a real pest in the world of analyzing options trading activity.  There has been a perpetual open interest alert with a monster contract volume in the DEC-2009 $30 CALLS and DEC-2009 $30 PUTS.  The culprit is tied to the company splitting off its approximately 83% ...
  1 week ago

• President Obama writes a new health reform prescription

  
  HealthPoint PA — Authority: 140
  Washington Post  reports: On the campaign trail, Barack Obama vowed to take on the drug industry by allowing Americans to import cheaper prescription medicine. “We’ll tell the pharmaceutical companies ‘thanks, but no, thanks’ for the overpriced drugs — drugs that cost twice as much here as they do in ...
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• Claims in drug advertising are attracting new scrutiny

  
  HealthPoint PA — Authority: 140
  Philadelphia Inq report: WASHINGTON - The advertisement for an athlete’s foot drug depicted attacks on a giant fungus alongside the words Crush , Kill and Destroy in bold type. But after looking at clinical studies related to the drug, the Food and Drug Administration in August sent a letter to the ...
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• Ask Dr. H: No sugar alcohol in these sweeteners

  
  HealthPoint PA — Authority: 140
  Philadelphia Inq reports: Medical Columnist Question: In products that use Equal/Nutrasweet as their sweetener, there is a sugar alcohol content. What other sugar substitutes have sugar alcohol amounts? Answer: No, that’s not quite right. Equal/Nutrasweet is a protein-derived sugar, and has no sugar alcohol ...
  1 week ago

• Is the FDA Protecting Our Food and Drugs?

  
  fitnessROCKS.org — Authority: 106
  You may not know it, but most of the medications you might take, either prescribed, or over-the-counter, are made in other countries by factories that submitted the lowest bid.  This makes higher profits for the drug companies doing the “outsourcing,” but is it good for you? I interviewed William Hubbard, a ...
  1 week ago

• All things being equal

  
  The *Angriest* Pharmacist — Authority: 404
  Prereading for this post:   Walgreens has POWER (80 COMMENTS!) I was going through some server logs and discovered something. This tid bit of information was shocking to me. The above post/link was and is being heavily monitored by Walgreens themselves. As you know, the bottom of each post I type has two links ...
  1 week ago

• The Unusual Suspects (ADBE, BBY, NKE, ORCL, RIMM, AMZN, AXA, BMY, MJN, OSIP, UUP, V, WFC)

  
  24/7 Wall St. — Authority: 712
  The second half of December is supposed to be when trading volume starts slowing down.  That does not look to be the case for this coming week, and this list of the unusual suspects is packed with many major stocks and events.  We actually have a mini-version of earnings season with companies like Adobe Systems ...
  1 week ago

• QD: News Every Day--amendments piling up in the Senate

  
  ACP Internist — Authority: 128
  ACP Internists daily digest of news and events continues with the piling amendments being considered for health care reform, and how they hinge on the pharma companies blessings. Health care reform Amendments continue to crop up during the Senates debate on health care reform: --An amendment that would allow ...
  2 weeks ago

• Bowing to the drug industry

  
  The Political Carnival — Authority: 652
  By GottaLaff Earlier, Paddy posted a link to this story: Washington Times: Clash over re-import of drugs stalls health bill The health care debate ground to a halt Thursday over a squabble among Democrats that could threaten the deal President Obama struck with pharmaceutical companies to earn their ...
  2 weeks ago

• Investment Bank Watchdog Back On The Prowl

  
  Understanding Government — Authority: 142
  After a pleasant vacation , the Securities and Exchange Commission is back to investigating Wall Street. The Wall Street Journal’s Jenny Strasburg and Kara Scannell report on a slew of mergers and acquisitions that the SEC is investigating for insider trading. Most of these transactions involve drug companies, ...
  2 weeks ago

• QD: News Every Day--options for the public option

  
  ACP Internist — Authority: 128
  ACP Internists daily digest of news and events continues with options for the public option, as well as how drugmakers plan to curb opioid abuse. (Theyre asking doctors.) Health care reform Factions within the Senate are discussing a privately-offered public plan . Its not another government oxymoron, either. ...
  2 weeks ago

• Drugmakers’ support for health overhaul tested

  
  HealthPoint PA — Authority: 140
  Philadelphia Inq reports: ALAN FRAM The Associated Press WASHINGTON - The pharmaceutical industry may have to cough up more than the $80 billion it agreed to contribute to President Barack Obama’s health overhaul effort, reflecting pressure from Democrats and their supporters for more money to cover older and ...
  2 weeks ago

• Value Track: Revisiting Stocks The Rally Left Behind (ABT, MO, AWK, BKC, ENER, GENZ, KR, ORB, WMT, LEAP, PCS)

  
  24/7 Wall St. — Authority: 712
  It was early in October before earnings season kicked off into full thrust when we first reviewed many large or actively traded stocks which had not participated in the stock market rally of 2009.  At the time, the DJIA was up 12.75% for the year, and the S&P 500 Index was up more than 19%; as [...] [[ This is ...
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• Moral Values or Ignorance?

  
  Regaining the Center — Authority: 124
  In T R Reid’s book “The Healing of America”, very sobering facts are revealed that gives one great pause over the heart and soul of America. We all carrying notions as well as personal antidotes of why America is the greatest Country in the world, bar none. How then can T R Reid come along and suddenly cast a ...
  3 weeks ago

• Reynolds: Smoking to Smoking Cessation (RAI, GSK)

  
  24/7 Wall St. — Authority: 712
  Reynolds American Inc. (NYSE: RAI) has an interesting approach in M&A today.  The deal is a tiny merger valued at $44 million when you consider that Reynolds has almost a $15 billion market cap, but this is a potential game-changer in tobacco.  The company is acquiring all outstanding shares of the Swedish-based ...
  3 weeks ago

• Sanofi Making Phone Calls Today to Lay Off Drug Reps

  
  The Medical Quack — Authority: 515
  Is this “Black Monday” for many drug reps?  I am guessing we will hear later as to how many reps actually lost their jobs at Sanofi.  As you can read below there was a preview of this event just before Thanksgiving and at least the news didn’t ruin the holiday, or should I say this holiday as Christmas and New ...
  3 weeks ago

• Comprehensive health insurance is on the way Posted by Ed Koch

  
  The Jerusalem Post BlogCentral — Authority: 140
  The Democrats have pulled off a great victory. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is often disparaged by the media when compared to House Speaker Nancy Pelosis effectiveness. But he was able to line up 58 Democratic senators, plus independents Joe Lieberman and Bernie Sanders, so that the first obstacle to the Senates ...
  4 weeks ago

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