FDA Approves Roche/Genentech Drug Erivedge to Treat Advanced Skin Cancer Not Treatable with Surgery
Basal cell carcinoma is rarely fatal and in many cases surgery is the cure but in some patients is can spread beyond the skin area in to other areas of…
Patient Safety Toolkits from AHRQ
The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) has sets of toolkits designed to help health care institutions and clinicians provide—and consumers receive—safe, quality health care at various points in…
Social Media and Technology in Health Care: ePharma Summit Goes Beyond Pharma
Patients and health care consumers are engaged in their health and the internet has allowed them to be empowered in their health care. Patients and health care consumers…
Meditate Your Way to Longer Telomeres; Keep Aging at Bay?
As part of Popper and Company’s ongoing effort to scan the health care universe and share innovative ideas and solutions with you, the 2009 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine…
Brain Strengthening iPhone Games for Techie Grandmas and Grandpas
Just because you're a senior doesn't mean that you aren't hip—you have a shiny iPhone, you know what's "in." But while it's great that your sense of style as remained…
Why a Banker is Good for the Global Fund
For a long time, the Global Fund focused on disbursing money, and disbursing as quickly as possible. The philosophy was something like: move the money and the recipient knows what…
State of Virginia Attaches Amendment to Bill Requiring Women to Have an Ultrasound Before an Abortion That Requires Men to Have A Rectal Exam Before Obtaining A Prescription For Erectile Dysfunction Drugs
Here we are back to the old “default” topic of the digital illiterates, abortions and this is pretty funny as it mocks the ridiculousness of a bill requiring an ultrasound. …
How Your Genes Will Drive Personalized Medicine
This month I was honored to be the master of ceremonies at the Personalized Medicine World Conference in Silicon Valley, California. for the second time. About 850 scientists, venture capitalists…
FDA Fired Device Whistleblowers
The Food and Drug Administration fired six device division reviewers after they complained to Congressional staffers that the agency was approving unsafe or inadequate medical devices. The charge? Leaking confidential…
