Commercial Speech Trumps Privacy When It Comes to Drug Marketing
Yesterday, the Supreme Court ruled 6-3 that states can’t pass laws like one in Vermont that prevent drug companies from gaining access to the prescribing records of physicians. Pharmaceutical firms use…
Push Accelerates for Artificial Pancreas for Type 1 Diabetes
By recently releasing guidelines for premarket approval and investigation device exemption of "artificial pancreas" devices, the FDA set the stage for approval of these systems in the management of type…
Pharma Tapping into the Power of Social Media
Recently quoted in PharmaVOICE in the May 2011 edition, I presented my thoughts on the significance of the pharmaceutical industry tapping into patient communities through social networks and the importance…
Can Social Media Save Lives?
This provocative title of a webinar to be held next week is part of the growing optimism about the potential for social media in the process of health care. Some recent examples…
PatientKeeper CEO Paul Brient on Accountable Care Organizations (Transcript))
This is the transcript of my recent podcast interview with PatientKeeper CEO Paul Brient. David Williams: This is David Williams, co-founder of MedPharma Partners and author of the Health Business…
Nurses Demonstrate on Wall Street
This is not what you typically see on Wall Street but it was the sight of a demonstration of nurses calling for fair ethics and the return of good healthcare…
In-Home Care Goes High Tech
The lab includes a “model home” to test new gadgets. One is a special bed laced with sensors to assess breathing patterns, heart rate and general sleep quality. If someone…
Loss Of Health Insurance and Medications Cited as Potential Motive For Shootings
I am sure there will be a lot more information to follow on this story but the article suggests that the shooter’s wife took a lot of pills and for…
F.D.A. Approves Stem Cell Therapy to Reduce Facial Wrinkles
Stem cell research is hot, no matter which way you look at it and there are a number of companies who market stem cell products to help with the anti-aging…
Government as Doctor
U.S. government doctors once thought it was fine to experiment on disabled people and prison inmates. Such experiments included giving hepatitis to mental patients in Connecticut, squirting a pandemic flu…
