FDA Warning Letter Highlights Disconnect Between Regulator and Biotech Industry
A surprise at this year’s Thanksgiving dinner was that a majority of my friends (who do not work in biopharma) at the dinner table heard about the FDA warning letter…
Will ObamaCare Finally Cause American Seniors to Turn Against Government Health Care?
Most Americans are now aware of the disastrous rollout of ObamaCare health-insurance exchanges for privately insured people. However, this has sidelined discussion of the pain that ObamaCare is inflicting on Medicare…
RSNA 2013: Siemens’ Artis One – An Answer for Life
Perhaps due to the 510(k) pending regulatory status -- we always want what we cannot immediately have -- the Artis One Angiography System attracted a lot of attention at the…
7 Counterintuitive Tips: Creating Content That Actually Means Something
The overwhelming deluge of information spewing from the Internet—on any and every imaginable topic—implies that “more is better.” For proof, look no further than the most innocuous Google search. Type…
Selling Insurance Across State Lines
It's Already Done – Sort of It's Already Done – Sort of Most insurance companies are multi-state, but have “franchises” that are state corporations. These are necessary because different states…
Generic Adderall XR to Be Sold in 2016 Under Agreement Struck Between Shire and Sandoz
Adderall XR producer Shire has agreed to supply an authorized generic version of the attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) drug to Sandoz Inc., the generic division of Novartis.
RSNA 2013: Obamacare and Manufacturers – A Siemens Perspective
Yesterday ... and all the website troubles have been blown away. Well, perhaps, and perhaps the long-awaited fix is insufficient to meet consumer demand. The Affordable Care Act (ACA), aka…
RSNA 2013: Advancing Towards an HIV Cure?
Can radioimmunotherapy (RIT) be effective in helping to find a cure for the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)? Researchers have used RIT to destroy remaining HIV-infected cells in the blood samples…
BioPharma Beat: 23andMe – Now What?
By now everyone has heard of the very pointed and frustration-toned warning letter that 23andMe received from the F.D.A., which ordered the company to immediately stop selling and marketing their…
Aggressive New HIV Strain In West Africa Develops Into AIDS More Rapidly
Over 60 epidemic strains of HIV-1 exist in the world, so when researchers discovered a new one in West Africa, the only alarm bell that sounded was the fact that…
