http://www.thehealthcareblog.com/the_health_care_blog/ ar 2009-11-23T01:36:00-08:00 " /> " /> " /> " /> " /> " /> " /> " /> " /> " /> " /> " /> " /> " /> " /> " /> " /> " /> " /> " /> " /> " /> " /> " /> " /> http://www.thehealthcareblog.com/the_health_care_blog/2009/11/conspiracy-theory-friday.html By Matthew Holt Two fun things—First, Mark Leavitt says he’s quitting CCHIT in March. He says that he’ll be 60 then and wants to go do other stuff. Of course the cynics among you will say that he’s had enough... Electronic Medical Records Health 2.0 HITECH Pharma Matthew 2009-11-13T11:09:22-08:00 http://www.thehealthcareblog.com/the_health_care_blog/2009/08/donald-light-sticks-it-to-phrma-and-tauzin-again.html By Matthew Holt Over the years PhRMA must be getting pretty sick of Univ of Medicine and Denistry of New Jersey Professor Donald Light. He’s made a cottage industry of pissing on the commonly-trumpeted propaganda that only American drug research... International Pharma Matthew 2009-08-26T01:19:00-07:00 http://www.thehealthcareblog.com/the_health_care_blog/2009/07/the-other-michael-jackson-mega-mix.html By Matthew Holt Never ones to be shy with an interesting view into celebrity pharmacology (and truth be told responding to a little tickle from me) the inventive folks at PharmaSurveyor have added Michael Jackson to their celebrity drug cocktail... Health 2.0 Pharma pharmaceuticals Technology Web/Tech Matthew 2009-07-06T02:00:00-07:00 http://www.thehealthcareblog.com/the_health_care_blog/2009/03/my-forecast-a-sad-conclusion-to-the-health-care-bubble.html Brian Klepper and David Kibbe have written a terrific piece on how and why health care is in a handbasket and wondering where it’s going. But as we ex-futurists know, there’s lots of luck required to make a good forecast.... Health Plans Matthew Holt Pharma Policy Policy/Politics Matthew 2009-03-12T02:41:00-07:00 http://www.thehealthcareblog.com/the_health_care_blog/2009/01/should-the-fda.html By Matthew Holt Over at DiabetesMine #1 health blogger Amy Tenderich has very important post. She and several fellow travelers are appealing to the FDA to strike a balance between safety and progress in allowing new diabetes treatments. The FDA... e-patients FDA Health 2.0 Patient Safety Pharma pharmaceuticals Matthew 2009-01-09T00:18:00-08:00 http://www.thehealthcareblog.com/the_health_care_blog/2009/01/a-me-too-strate.html By DAVID E. WILLIAMS AstraZeneca appears set to follow Merck into the market for “bio-similars.” (See AstraZeneca may join generic rush.) Congress and the media tend to portray biosimilars are analogous to generic chemistry-based pharmaceuticals, and therefore believe that they... David E. Williams Pharma Matthew 2009-01-04T19:00:00-08:00 http://www.thehealthcareblog.com/the_health_care_blog/2008/12/weighing-in-on.html By MERRILL GOOZNER Patient advocacy groups, most of them drug industry-funded, have asked President-elect Barack Obama to appoint a Food and Drug Administration commissioner who won't cave in to pressure from lawmakers or the news media, according to the Wall... Pharma Matthew 2008-12-21T10:23:00-08:00 http://www.thehealthcareblog.com/the_health_care_blog/2008/12/health-care-pro.html By John Mack It seems like everyone in the Pharma Blogosphere and the press is recommending who president-elect Barack Obama should nominate as the new FDA Commissioner to replace Dr. Andrew von Eschenbach. A few weeks ago, I created the... FDA Pharma Matthew 2008-12-10T04:20:00-08:00 http://www.thehealthcareblog.com/the_health_care_blog/2008/11/big-pharma-has.html By David Williams Big pharma has big problems. The root cause is a lack of research and development productivity, which means a dearth of new products to make up for looming patent expirations. Something near half of big pharma’s revenues... Economics Pharma Matthew 2008-11-19T01:37:00-08:00 http://www.thehealthcareblog.com/the_health_care_blog/2008/10/bad-light-falls.html By Sarah Arnquist Update: The Harvard Health Policy Review site is back up with an apology and disclaimer for not seeking a response from the JHE editors. A Harvard Health Policy Review article that details two researchers' account of unethical... Pharma Policy Matthew 2008-10-21T01:20:00-07:00 http://www.thehealthcareblog.com/the_health_care_blog/2008/08/stanford-med-sc.html By Sarah Arnquist Stanford University's medical school announced this week new restrictions on educational contributions by drug and medical device companies, which turn out to be among the strictest in the nation. The rules are an effort to limit industry... Medical Devices Pharma Sarah Arnquist The Industry Matthew 2008-08-28T00:46:00-07:00 http://www.thehealthcareblog.com/the_health_care_blog/2008/08/identified-bull.html By Matthew Holt Such a pity that the NY Times has been so beaten up by the commies amongst us that it actually now feels that it has to point out where Peter Pitts and Janet Trautwein get their money.... Hillary Clinton Matthew Holt Pharma Policy Policy/Politics Matthew 2008-08-15T08:11:00-07:00 http://www.thehealthcareblog.com/the_health_care_blog/2008/08/viagra-prescrib.html By Matthew Holt Really? Can this be true? Well so says a bunch of academics writing in the Mayo Clinic’s journal. They looked at records of questionnaires taken and prescribing decisions made by a licensed, regulated online pharmacy called KwikMed... Consumers e-patients Health 2.0 Pharma pharmaceuticals Technology Matthew 2008-08-08T01:57:00-07:00 http://www.thehealthcareblog.com/the_health_care_blog/2008/06/drug-advertisem.html By Sean Neill Sean Neill is a South African-born, British-trained anesthesiologist, who recently relocated to Midwestern USA. He blogs regularly at OnMedica about his cross-cultural experience, frequently pointing out oddities of American health care. Watching television in America takes some... Consumers International Pharma The Industry Matthew 2008-06-30T03:36:00-07:00 http://www.thehealthcareblog.com/the_health_care_blog/2008/03/happy-birthday.html By Jane Sarasohn-Kahn It's the drug that raised the profile of medicine in popular culture. It's been hawked by a prominent politician and has been the butt of jokes on late-night TV. It's Viagara, and it's turning 10 today. The... Pharma Matthew 2008-03-27T05:21:33-07:00 http://www.thehealthcareblog.com/the_health_care_blog/2008/03/tech-drugs-tech.html To finish off the last but not least of my HIMSS interviews, here are two companies that both announced being part of the Google ecosystem on the Thursday of HIMSS. One is well known and a leader in ePrescribing and... Pharma Podcasts Technology Matthew 2008-03-02T23:46:00-08:00 http://www.thehealthcareblog.com/the_health_care_blog/2008/02/physicians-grou.html In 1937 marijuana was banned by Congress. The only question asked was, "what's the position of the American Medical Association?". It actually was in favor of keeping marijuana legal for medical purposes. But the response given to Congress by whoever... Pharma Physicians Matthew 2008-02-19T00:15:00-08:00 http://www.thehealthcareblog.com/the_health_care_blog/2008/02/pharma-the-stat.html Yesterday the THCB hit meter went off the charts. not sadly because of some new genius posting on THCB, but because the WSJ has this article about Lipitor causing memory loss and Google searches are bring up an article from... Pharma Matthew 2008-02-14T06:20:00-08:00 http://www.thehealthcareblog.com/the_health_care_blog/2008/02/pharma-finally.html Yup, they really are cashing in on the Placebo Effect. Pharma Matthew 2008-02-13T10:21:07-08:00 http://www.thehealthcareblog.com/the_health_care_blog/2008/02/pharma-reprief.html In a story titled somewhat cryptically Medicare chief stands by anemia move (do they mean he’s trying to become anemic?) Reuters reports that CMS is not backing down from its decision to radically cut payments for anti-anemia drugs for chemotherapy... Pharma Matthew 2008-02-08T14:35:54-08:00 http://www.thehealthcareblog.com/the_health_care_blog/2008/02/pharma-stunt-do.html I’m sure (well I’m not sure but I’ll cheerfully and casually postulate) to keep you all amused on a Friday) that there are many possible overlooked problems with Lipitor and the statins. I’ve heard of severe muscle pain, even amnesia.... Pharma Matthew 2008-02-08T12:32:00-08:00 http://www.thehealthcareblog.com/the_health_care_blog/2008/02/policypharma-de.html Just in case you needed to be reminded that the DEA is a refuge of evil scumbags and needs to be abolished, here's another exhibit (from the good people at DRCNet): Federal agents arrested Dr. Stephen Schneider, operator of the... Pharma Policy Matthew 2008-02-01T07:52:49-08:00 http://www.thehealthcareblog.com/the_health_care_blog/2008/01/pharmatech-drug.html I'm up over at the Health 2.0 Blog talking about my favorite drug interaction checker. Meanwhile if you (yes, that means you) want to write on the Health 2.0 Blog, please email me and let me know. Health 2.0 Pharma Technology Matthew 2008-01-17T15:55:11-08:00 http://www.thehealthcareblog.com/the_health_care_blog/2008/01/pharma-talking.html Schering Plough is coming under multo criticism the last two days for sitting on data for up to a year that shows that the anti-cholesterol drug Zetia, when combined with Merk’s Zocor in the combo drug Vytorin, not only didn’t... Pharma Matthew 2008-01-16T09:18:16-08:00 http://www.thehealthcareblog.com/the_health_care_blog/2007/12/blogs-diabetes.html Our friend and colleague Amy Tenderich has a just excellent Diabetes Year in Review up at DiabetesMine. It covers Health 2.0 (of course) but also drugs devices, design, and the growth of people with diabetes as a social force. Amy... Consumers Health 2.0 Pharma Matthew 2007-12-18T01:05:00-08:00