I read this very stirring story yesterday in the Wall Street Journal (subscription may be required). Be sure to click the link to the video at the end of the story. Well worth the next 5 minutes of …
Upping the Statin Quo
Two news releases this morning on good effects of statins: Continued Statin use Boosts Post-Stroke Outcomes - Hospitalized stroke patients who stop taking their cholesterol-lowering statin drugs -- …
Pharma News 8_24
Novartis gets approval for Reclast, a once-per-year osteoporosis treatment. That's a game-changer - very cool advance that should lead to far better patient compliance. A long-ish article on Wyeth's …
Invading the Sacred?
The LA Times has been running a series of articles on the influence of drug companies on doctors. Whatever the merits of the articles may be, I found the opening of one of them to be particularly …
Reps, Lawyers, Bureaucrats – What’s the Biggest Problem?
Ed Silverman over at Pharmalot wrote up a quick post on the cost (to doctors) of spending time with drug reps. You can read the full article here - the bottom line of the calculation was that, on …
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