Healthcare News by GLG Council Members

There are many illnesses which people call "the flu." Not every illness with fever, aches and congestion is influenza, the only disease which these anti-virals will help.

Sure, it is a good idea to prevent cervical cancer and genital warts, if possible. But given the relatively low frequency of cervical cancer, and the effectiveness of regular screening, this seems like a situation where the choice should be left to the individual.

Jupiter study demonstrated significant reduction of cardiovascular morbidity and mortality in patients with high hs-CRP and acceptable lipid profile. This study demonstrates that rosuvastatin might play a major role in modulating inflammation pathways predisposing to cardiovascular diseases. hs-CRP is a systemic inflammation biomarker and might not be useful in  clinical practice...

CVS Caremark (CVS) launched its new Health Savings Pass, which allows customers to buy 90 day supplies of over 400 generics for $9.99 (after paying an enrollment fee of $10). The new program sounds like a logical pre-emptive strike against anticipated share losses. Translation: an old-fashioned, race-to-the-bottom price war! A barrier has been breached with CVS’ entry into the discount retail generics...

20 mg of Crestor is a high dose associated in many studies with a higher incidence of side effects.  Since compliance is historically poor with any maintenance medication, it will be interesting to see if patients with normal LDL with stay compliant with this statin or any statin in the higher doses in a real world population.  It is also important to note that simvastatin, another super-statin...

This drug will allow patients in severe pain to get the necessary pain relief and not have to worry about the other patients that abuse the drug.

Saturn trial attempted to focus on EGFR reative patients Saturn was positive as a maintenance therapy, while concurrent was not

Significant decline scheduled procedures. Greater activity in Emergency Room combined with increase in uninsured and underinsured patients. A difficult outlook for Acute care facilities.

1:Crestor is the most potent statin in the market,yet is 3d in sales behind Zocor and Lipitor.2:The efficacy supriority together with its capacity to lower CRP levels led to the highest rate of ASCVD prevention in the shortest period of time evr documented in statin trials.3:The trial in near 18,000 patients with otherwise lower risk of ASCVD offered $0% reduction y many ascvd endpoints.4:There were...

A new study in Archives of Ophthalmology, November 2008 indicates that a reason for the large number of infections from Bausch & Lomb's Renu Moisture Loc solution was due to poor temperature control reducing antifungal and antimicrobial efficacy.