GLG News in Healthcare

How many physicians will allow themseves to be a "hired gun" for the right price? It is very disturbing to the general public and erodes their confidence in the profession in general. This needs to stop or be made public!

We see many drugs with issues that come to light only in post-marketing studies and reports. Big Pharma is in it for the profit- undfortinately only positive studies  will allow this.

Articles with the terms "superbug", "known as gram-negative bacteria" , "so called gram-positve category" and "ultra resistant" do not give the reader much confidence in the "facts and figures" that are presented in the publication.   Hospital microbiology labs, infectious disease specialists, epidemiologist and infection control groups need to design more clinical trials...

Cardinal Health (CAH) is rapidly growing its Chinese drug distribution business, while expanding manufacturing in India (but not China). This strategy is especially interesting given Cardinal’s planned separation of its supply chain division from clinical & medical products. The era of global wholesalers is coming, with or without a U.S. importation law.

This week the federal government implemented its long awaited and often controversial policy not to reimburse hospitals for the extra costs of treating patients who experience during the admission one or more of 11 so-called "never events".  Dozens of states, insurers and others are following suit.  Although the cost savings from decreased reimbursements are not considered to be great...

There is a alot of information in the media  about the dangers of givng OTC cough medication to young children . Many children have ended up in the emergency room after "over-ingesting" "cold remedy products that include OTC antihistamines, decongestants and  cough suppressants. Also when used by them selves they aren't very effective in relieving sympotms. My opinion that when used under...

The articles more often go unpublished if the study indicates that there is no benefit to new drugs over older drugs.

How can we best determine if the correlation is a direct cause an effect.  Do the anticholinergics cause increase MI and cardiac disease or do the anticholinergics lead to something else that results in MI and carddiovascular disease.

The article summarizes the best treatment for ADHD in children; training the parents and teachers how to more effectively interact with the child.  The article is written for the BBC.

Radon is responsible for about 15% on lung cancer deaths in the US??