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David Zimmerman, PharmD, President/Owner
Doctors of Pharmacy, Inc.
Analysis of: FDA Asks if Pain Pill Is Tamper-Proof (online.wsj.com)
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.
November 12, 2008
Science vs Marketing
Analysis of: Pharma need not worry too much about President Obama (www.pharmatimes.com)
The Obama vision is based on science driving the prescription process.  As such, DTC advertising and the sampling of brand name medications will either be restricted or incentives provided to MDs to replace samples with vouchers.  PBMs will be required to be absolutely transparent and Medicare...
Analysis of: Hospitals See Drop in Paying Patients (www.nytimes.com)
Not just hospitals, but many players will see receivables drop including wellness and disease management companies, imaging diagnostics and labs, and soon manufacturers.
Analysis of: Slowdown? India adds 10 mn mobile users in Sept (www.business-standard.com)
Indian economy is not slowing down even if global finacial market is in crises.  The indian population has been denied the access of the convenient and comfort of the land-line telephone facilities due to unaffordable high price to use them.  Now the introduction of mobile phone gives them...
Analysis of: Watson Announces Positive Data for Its Investigational Oxybutynin Topical Gel for the Treatment of Overactive Bladder at SUNA's Annual Conference (www.pipelinereview.com)
The comparator product to oxybutynin topical gel (OTG) is Ditropan XL which is also a once daily drug.
October 13, 2008
This is not a study!
Analysis of: St John's Wort 'as good as Prozac' (ukpress.google.com)
The word "study" should not have appeared in the first sentence of the article.  What we have here is commonly known as a "meta-analysis".  A meta-analysis is nothing more than a simple tool that obviates the need to pull multiple studies to make one point or another. ...
Analysis of: National Trends in Psychotherapy by Office-Based Psychiatrists (archpsyc.ama-assn.org)
Unfortunately, many insurance payors do not realize that allowing psychotherapy visits may save the money in the long run by reducing the need for much more costly Inpatient psychiatric treatment. I find that my patients who receive psychotherapy are much less likely to miss work and much...
William Fink, R.Ph., President
Managed Care Pharmacy Consultants, Inc
Analysis of: Dr. Mark Yergin testifies to Congress (www.nytimes.com)
Doctors must be educated on the correct use of Methadone if unnecessary deaths are to be avoided.
Frederic Goldstein, President and Chief Operating Officer
Frederic Goldstein, President and Chief Operating Officer
U.S. Preventive Medicine, Inc.
Analysis of: Healthways' Guidance Not So Healthy (www.forbes.com)
Healthways reported lower than expected earnings in its current quarter and analysts are pointing to a tightening in the healthcare markets and the fact that Healthways products are expensive. Does this really make sense?
Jeanette Plowman, Independent Consultant
Jeanette Plowman, Independent Consultant
Jeanette Plowman
Analysis of: HR outsourcing gaining steam (www.hindu.com)
A recent study claimed that the global BPO industry will be worth $230 billion by 2012 and India stands to gain $50 billion of that global pie.  This boom may be in the wake of an U.S. economic downturn as employers who have historically shied away from offshoring may now become more receptive...

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