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David Zimmerman, PharmD, President/Owner
Doctors of Pharmacy, Inc.
February 11, 2008
Zyprexa safety
Analysis of: FDA Advisory Committee Supports Efficacy and Safety of Zyprexa (www.fiercebiotech.com)
This article is informative because it draws conclusions about Zyprexa.
Analysis of: Chantix And Suicide: The Latest Numbers (www.pharmalot.com)
No good data that Chantix is associated with suicide Need more controlled research to answer questions Scary adverse events are not the same as side effects directly linked to medication
Analysis of: Medicare Proghram End Hurts Healthways (www.forbes.com)
     The apparent abandonment of American Healthways DM by CMS is a big deal.  DM is one of the very few promising techniques available to curve costs, and yes, even improve wellness by preventing onset of disease attack.  The premise of limiting "admissions" is what...
Frederic Goldstein, President and Chief Operating Officer
Frederic Goldstein, President and Chief Operating Officer
U.S. Preventive Medicine, Inc.
Analysis of: Group Offers Doctors Bonuses for Better Care (online.wsj.com)
The large employers have begun to coalesce around the notion that changes in the health care system may need to come from them.  This may ultimately drive the reform needed to correct the inefficiencies inappropriate utilization issues in the current system. It also points to the recognition...
Frederic Goldstein, President and Chief Operating Officer
Frederic Goldstein, President and Chief Operating Officer
U.S. Preventive Medicine, Inc.
Analysis of: Medicare Proghram End Hurts Healthways (www.forbes.com)
Medicare has announced the end of the Medicare Health Support Phase I pilots.  None of the pilots to date has met requirements for cost or clinical improvements. Phase II was not discussed. Can the current DM model of a highly telephonic approach demonstrate improvements and continue to sell?
Frederic Goldstein, President and Chief Operating Officer
Frederic Goldstein, President and Chief Operating Officer
U.S. Preventive Medicine, Inc.
Analysis of: WellCare Aims to Oust Three Top Officials (online.wsj.com)
While Wellcare has rebounded somewhat since it's critical fall following the FBI raid, there is still the likelihood of serious repercussions.  Should the WSJ story be true, the problems go to the top. The Board may be preparing to admit to serious problems and through this action demonstrate to...
Analysis of: WellPoint patients to review doctors online (www.healthcarefinancenews.com)
Somebody really smart once said, "Sleep, riches and health to be truly enjoyed must be interrupted."  However flawed P4P, EBM, TQM, critical pathways, centers of excellence, and outcomes measurement are, they at least attempt to define QUALITY. The argument rages and usually ignores the most...
Frederic Goldstein, President and Chief Operating Officer
Frederic Goldstein, President and Chief Operating Officer
U.S. Preventive Medicine, Inc.
Analysis of: The New Insurance Frontier (www.healthleadersmedia.com)
The uninsured are often not the risky market that one presumes, in addition, various states, counties and cities are proposing systems that compensate all of or a portion of the uninsured health care costs. This will be a growing market and early entrants will do well. 
Analysis of: The New Insurance Frontier (www.healthleadersmedia.com)
    MiniMed aka Limited Medical aka Scheduled Medical Benefits are not new.  They derive from the disease specific plans of old.  The article suggests that the uninsured have been ignored which is incorrect.  Many major players have rushed this market niche to find...
David Zimmerman, PharmD, President/Owner
Doctors of Pharmacy, Inc.
Analysis of: Cialis Is Cleared for Daily Use (online.wsj.com)
    Physicians have been prescribing lower dose Cialis...off label... for a long time. The FDA finally agreed and approved it.

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