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Joe Atkins, RN, MBA, CNN, CHT, Chief Executive Officer
Medical Concepts & Innovations
Analysis of: UPDATE: FDA Head Sees Economic Fraud Behind Tainted Heparin (www.reuters.com)
First, and foremost, the only working link for this article can be found at: http://www.reuters.com/article/domesticNews/idUSWAT00934620080415?feedType=RSS&feedName=domesticNews Although there is no proof offered in the article to substantiate the suggestion of fraud, there is enough circumstantial...
Robert Forster, MD, Healthcare Consultant
Robert Forster, MD, Healthcare Consultant
Robert Forster, MD
Analysis of: Experts see boost to genetic testing from US bill (www.reuters.com)
There are many reasons why the commercialization of human genome "information" will be ABSOLUTE CHAOS AND COST.  The three most prominent are the following:   1. Physician education is almost devoid of practical genomic teachings except for Diabetes and lipid disorders.   2. ...
Joe Atkins, RN, MBA, CNN, CHT, Chief Executive Officer
Medical Concepts & Innovations
Analysis of: FDA fees eyed to boost food, drug safety (www.usatoday.com)
One only has to read about the Heparin debacle, which has killed, at least, 81 Americans, to realize that there is a serious issue with the quality of medicines produced in China.  Manufacturing of medical food and consumer goods in China is growing at such a rate, the Chinese government has neither...
Joe Atkins, RN, MBA, CNN, CHT, Chief Executive Officer
Medical Concepts & Innovations
Analysis of: The Price of Excess: Identifying Waste in Healthcare Spending (blogs.wsj.com)
It's easy to point fingers of blame and this article does that, very well.  According to the "annalysis" everybody is to blame.  And, they're right, everyone is to blame, but where the article fails is the authoris inability to point out a real solution to the problem of wasted dollars spent...
Joe Atkins, RN, MBA, CNN, CHT, Chief Executive Officer
Medical Concepts & Innovations
Analysis of: WellPoint likely to follow FDA on anemia drugs (www.reuters.com)
Over the last year, it has become clear that the over-use of anemia drugs for cancer and renal failure has become a problem.  The reason can be sumed up in one word, which is profit.
Frederic Goldstein, President and Chief Operating Officer
Frederic Goldstein, President and Chief Operating Officer
U.S. Preventive Medicine, Inc.
Analysis of: Experts see boost to genetic testing from US bill (www.reuters.com)
The passage of this bill by the Senate and the likely passage by the house are both good for consumers as well as the companies that conduct genetic testing.
Adam Fein, PhD, Founder & President
Adam Fein, PhD, Founder & President
Pembroke Consulting Inc
Analysis of: NACDS Urges Congress to Refrain from Mandating Prescription Drug E-Pedigree Requirements (www.nacds.org)
The movement to make the pharmacy supply chain safer just took a huge step forward with Friday’s introduction of H.R. 5839 Safeguarding America’s Pharmaceuticals Act of 2008. The bill is co-sponsored by Representatives Steve Buyer (R-IN), Gene Green (D-TX), Jim Matheson (D-UT), and Mike Rogers (R-MI)....
Keith Berman, MPH, MBA, Consultant
Keith Berman, MPH, MBA, Consultant
Health Research Associates
Analysis of: Study Suggests Gammagard Liquid May Target the Primary Pathway Involved in Alzheimer's Disease (biz.yahoo.com)
Three presentations at this week's AAN meeting in Chicago are adding in a big way to accumulating evidence that intravenous immunoglobulin (IVIg) may slow, halt or even PREVENT accumulation of toxic beta-amyloid -- a prime culprit in the development of Alzheimer's disease (AD) in millions of aging individuals....
Adam Fein, PhD, Founder & President
Adam Fein, PhD, Founder & President
Pembroke Consulting Inc
Analysis of: McKesson Corporation to Acquire McQueary Brothers Drug Company (www.mckesson.com)
McKesson (MCK) is acquiring McQueary Brothers Drug Company, one the few remaining regional drug wholesalers in the U.S.  McKesson is paying a substantial premium for the McQueary’s business, although the deal could be justified given today’s pharmacy industry dynamics. Will the higher price lure...
Analysis of: House OKs Limits on Health Insurance (www.post-gazette.com)
Pennsylvania is a bell weather for hospital reporting in the US.  The "hospital costing containment council" (I forget the name) is famous for highlighting percentage of patients acquiring hospital infections after arrival.  Accountability for these very high costs lay with people managing...

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