GLG News by Physicians who Treat Hypertension (US)

The oral anticoagulant market is huge and expanding. It is currently dominated by warfarin, which is widely prescribed, but which needs monthly blood draws to monitor the treatment intensity. The parenteral (non-oral) anticoagulant market is dominated by two players: [unfractioned] heparin (which is...

The long term efficacy of botulinum toxin Type A for the treatment of glabellar frown lines was recently discussed  in San Antonio, Texas at the 66th annual meeting of the American Association of Dermatology. Kawashima and other fellow Japanese investigators presented long-term (64 weeks)...

Statin therapy in lower risk populations will not have as profound an effect as in high risk subsets but still very likely has overall positive benefits.

It is important to understand that geographic placement of these clinics is important.  I think these clinics will continue to pop up until the industry feels out exactly where the market is.  We are located in the southwest suburbs of Chicago, and there are many of these clinics which are...

The time taken away from seeing patients is expensive.  The physicians do not feel like they are trained well enough in understanding scientific studies and so they may be biased by information provided by the representatives that is not scientific.  They believe that innovations by pharmaceutical...

I anticipate vytorin and zetia sales will be down substantial when the IMS numbers come out tommorrow, but that this will be only the beginning of a negative trend for these scripts. I list below several reasons why.

 Bariatric surgery is a major operative procedure that caries significant morbidity and mortality risks due to the comorbid diseases seen in this patient population.  This procedure is increasing in frequency as more patients are willing to have it and more surgeons are becoming proficient. The...

TRITON-TIMI 38 study of 13,608 patients with ACS compared prasugrel against clopidogrel, combined with aspirin.  Prasugrel reduced the combined rate of CV death, MI or stroke (12.1% for clopidogrel vs. 9.9% for prasugrel). The benefit came at a cost of increased serious bleeding (1.4%, vs....

It is disappointing that Medicare does not pay for well exams where vaccines like this would be given.  It is unfortunate that in an attempt by medicare to save money, they are probably losing money.  It is at the annual well exam where I counsel patients on the vaccinations that they should...

I work as both an ER physician and a Family Physician in a clinic and something needs to be done so that I do not need to see patients in the ER for problems that could easily be handled in the less expensive clinic.  Other countries have better health plans because patients have an incentive to...