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Don’t Be A JerkEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
I didn’t draw the graph at right. It was made by a woman named Jessica Hagy over at www.thisisindexed.com. Jessica is not in the medical profession. She draws her observations about the world on index cards and posts them online. She also has a long and growing list of blogging awards from around the world. Mostly due to her brilliantly irreverent style and her ability to make social observations that resonate with people. Like this one. It’s a sad but true observation. For some reason, it seems like many medical personnel have an interesting combination of helpfulness and jerkiness. Why do you suppose that is...
Source: The EMT Spot - November 21, 2009 Category: Ambulance Crew Authors: Steve Whitehead Tags: Everything Else The Big Get It care giver patient advocate patient care patient rapport people care Source Type: blogs

Neuropathic Pain From Multiple SclerosisEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Multiple sclerosis can hurt! Pain is a real part of life with MS for over half of us. Pain can come in several forms and affect several areas of the body. The pain I’d like to proffer for our consideration in this post is called neuropathic pain or neuropathy. This is a pain which is caused by a dysfunction of the peripheral nervous system (PNS). Owing to the fact that we have a disease of the central nervous system (CNS), many of us may not be familiar with the PNS. These are the nerves which connect the limbs and organs to the CNS. While there is not suspected demyelination of the PNS, the stripping and scaring of ...
Source: Life with MS - November 20, 2009 Category: Other Conditions Authors: admin Tags: MS blog MS community MS lifestyle MS treatment Uncategorized big toe central nervous system CNS cognitive retraining therapy CRT Everyday Health Life with MS MS and pain multiple sclerosis blog neuropathic pain neuropathy o Source Type: blogs

British National Health Service Goes After American WebsiteEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
A few of you likely know of Dr. Bonkers, the Bonkers Institute and its website. Bonkers--aka Ben Hansen--has tirelessly catalogued pharma ads for psych meds for four years and recently posted some National Health Service brochures he obtained that are alarming. In them, children, teens and young adults are basically told to shut up and take their meds--Zyprexa, Risperdal and Strattera (links are to the brochures). In making them publicly available, Hansen has apparently angered the NHS which contact him and asked him to edit out much of the brochure from his website. Hansen refused (see the exchange below). Some of the la...
Source: Furious Seasons - November 20, 2009 Category: Mental Illness Authors: Philip Dawdy Tags: Big Pharma Source Type: blogs

Talks from SC09Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Up on slideshare Talk given at "Cloud Computing for Systems Biology" workshop View more documents from Deepak Singh. Masterworks talk on Big Data and the implications of petascale science View more documents from Deepak Singh. All talks can be found here (Source: business|bytes|genes|molecules)
Source: business|bytes|genes|molecules - November 19, 2009 Category: Bioinformaticians Authors: Deepak Singh Tags: Big Data Bytes Source Type: blogs

Academic Researchers Fail To Report ConflictsEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
An article today in the New York Times simply blows my mind. I'll just quote from it: "Few universities make required reports to the government about the financial conflicts of their researchers, and even when such conflicts are reported, university administrators rarely require those researchers to eliminate or reduce these conflicts, government investigators found. "In a report expected to be made public on Thursday, Daniel R. Levinson, the inspector general of the Department of Health and Human Services, said 90 percent of universities relied solely on the researchers themselves to decide whether the money they made i...
Source: Furious Seasons - November 19, 2009 Category: Mental Illness Authors: Philip Dawdy Tags: Big Pharma Source Type: blogs

john hoeffel, LAtimes: da cooley vows to prosecute medical cannabis dispensaries regardless of law (2067)Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
D.A. chides L.A. council, says he’ll target pot dispensaries Steve Cooley insists sites that sell marijuana are violating state law and will be prosecuted. Of the City Council’s effort to pass an ordinance, he says: ‘Quite frankly we’re ignoring them.’ By John Hoeffel November 18, 2009 With the Los Angeles City Council poised to take up a medical marijuana ordinance after two years of contentious debate, L.A. County Dist. Atty. Steve Cooley warned Tuesday that he intends to prosecute dispensaries that sell the drug even if the city’s leaders decide to allow those transactions. “Th...
Source: aids-write.org - November 18, 2009 Category: HIV AIDS Authors: Richard Kearns Tags: HIV prevention justice alliance LA city AIDS coordinator's office McCAB McNC aging and HIV/AIDS aids & bubonic plague & 1918 flu americans for safe access / la apla asian-pacific hiv/aids barak obama beingALIVE-la big pharm Source Type: blogs

barbara boxer, courage campaign: please sign petition opposing stupak anti-choice abortion amendment (2063)Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
boxer We are honored to have Senator Barbara Boxer share with Courage Campaign members her commitment to strip the horrific Stupak Amendment from any healthcare reform bill and pass true health care reform. Her message is powerful. We need to show her — and the nation — that thousands and thousands of us stand with her by signing the petition. –Rick Jacobs, Chair, Courage Campaign Dear Friend, Ten days ago, the House passed the Stupak Amendment, which would be one of the biggest setbacks to women’s health in recent decades - unless we stand together and stop it. That’s why we are launc...
Source: aids-write.org - November 17, 2009 Category: HIV AIDS Authors: Richard Kearns Tags: HIV prevention justice alliance LA city AIDS coordinator's office McCAB McNC aging and HIV/AIDS americans for safe access / la apla asian-pacific hiv/aids awo call to action barak obama beingALIVE-la big pharma black msm gay hiv/ai Source Type: blogs

Taking Over Everything (2)Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
“My critics say that I’m taking over every sector of the economy,” President Obama complained to George Stephanopoulos back in September. And I responded: Not every sector. Just health care energy local schools banks insurance companies automobile companies compensation at financial firms newspapers the internet And now check out the lead story in Sunday’s Washington Post: Federal Oversight of Subways Proposed The Obama administration will propose that the federal government take over safety regulation of the nation’s subway and light-rail systems, responding to what it says is haphazard and ineffectiv...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - November 17, 2009 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: David Boaz Tags: Government and Politics Political Philosophy big government government growth President Obama Source Type: blogs

Burger King Sues Burger King for $1Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Serious Eats Selling cheeseburgers for $1 sounds like a good idea, especially for the consumer! After all, maintaining giant thunder-thighs isn't cheap. So no doubt, in the eyes of the customer, cheaper is better. But Burger King's $1 double cheeseburger is no good for Burger King franchises. That's why the franchises are now suing their corporate overlord, claiming the $1 special is forcing them to sell cheeseburgers at a loss.Continue reading... (Source: Diet Blog)
Source: Diet Blog - November 17, 2009 Category: Other Conditions Authors: contactus at diet-blog.com Tags: Big Business Source Type: blogs

A.B.C. of Recovery from AlcoholismEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
The ABC’s of Recovery From a portion of Chapter 5 of the Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous. Our description of the alcoholic, the chapter to the agnostic, and our personal adventures before and after make clear three pertinent ideas: a) that we were alcoholic and could not manage our own lives; b) that probably no human power could have relieved our alcoholism; c) that God could and would if He were sought. See also 12-Step Speaker Tape Links The Dry Drunk Spiritual Health Blockages Related Reading: (Source: Recovery Is Sexy.com)
Source: Recovery Is Sexy.com - November 16, 2009 Category: Addiction Authors: Sparrow Tags: Alcohol Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholism Recovery Relapse Spirituality agnostic big book higher power. Source Type: blogs

Big Pharma's Sneaky TrickEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
An excellent piece in today's New York Times lays out how Big Pharma has been promising to cut costs of its drugs (to the tune of $8 billion a year) to help make health care reform happen while at the same time it's going around raising the prices of its drugs to the tune of $9 billion a year. That's such typical behavior by the drug companies that I'm hardly surprised. They are a truly brazen bunch. You just had to know that with Big Pharma openly supporting health care reform and alleged cost-cutting that something funny had to be going on. Now, we know what it was. (Source: Furious Seasons)
Source: Furious Seasons - November 16, 2009 Category: Mental Illness Authors: Philip Dawdy Tags: Big Pharma Source Type: blogs

john hoeffel, latimes: AMA jumps into medical cannabis fray (2058)Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Medical marijuana gets a boost from major doctors group The American Medical Assn. changes its policy to promote clinical research and development of cannabis-based medicines and alternative delivery methods. By John Hoeffel November 11, 2009 The American Medical Assn. on Tuesday urged the federal government to reconsider its classification of marijuana as a dangerous drug with no accepted medical use, a significant shift that puts the prestigious group behind calls for more research. The nation’s largest physicians organization, with about 250,000 member doctors, the AMA has maintained since 1997 that marijuana sho...
Source: aids-write.org - November 15, 2009 Category: HIV AIDS Authors: Richard Kearns Tags: HIV prevention justice alliance LA city AIDS coordinator's office McCAB McNC aging and HIV/AIDS aids & bubonic plague & 1918 flu americans for safe access / la apla asian-pacific hiv/aids barak obama beingALIVE-la big pharm Source Type: blogs

The Ultimate EMS ProtocolEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
I don’t handle the card much anymore. It stays inside a plastic sleeve in my planner. The edges are worn and the words are faded. It wasn’t printed on kind of paper that travels well in a wallet for twenty plus years. But it’s been worth carrying. It is, quite simply, the ultimate EMS protocol. I don’t read it often. I’ve read it enough times over the past two decades to have it pretty well memorized. It’s my STAR CARE card. I got it back when I was a paramedic student at Baystar Ambulance in San Mateo California. It was 1992. I always believed the original author was none-other-than EMS...
Source: The EMT Spot - November 14, 2009 Category: Ambulance Crew Authors: Steve Whitehead Tags: Everything Else The Big Get It accountability liability patient advocate patient care patient comfort protocols responder safety scene management scene safety star care team teamwork Source Type: blogs

kearns to la city council: carmen trutanich & LA’s “extraordinary response” to HIV/AIDS (2057)Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
[tuesday, November 3, 2009] good morning president garcetti, distinguished council members. i have given the clerk copies of my prepared remarks. my name is richard kearns. i am a 58-year-old gay man with AIDS, a long-term survivor & activist, a medical cannabis advocate, a poet & journalist. i am here this morning to suggest a plan B for medical cannabis in LA please empower a special high-speed ad hoc medical cannabis team, who, starting with the text of the city’s legislative analyst submitted to the plum committee september 25th can finish translating the whereases to section numbers inside a month (sort of ...
Source: aids-write.org - November 13, 2009 Category: HIV AIDS Authors: Richard Kearns Tags: HIV prevention justice alliance LA city AIDS coordinator's office McCAB McNC aging and HIV/AIDS americans for safe access / la apla asian-pacific hiv/aids barak obama beingALIVE-la big pharma black msm gay hiv/aids black women with Source Type: blogs

$5 is the New "It" Word in Fast FoodEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Photobucket: Minda33 "Five...five dollar foot longs." You've probably had Subway's catchy little ditty stuck in your head--ALL DAY--at least once by now. Granted, it's not as nagging as Chili's "I want my baby back, baby back, back," but its pretty hard to shake, which might be a good thing. Turns out, $5 is the latest win-win in fast food gimmicks. Subway raked in $3.8 billion with it, and now other restaurants are giving it a try too.Continue reading... (Source: Diet Blog)
Source: Diet Blog - November 13, 2009 Category: Other Conditions Authors: contactus at diet-blog.com Tags: Big Business Source Type: blogs

kearns, AIDS-write.org: dr. jai mahara’s definition of namasté (2055)Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
chers— this is my favorite essay on the term “namasté,” which belongs in the mix before we go too much further along. i make no claims about divinity here, because nothing can really be verifiably known about divinity. but we all share & perceive & express greatnesses whose roots reach into an inner invisible realm of spirit. namasté —rk . . . while we are singing the praises of namasté, it should be observed how efficient a gesture it is in an age of mass communication. A politician, or performer can greet fifty thousand people with a single namasté, and they can return the honor instan...
Source: aids-write.org - November 12, 2009 Category: HIV AIDS Authors: Richard Kearns Tags: HIV prevention justice alliance LA city AIDS coordinator's office McCAB McNC aging and HIV/AIDS aids & bubonic plague & 1918 flu americans for safe access / la apla asian-pacific hiv/aids beingALIVE-la big pharma black msm Source Type: blogs

The Big 5 Model of PersonalityEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
If you’ve taken a college psychology course or have any interest in personality, you’ve more than likely come across the term “Big Five” personality dimensions or personality traits. These have been gathered through the result of decades’ worth of psychological research into personality. While they don’t capture the idiosyncrasies of everyone’s personality, it is a theoretical framework in which to understand general components of our personality that seem to be the most important in our social and interpersonal interactions with others. Decades of research on personality has uncov...
Source: World of Psychology - November 10, 2009 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: Jason Rentfrow, Ph.D Tags: Brain and Behavior General Mental Health and Wellness Personality Psychology Agreeableness Big 5 Calmness Circular Model Circumplex Dimensions Of Personality Emotional Stability Facets Friendliness General Components Intellec Source Type: blogs

What’s Your Big Picture?Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
I have lots of free money to give away, would you like some? Yeh, of course you would, it’s a no brainer, who doesn’t like free money, but how much do you want? $10 million, $50 million, $100 million maybe? Or perhaps you don’t want to appear greedy and you’re prepared to settle for a couple of million, just to keep the wolf and the IRS from the door. There is however, one small catch to this magnanimous offer. I want to know what you want the money for and if you can’t tell me to my total and complete satisfaction, the deal is off. Maybe you’d confidently inform me it’s to pay off your mortgage, buy a fancy ...
Source: Life Coach Blog: The Discomfort Zone : - November 10, 2009 Category: Life Coaches Authors: Tim Brownson Tags: Life Coaching belief system big picture procrastination sense of purpose Source Type: blogs

I'll Just Do A Round UpEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
I'm in no mood to write today. My headache is gone, but I got yet another reject email from yet another media organization I'd applied to and I am simply not in the mood to put too many sentences together. The NY Times has an op-ed today arguing against lumping together Asperger's syndrome and autism in the forthcoming DSM-5. It's interesting that the paper would choose to highlight that issue since it's been fairly quiet on developments around the new DSM. I wonder why. The Chicago Tribune and ProPublica have a piece out on a Chicago psychiatrist who was prescribing tons of Clozaril to his patients (almost unheard of t...
Source: Furious Seasons - November 10, 2009 Category: Mental Illness Authors: Philip Dawdy Tags: Big Pharma Source Type: blogs

andrew jack, ft.com: glaxo smithkline, pfizer form ViiV to fight HIV/AIDS (2051)Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
ViiV vows joint venture will help fight HIV By Andrew Jack November 3 2009 The new head of the pioneering HIV joint venture between GlaxoSmithKline andPfizer predicts his company can operate for at least five years without fresh funding from its shareholders. Dominique Limet, chief executive of ViiV Healthcare, which was formally launched on Tuesday, says it will generate £1.6bn a year in sales to finance its own research and would begin paying a dividend to its two owners in 2011 as it sells new products. A woman infected with HIV prepares her medicines in Indonesia. She could be one of thousands who would benefit f...
Source: aids-write.org - November 9, 2009 Category: HIV AIDS Authors: Richard Kearns Tags: HIV prevention justice alliance LA city AIDS coordinator's office McCAB McNC aging and HIV/AIDS ahf aids & bubonic plague & 1918 flu americans for safe access / la apla asian-pacific hiv/aids beingALIVE-la big pharma blac Source Type: blogs

NATAP: pharmatimes reports merck/schering merger (2050)Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Larger Merck says merger will actually increase R&D efficiency pharmatimes.com 05 November 2009 The new Merck & Co has opened its doors for business, and the company has been laying out its plans for future growth now that Schering-Plough has been added to the group. Chief executive Richard Clark says that “our integration teams prepared us well for a strong start…with thorough plans designed to ensure a seamless transition”. The new entity now has more than 15 late-stage candidates “spanning critical therapeutic categories” and has 106,000 employees in more than 140 countries. That figure...
Source: aids-write.org - November 9, 2009 Category: HIV AIDS Authors: Richard Kearns Tags: HIV prevention justice alliance LA city AIDS coordinator's office McCAB McNC aging and HIV/AIDS americans for safe access / la apla asian-pacific hiv/aids beingALIVE-la big pharma black msm gay hiv/aids black women with aids champ Source Type: blogs

Not So Brady: 4 Rules for Staying Together When You Remarry with KidsEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
There’s a story … of a lovely lady … who meets her prince charming and the two of them with their six combined children live happily ever after. NOT! Having been Cindy Brady myself — if you changed my stepsister into a boy and fused my twin sister and I into one girl, then you have it: the perfect Brady family — I know that there are bigger problems in the house than Jan’s inferiority complex to Marsha, Peter’s near death experience with a tarantula in Hawaii, and Greg getting a tad chilled in the meat freezer at Sam’s Butcher Shop when he gets locked in there. (Yes, I watc...
Source: World of Psychology - November 8, 2009 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: Therese J. Borchard Tags: Children and Teens General Men's Issues Parenting Relationships Stress Women's Issues Big Hair Brady Family Butcher Shop Cindy Brady Divorce Rate Dweeb Freezer Holding Hands Inferiority Complex Lovely Lady Marsha Near D Source Type: blogs

Ten Things You Can’t Learn About EMSEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
From Your Computer As you might imagine, I’m a big fan of E-learning. I also have a soft spot for the social media craze. But there are still a few things that you just can’t learn staring at a computer screen. OK, there are a LOT of things you can’t learn staring at a computer screen. Here are ten: 1.) You can’t learn pattern recognition. If you’ve ever wondered about how experienced EMTs and medics can figure out exactly what’s wrong with the patient two steps inside the front do...
Source: The EMT Spot - November 6, 2009 Category: Ambulance Crew Authors: Steve Whitehead Tags: Everything Else The Big Get It development EMS EMT growth job job perfomance job satasfaction learning success Source Type: blogs

Feds Investigating Abbott Over Depakote MarketingEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
News is out that the federal Department of Justice is investigating Abbott Labs over questions about its marketing of Depakote, its anti-seizure drug that's also approved for bipolar disorder. It's not clear what the scope of the investigation is, so stay tuned. (Source: Furious Seasons)
Source: Furious Seasons - November 6, 2009 Category: Mental Illness Authors: Philip Dawdy Tags: Big Pharma Source Type: blogs

Psychiatrist Explains His Lilly ConsultingEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Manoj Waikar, an adjunct psychiatry professor at Stanford who's also in private practice in Palo Alto, Calif., has made $74,850 for speaking on Lilly's behalf 51 times this year. So the New York Times smartly tried to find out what made him so sought after by Lilly and what services he provided. What fun that new Lilly database of its outside consultants has become. "In response to queries from a reporter, Dr. Waikar wrote in an e-mail message that he received fees for speaking to other health care professionals about disorders like schizophrenia and depression, which can be treated with the Lilly drugs Zyprexa and Cymbal...
Source: Furious Seasons - November 4, 2009 Category: Mental Illness Authors: Philip Dawdy Tags: Big Pharma Source Type: blogs

Details MatterEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died. ~Erma Bombeck You know when you’re staying at a fine hotel. From the moment you check in at the front desk you know. You can tell while you’re brushing your teeth, ordering your breakfast and reading the paper. You can tell when you set your clock and lay your head down to go to sleep. You may not know how you know, but you know. Fine hotels, restaurants, theaters, cruise lines, resorts and just about everyone else in the service industry are painfully aware of this simple truth. Details matter. “Coffee stains on t...
Source: The EMT Spot - November 3, 2009 Category: Ambulance Crew Authors: Steve Whitehead Tags: Everything Else The Big Get It Source Type: blogs

Countdown to World Diabetes Day: Get Ready for the Big Blue TestEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Hope you all had a fun Halloween weekend. Somehow the conclusion of that sugar-fest seems a great segue into National Diabetes Awareness Month, no? And the countdown begins to World Diabetes Day on Nov. 14, 2009. Where to begin describing all the activities planned around the web and around the world to “bring diabetes [...] (Source: Diabetes Mine)
Source: Diabetes Mine - November 2, 2009 Category: Diabetes Authors: AmyT Tags: D-News Examined Diabetes Blogs and Web Stuff ADA American Diabetes Association Big Blue Test blood sugar blood sugar test diabetes advocacy diabetes.org diabetic glucose monitoring IDF JDRF National Diabetes Awareness Month WDD Source Type: blogs

Agencies partner to launch social media service for pharma companiesEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
(Source: ePharma Summit)
Source: ePharma Summit - October 30, 2009 Category: Pharma Commentators Tags: dm news big pharma news pharma social media social media news Source Type: blogs

NAMI Lies In NYT Letter To The EditorEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Today, NAMI National's executive director Michael Fitzpatrick penned a letter to the editor of the New York Times and objected to how NAMI had been portrayed in a recent article which outlined how the group had gotten about $23 million in pharma funding in recent years. The paper had claimed that represented two-thirds of NAMI's budget and Fitzpatrick wrote to claim it only represented 50 percent. Then he dropped this claim into the letter: "NAMI maintains strict guidelines that govern all corporate relations and does not endorse or promote any specific medication, treatment, service or product." That's a bald-faced lie...
Source: Furious Seasons - October 30, 2009 Category: Mental Illness Authors: Philip Dawdy Tags: Big Pharma Source Type: blogs

Why Do Bad Ideas Stick Around?Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
I’ll confess. I like EMS blogger’s who rant about stuff. I know I don’t rant much here at The Spot. It’s not really my style and it doesn’t really fit with the mission of the blog. But sometimes we need folks to rant. Sometimes there’s just nothing quite as effective as someone who knows how to respectfully, intelligently rant. Sometimes we need folks like Rouge Medic, Buckman and Ckemtp who are willing to call us all out. A passionate, well thought out rant can inspire change. It can motivate, encourage and provoke the kind of thoughtful introspection that we need. We need someone to t...
Source: The EMT Spot - October 29, 2009 Category: Ambulance Crew Authors: Steve Whitehead Tags: The Big Get It change Source Type: blogs

Matt’s manifesto for a science data platformEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
There are a select few people whose every word I try and absorb and chew on because I have great respect for their thinking and intelligence. Matt Wood is one of those people, and today he decided to tweet a manifesto. The whole series started with I’m starting a manifesto. There are no technical, political or funding reasons why an open data platform for science couldn’t excel He then followed that up with five tweets (Matt’s Twitter stream). I don’t know if that’s the entire manifesto, but I reproduce those tweets below, a series entitled Towards a science data platform Easy, flexible retri...
Source: business|bytes|genes|molecules - October 29, 2009 Category: Bioinformaticians Authors: Deepak Singh Tags: Big Data Bytes Source Type: blogs

Congress To Go After Medicaid Fraud, Why Not Fraud Against Patients Too?Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
The Wall Street Journal noted yesterday that Congress is planning to take steps to wipe out the estimated $60 billion a year in Medicaid fraud. "'The scale of health care fraud in America today is staggering,' Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy (D., Vt.) said at a hearing. 'Now, as health care reform moves through the Senate, I want to make sure we do all we can to tackle the fraud that could undermine efforts to reduce the skyrocketing cost of health care.'" That's all well and good and I wish Congress luck. A good amount of the fraudulent behavior comes from our friends at America's Pharmaceutical Resear...
Source: Furious Seasons - October 29, 2009 Category: Mental Illness Authors: Philip Dawdy Tags: Big Pharma Source Type: blogs

Federal Education Results Prove the Framers RightEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Yesterday, I offered the Fordham Foundation’s Andy Smarick an answer to a burning question: What is the proper federal role in education? It was a question prompted by repeatedly mixed signals coming from U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan about whether Washington will be a tough guy, coddler, or something in between when it comes to dealing with states and school districts. And what was my answer? The proper federal role is no role, because the Constitution gives the feds no authority over American education. Not surprisingly, Smarick isn’t going for that. Unfortunately, his reasoning confirms my s...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - October 28, 2009 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Neal McCluskey Tags: Education and Child Policy General Law and Civil Liberties 14th amendment andy smarick big government Congress Constitution education spending failure federal dollars federal education fordham foundation intervention national a Source Type: blogs

Talking to Pharma, Online and OfflineEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
There are so many great events around empowered patients and consumer-driven healthcare in the Fall. It also being soccer season, the kickoff of the school year, and time for nearly every existing Jewish holiday, I can’t possibly attend as many as I’d like to. This makes me especially thankful to have some good D-blogger [...] (Source: Diabetes Mine)
Source: Diabetes Mine - October 27, 2009 Category: Diabetes Authors: AmyT Tags: Diabetes Blogs and Web Stuff Health 2.0 Big Pharma diabetes community diabetic ePatients ePharma Humalog Novo Nordisk patient communities patient networks pharma social media pharmaceutical marketing Source Type: blogs

A Train of a Morning...Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
I drove into West Point this morning hoping to see Big S. I hadn't seen him in months and George had said he was hanging out at the shopping center across the river. No Big S. It was just too cold at 52 degrees. I did notice the train signal had just turned yellow meaning a train was on the way. I turned around, parked at the bank, and sat on the very same bench where Ferret used to sleep when he was homeless. How he could get any sleep on that cold concrete I will never know, but he did. Soon, a train came roaring through downtown. This always perks me up ...
Source: The 4th Avenue Blues - October 24, 2009 Category: Mental Illness Tags: Mom and Me Railroads Big S medications George and the Gang Ferret Source Type: blogs

NAMI Got $23 Million From Pharma CompaniesEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
The New York Times is out today with an article on just how much money NAMI has been getting from Big Pharma in recent years--a ton, three-fourths of its total fundraising. "The mental health alliance, which is hugely influential in many state capitols, has refused for years to disclose specifics of its fund-raising, saying the details were private. "But according to investigators in Mr. Grassley’s office and documents obtained by The New York Times, drug makers from 2006 to 2008 contributed nearly $23 million to the alliance, about three-quarters of its donations. "Even the group’s executive director, Michael Fitzp...
Source: Furious Seasons - October 21, 2009 Category: Mental Illness Authors: Philip Dawdy Tags: Big Pharma Source Type: blogs

Lexapro Sales Stabilized By Lexapro Sales To TeensEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
In a conference call with analysts on Tuesday, Forest Labs' COO Larry Olanoff noted slightly decreased Lexapro sales and credited the drug's recent FDA approval for use in adolescents as helping to stabilize Lexapro's sales. "Lexapro sales in the quarter totaled $566 million, a decline of 3.1% year-over-year. In March, we announced the FDA approval of our supplemental NDA for Lexapro, for the indication of acute and maintenance treatment of major depressive disorder in adolescence, 12 to 17 years of age. This additional indication is helping to stabilize the position of Lexapro in the market, and we have observed an incre...
Source: Furious Seasons - October 21, 2009 Category: Mental Illness Authors: Philip Dawdy Tags: Big Pharma Source Type: blogs

Too Big to Fail ReduxEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Mervyn King, governor of the Bank of England, has shocked the staid world of British banking by raising the possibility of breaking up the UKs big banks. Mr. King is no socialist, but a worried banking regulator. He is worried about “the sheer creative imagination of of the financial sector to think up new ways of taking risk.” Around the world, regulators and finance ministers are hoping that banks will grow their way out of their current mess. To do so, however, banks will in fact need to seek new ways of taking on risk. It is called going for broke: the upside goes to stockholders and managers, and the downs...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - October 21, 2009 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Gerald P. O'Driscoll Tags: General bank risk England Fed fed officials finance ministers financial sector governor governor of the bank of england mervyn king regulators stockholder too big to fail Treasury united states Source Type: blogs

Cymbalta Sales Way UpEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Eli Lilly announced its third quarter results today. Cymbalta sales are way up: "Lilly's biggest drug, Zyprexa, posted sales of $1.2 billion, up 2.8%. Higher selling prices offset lower demand in the U.S. Demand increased outside the U.S. Sales of antidepressant Cymbalta rose 10% to $790 million." A 10 percent increase over the same quarter last year is pretty significant. While I'm not clear on whether Lilly upped Cymbalta prices in the last year (which would account for a portion of the revenue increase if they had), it looks as though more scrips for this tricky anti-depressant are being written. Whether they are for ...
Source: Furious Seasons - October 20, 2009 Category: Mental Illness Authors: Philip Dawdy Tags: Big Pharma Source Type: blogs

AstraZeneca Offers Buyouts To Entire Sales ForceEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
I don't often comment on the ebb and flow of pharma corporate news, but via Pharmalot comes news that AstraZeneca is asking its entire US sales force--some 5,000 to 6,000 people--to "self identify" whether or not they want to accept a buyout from the pharma giant. Don't think that AZ is getting out of the drug business, but like a lot of pharma companies it faces several products going off-patent over the next few years (Seroquel, Crestor, etc.), so it's cutting costs where it can. Quite a few pharma companies (lilly, BMS, AZ) are facing a serious "pipeline problem" of not having new drugs forthcoming to market to the publ...
Source: Furious Seasons - October 18, 2009 Category: Mental Illness Authors: Philip Dawdy Tags: Big Pharma Source Type: blogs

Glaxo Negligent, Not OutrageousEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
An article in yesterday's Philadelphia Inquirer is the first mainstream media piece to try and grapple with the implications of last week's court award of $2.5 million to the family of Lyam Kilker. His mother took Paxil while she was pregnant with him and he was born with several heart defects. The jury verdict was in some ways mixed. "Jurors linked Lyam's problems to Paxil and said Glaxo had been negligent in not properly warning David's doctor of the drug's risk, but they did not find the London company's behavior outrageous, which would have been necessary to award punitive damages.... "Kline said last week's jury ver...
Source: Furious Seasons - October 18, 2009 Category: Mental Illness Authors: Philip Dawdy Tags: Big Pharma Source Type: blogs

Gov’t Sues Tobacco Companies – Really?Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
If this wasn’t such a serious topic, it would almost be funny. Farmers, who want to earn a living, grow tobacco for big tobacco companies. Big tobacco companies buy the tobacco to turn into cigarettes and chewing tobacco. Big tobacco companies spend millions and millions of dollars on salaries, production, advertising, and sales. Government rakes in millions and millions of dollars on income tax from tobacco company employees, sales (and other) tax on equipment purchased, gas employees use to get to work, and so on. Big tobacco companies rake in millions and millions of dollars in profit. Smokers get sick from using...
Source: Healthbolt - October 18, 2009 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Marijke Durning, RN Tags: Addiction Government big tobacco company cigarretes make cigarettes illegal Smoking smoking related illnesses tobacco industry Source Type: blogs

Think About ItEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
We do our job, and while we do our job we think about how we do our job. And we certainly decide what we think about our job. But we don’t often think about how we think about or job? Do you ever think about the way you think about your job? I think it’s important. What do you think? (Source: The EMT Spot)
Source: The EMT Spot - October 17, 2009 Category: Ambulance Crew Authors: Steve Whitehead Tags: The Big Get It job satasfaction Source Type: blogs

Court Rules AstraZeneca Overcharged KY Medicaid ProgramEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
AstraZeneca yesterday was found liable by a Kentucky court of ripping off that state's Medicaid program. "AstraZeneca, maker of popular drugs such as Crestor, Nexium and Seroquel, must reimburse Kentucky $14.72 million after overcharging its Medicaid program between November 1999 and March 2005. "AstraZeneca lied when reporting its average wholesale price on a number of drugs, said George Galland, representing Kentucky in the civil fraud trial that ended Thursday. "AstraZeneca inflated its prices between 20 and 30 percent depending on the drug, Galland told the jury in his summation. "The average wholesale price is ca...
Source: Furious Seasons - October 15, 2009 Category: Mental Illness Authors: Philip Dawdy Tags: Big Pharma Source Type: blogs

More Paxil Birth Defects Case Documents AvailableEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Bob Fiddaman of Seroxat (Paxil) Sufferers had done a fine job of getting his hands on various transcripts and depositions from the recently-completed Paxil birth defects case in Pennsylvania. He's now got up the deposition of Jane Nieman, a former GlaxoSmithKline employee. Go to his site to download the document. Although there have been a few smallish articles in the US press, news of the $2.5 million jury award sure hasn't shown up in the New York Times, Washington Post or LA Times. That's kind of weird, especially in light of the fact that GSK faces about another 600 birth defects lawsuits and also because it's very un...
Source: Furious Seasons - October 15, 2009 Category: Mental Illness Authors: Philip Dawdy Tags: Big Pharma Source Type: blogs

What Makes A Good EMT (Part 2)Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Still struggling with the good EMT thing. I’m glad to be at your service. Grab a pen and answer these questions for yourself. What’s your internal bias toward dealing with patients and their challenges? When patients have needs that don’t meet with your expectations how do you tend to react? Could you do that better? How? What’s it like to be your partner? How do people feel about you after they’ve run calls with you? Is that by your design? How do you handle it when you fail? When you have a bad call or things don’t go right? Are you willing to be fallible before your peers and own y...
Source: The EMT Spot - October 13, 2009 Category: Ambulance Crew Authors: Steve Whitehead Tags: The Big Get It attitude EMT emt questions job satasfaction partner partners teamwork Source Type: blogs

Glaxo Must Pay $2.5 Million In Paxil Birth Defects CaseEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
A Pennsylvania jury earlier today found GlaxoSmithKline liable for heart defects caused to a young boy whose mother was taking the company's anti-depressant Paxil while pregnant. The jury awarded the boy's family $2.5 million. Plaintiff's attorneys had argued that Paxil had caused the defects and had failed to properly test the drug and, while knowing of its ability to cause defects, had failed to warn consumers properly. This is a significant ruling because it's the first time GSK has been found liable in a birth defects case and because there are abut 600 more similar cases awaiting trial. GSK's lawyers said they would...
Source: Furious Seasons - October 12, 2009 Category: Mental Illness Authors: Philip Dawdy Tags: Big Pharma Source Type: blogs

What Makes A Good EMT?Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
I get a bunch of E-mails from people just starting their EMT education who want advice on how to excel in their programs. “How should I prepare? What books do you recommend?” The questions vary but their is always the familiar flavor of enthusiasm and the same basic question, “How do I do this well?” Success in this field is fairly predictable. Use the right recipe and you’ll get there. I think the hierarchy of EMS success looks like this: 1.) Attitude 2.) Motivation 3.) Tolerance for repetition 4.) Goal orientation 5.) Strategy and tactics 6.) Performance �...
Source: The EMT Spot - October 11, 2009 Category: Ambulance Crew Authors: Steve Whitehead Tags: Everything Else The Big Get It attitude EMS emt class naemt national registry skill Skills success testing Source Type: blogs

Big Pink Bus Battles Breast CancerEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Because of my blog a lot of people contact me to tell me about their efforts to promote breast cancer awareness or other initiatives to battle breast cancer. Actually most of them are worthwhile. I am always amazed by the devotion and dedication people have in helping others. I am even more amazed when I hear about a story like the one that was on my local news today. A woman in her 40’s was diagnosed with breast cancer just after leaving her job. She had no health care and no income. She actually did some research to look for a place she could go to die; there was no way that she was going to be able to afford treat...
Source: Life with Breast Cancer - October 9, 2009 Category: Cancer Authors: admin Tags: Breast cancer community Breast cancer diagnosis Breast cancer lifestyle Uncategorized battle big pink bus blog breast cancer awareness breast cancer blog cancer society diagnosed Doral Bank evereyday health Kathy-Ellen Kups Lif Source Type: blogs