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Teva and Ranbaxy Agreement Announced for the Sale of Generic Lipitor With the huge sales of Lipitor Pfizer has had over the years, this has to be one of the hottest generics around today as Teva will profit f...
FINRA Sanctions Firms for Selling Interests in Troubled Companies, One in the OC, Capital Holdings Financed IHHI–Chain of 8 Hospitals in the OC–Guns, Porn You Name It All Here This is a healthcare soap opera if you have ever heard one. I guess living here I’m probably a little closer to this and have friends who w...
Former FDA Chief Dr. Andrew von Eschenbach Appointed to the Board of Directors For BioTime and OncoCyte In the last couple of years the former FDA Commish has also landed a couple of other board positions as well which I hope will keep him out ...
Watson Pharma Gets FDA Approval for Generic Version of Contraceptive Yaz–A Drug That Has Suffered Recalls & Other Issues Back in the middle of 2010 we had the somewhat hidden recall from the FDA of YAZ as they were out of spec. Hopefully this won’t happen ag...
Report on Jobs Program With Measures to Create Livelihoods–Fix the Math and Create Algorithms to Move Money and Re-Focus on Better Health Versus Risk Assessments This is a nice detailed report and says a lot of what I say and again the focus on fixing the math and the algorithms. Today Harvard put ou...
FDA Compliance Seminar on Access Data Base Validation in Drug Discovery This was worth nothing and the seminar is coming up in January. Good old Access still the work horse of a lot of data base work. Actually ...
Toilet Paper Fraud–Elderly Customers Were Sold More Than 70 Years Worth of Toilet Paper Formulated for Septic Tanks To Pass Federal Inspections This is about as low as it gets! I can see today how this happened as sometimes even writing this blog, I feel like I am writing Sci-Fi at ...
ER Building Boom By Hospitals in Some Parts of the US Taking Place–Cash Cows for Hospitals to Lure Insured Patients in Affluent Areas–Bigger Exposure to Re-Admissions Just when you think you have heard it all, we now have free-standing ER facilities being built and this story focuses on an area in Washingt...
FDA Approves Middle of the Night Sleeping Pill–Treatments Are Getting Specific–Is This Personalized Medicine? Ok so a little humor as you are only supposed to have this sleeping aid if you already have some sleep under your belt. It’s a lower dose s...
Merck In Germany Fighting Merck in the US Over Facebook Page–German Merck Files Lawsuit & Wants Their Page Back- How Good Is That Privacy Over There.. German Merck and US Merck are two different companies and were separated years ago. Can one not start another Facebook page? It’s not lik...
High Frequency Trading Firm Fined $850k for Losing Control of an Algorithm in Rapid Succession Buying–Bad Math and Some Killer Algos At Work- Keep Occupying… Ok, get this, the algorithm had only been created the night before and only had one or two hours of testing…hmmm…how about those algos in he...
“Occupy Algorithms”–”The Attack of the Killer Algorithms Part 5” - Nothing Will Improve Until Audits and Actions Takes Place To Correct Formulas Built for Profit Only by Corporations And We Battle Back With Math This is kind of a summary statement of what I have been saying for the last number of years. The Occupy movement basically reinforces this ...
UnitedHealthCare Buys Another Company XLHealth HMO Medicare Advantage Managed Care With Heavy Analytics–Subsidiary Watch The big corporate insurance machine keeps getting bigger all the time, if not Physician's groups it’s HMO companies, not to mention othe...
High Frequency Traders Using Social Networks and Growing Rapidly With Algorithms That Find, Sort and Leverage-Growing At A Rate Faster Than Facebook I will keep repeating myself, license and tax those folks who are using all the data out there, a gold mine and guess what they are part of...
