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Sanofi (Genzyme) Plans To Appeal FDA Decision to Not Approve Lemtrada For Treatment of Multiple-Sclerosis Back in 2012 the FDA did approve another drug from Genzyme, who is owned by Sanofi for the treatment of multiple-sclerosis and the current d...
Retail DNA SNP Testing Results Compared Can Have A Lot of Variances, Won’t Be As Accurate As a Full Sequence So Best To Leave It Up to the Professionals.. The DNA tests the author had done were segments of DNA called SNPs and none were a complete sequence and you can read through her comments a...
Michelle Snyder, Chief Operating Officer At CMS Who Supervised Roll Out of Healthcare.Gov Announces Retirement, The “Sebelius Syndrome”.. We have one more announcing retirement and 41 years spent at CMS is a long time. What we are finding out now though is that folks who kind ...
Ohio State Medical Association Appeal Gets 10 Medical Practices Reinstated With United Healthcare That Had Been Cut From Medicare Advantage Networks This is a small number but it’s better than nothing as it looks like the association did their homework with some obvious extreme cases as m...
Maryland State Insurance Exchange Brings In United Healthcare Subsidiary QSSI To Help Repair The System, Their Main Contractor Is Also Owned By Insurance Company, Insurers Have Truckloads of Subsidiary Companies You May Not Be Aware Of For about the last 4 years I have written many, many posts about the subsidiaries of health insurance companies and where they fit in. As t...
Medical Society of the State of New York Files Lawsuit Asking Court to Intervene To Prevent United Healthcare From Dropping Around 2000 Doctors From Medicare Plans This is a bit of an updated as there has already been one lawsuit filed with other states joining in, more information at the link below. T...
Former CEO of Pfizer Jeff Kindler Joins Biotech Start Up Centrexion We don’t know much about Centrexion Corporation other than to know it has raised several million. Dr. Campbell is a professor of Neurologi...
Hospital Pays For CEO’s Charitable Donations–Reimbursed Like An Expense Account The CEO contributes to the hospital’s foundation and is one of the highest paid public officials and gets more than a million a year in reim...
Merry Christmas From the Dog…Otto And The Medical Quack Ok this is the only time of the year I get to do this. Hope all had a great holiday and this is Otto, my new sentry hard drive guard:) He...
Edward Snowden Christmas Message: ”Privacy Matters And Allows Us To Be Who We Are and Who We Want To Be” (Video) This is the Christmas message delivered to the citizens of the UK on Channel 4. If you have been reading the news, Snowden says his work h...
Dozens Test Positive for Tuberculosis At Las Vegas Hospital This occurred in the pediatrics area of Summerlin Hospital and they didn’t realize the woman being treated had TB and died later, and an au...
Christmas Holiday Dinner Party–How The Conversations Change Over the Years As We Get Older! (Funny! And Truthful) This is so well done and it’s the truth…I don’t know who did the words to Rudolph for this but they did a real good and factual job. You ...
MasterCard As Well As Other Financial Institutions Using Big Data To Get Into Your “Online Pants” As Many Consumers Seem To Be Accidentally And Inadvertently Leaving Their “Internet Fly” Open We all know what that old saying means when someone is trying to get “in to your pants” and now it’s not just people, it’s technology wantin...
Quantitated Justification For Believing Things That Are Not True And Using Mathematical Processes To Fool Ourselves-The Journalistic Bot Functionality Debuts As Media Can’t Resist the Formulas… We are using math to fool ourselves. You don’t have to look far to see abuse of formulas and we are seeing this with some big math project...
Hospital Admissions Down to Lowest Levels In A Decade, This Means Re-Admissions Must Be Down As You Have to Admit To Create More Re-Admit Scenarios Ok so I’m using logic in the headlines here but it’s true. If you are not admitting as many patients then you can’t be re-admitting as many...
One Of The Best Uses of Sensors and Devices I Have Seen, The UDD, Urine Detector Device Being Used To Transition Urinals/Elevator Combinations Into Just Elevators At Mass Transit Facilities (Somebody Pissed In Here) The video is good and you have a couple riders who talk about before and after the sensors were put in place and there’s plenty of signs it...
Oracle Spends $1.5 Billion To Purchase Marketing Company, Responsys And Will Join Oracle Eloqua Cloud Marketing Service This is a big expenditure and if you look at the Responsys website they have some pretty big name clients onboard so in addition to marketin...
Senator Rockefeller Puts the Data Sellers on Notice–We Need to Index and License All Data Sellers to Include Banks, Insurers And Other Companies In Addition to the Data Brokers.. "Underbanked consumers"..who created that term, bankers of course. You hit on one of my campaigns and the poor are hit worse but...
