Pfizer has a Gold Mine in Sermo!
"For now, we see in a mirror, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know fully even as also I was fully known."...
Pfizer Facebook a la Sermo?
Pfizer and Sermo -- a Web-based community where physicians share observations from daily practice, discuss emerging trends and provide new insights into medications, devices and treatments -- today announced a "strategic...
Chantix Californication Dreamin’: Viagra II
In the Larry Niven science fiction story, Death by Ecstasy, a belter, Owen Jennison, is found dead on Earth in a locked Los Angeles apartment. His death is an apparent suicide....
Statins and Heart Disease: Look Behind the Curtain
I noticed that Ed Silverman picked up on a statin study published in the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) that suggests statins such as Pravachol -- the drug used in...
Medical Transcript Advertising: A Unique Form of “Non-Personal” Marketing
A few weeks ago, I got a call from Manuel Prado, the CEO of datumRx, a California-based company that specializes in aggregating clinical data and medical records.DatumRx offers a unique service...
Viagra in Liquid Form?
Have you heard this one?Pfizer Corp. announced today that Viagra will soon be available in liquid form, and will be marketed by Pepsi Cola as a power beverage suitable...
Gardasil: Is the Risk of Being “One Less” Worth It?
Merck & Co's new cervical cancer vaccine Gardasil could be linked to as many as 11 deaths since its approval in the market according to FDA documents obtained by US public...
Rozerem: Wall Street Analysts Miss You!
Rozerem is not on equity analysts' radar screens!That's my conclusion after reading the BusinessWeek article "Sleep Drugs Rouse Big Pharma," which talks about current and future insomnia medications. The article summarized...
Gardasil: I Could Become One Less!
That is, one less male that transmits the human papillomavirus -- thought to be a major cause of cervical cancer in women -- if Merck has its way."Men are the key...
Microsoft’s HealthVault Fault
There has been much press lately about Microsoft's newly launched health Vault Web site designed to allow consumers to store and share their "personal health records" (PHRs)".Over the years, several different...
