Author Archives for Jennifer Miller
Doctors’ radical plan to tackle organ shortage: Patients could be kept alive to become donors and hearts retrieved from newborn babies in controversial BMA proposals
[Denis Campbell, Guardian] Patients could be kept alive solely so they can become organ donors, hearts could be retrieved from newborn babies for the first time, and body parts could be taken from high-risk donors as part of an urgent medical and ethical revolution to ease Britain’s chronic shortage of organs, doctors’ leaders say .
Hearts [...]
Medicine used as a weapon of persecution in Syria -MSF
[Trust.org] The Syrian regime is conducting a campaign of unrelenting repression against people wounded in demonstrations and the medical workers trying to treat them, the international medical humanitarian organisation Médecins Sans Frontières MSF (Doctors Without Borders) said today.
While MSF cannot work directly in Syria, it has collected testimonies from wounded patients treated outside the country [...]
Bayer’s CEO Accuses Patients of Being Ungrateful B*stards! We Cured Cancer, Dammit!
As a rule I doesn’t usually re-post blog entries, however this one by pharmamkting is an interesting read. ——
[pharmamkting] That’s my takeaway from this comment by Marijn Dekkers, “outspoken” head of Bayer Pharmaceuticals, in which he not only disses patients but claims to have cured cancer!
“If you have cancer, you get a pharmaceutical product, and your cancer [...]
Climbing Mount Publishable: The old scientific powers are starting to lose their grip
[Economist] TWENTY years ago North America, Europe and Japan produced almost all of the world’s science. They were the aristocrats of technical knowledge, presiding over a centuries-old regime. They spent the most, published the most and patented the most. And what they produced fed back into their industrial, military and medical complexes to push forward [...]
Toxic Sugar: Should We Regulate It Like Alcohol?
[huffingtonpost] Should sugar be regulated like alcohol?
That’s the premise of a new position paper, published today in the journal Nature by three leading obesity researchers from the University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine.
They argue that added sugar in all forms — sucrose and high-fructose corn syrup alike — is as perilous to [...]
Fake and poor quality malaria drugs risk crisis in Africa, warn scientists. Report calls for measures to prevent circulation of counterfeit and sub-standard medicines that threaten millions of lives
[theGuardian] Hopes of controlling malaria in Africa could be wrecked by criminals who are circulating counterfeit and substandard drugs, threatening millions of lives, scientists are warning.
They are calling for public health authorities to take urgent action to preserve the efficacy of the anti-malarials now being used in the worst-hit areas of the continent.
There has been [...]
FDA would collect millions in fees to speed review of traditional and biotech generic drugs
[Washington Post /AP] The Food and Drug Administration would collect hundreds of millions of dollars in new fees from pharmaceutical companies to help speed up the review of generic drugs, under an agreement with industry released by the agency on Friday.
The user fee proposal is one of three such agreements that the agency is submitting [...]
George Washington Researchers Find that a Smoking Cessation Benefit Can Save Money for Medicaid
[Newswise] New research by the George Washington University School of Public Health and Health Services indicates that including comprehensive tobacco cessation benefits in Medicaid insurance coverage can result in substantial savings for Medicaid programs. The study, titled “The Return on Investment of a Medicaid Tobacco Cessation Program in Massachusetts,” published by the open access journal [...]
Soon, $1,000 Will Map Your Genes .
[WSJ] The quest to harness the power of DNA to develop personalized medicine is on the threshold of a major milestone: the $1,000 genome sequencing.
Life Technologies Corp., a Carlsbad, Calif., genomics company, plans to introduce Tuesday a machine it says will be able to map an individual’s entire genetic makeup for $1,000 by the end [...]
Senator Warns FDA on Danger of Newest Painkillers
(PharmPro / AP) — Following fatal shootings in two New York pharmacy robberies, a U.S. senator is warning that a new batch of “super painkillers” now under review could force repeats of recent violent robberies that left six people dead.
“It’s tremendously concerning that at the same time policymakers and law enforcement professionals are waging a [...]
