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July 04th 2009

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With the passing of hurricane Ike from the Texas coast, I was reminded of the importance of making sure my online medical record is updated at all times.

On Friday before $The Night of Hurricane Ike\'s Arrival$ hurricane Ike’s arrival, the staff of American Medical ID was given the opportunity to prepare for the storm. One of the top priorities on my family’s list was grabbing all insurance and medical files from our cabinet and placing them in a large plastic bag to prevent potential water damage.

Since time and space is crucial during hurricane preparations, an updated online medical record allows you to feel secure that your medical information is current. Once the files were properly stored, I put on my titanium medical ID and “hunkered” down in our master bathroom to await the pending storm.

The good news! Our home was free of damage as were the homes of many of my colleagues. However, our corporate office experienced some damage due to falling trees on the roof and in the parking lots.

Whether your online medical record is with us, or another program/company, be sure to keep it updated as you never know what type of urgent situation may arise.

-Danielle, Product Manager @ American Medical ID

Thanks to a measure passed in last week's House Appropriations bill for the Department of Health and Human Services, research funded by public tax dollars will soon be available to the public.

Scientists funded by the National Institutes of Health will soon be required to submit copies of their peer-reviewed journal manuscripts to NIH's online archive, PubMed Central. Those manuscripts would be available to the public for free on the Web site within a year of publication. The NIH already has a 'public access' policy in effect that asks NIH-funded scientists to submit their manuscripts on a voluntary basis.

Some people think that the one-year 'embargo' on the release of the manuscripts is too long, delaying citizens' access to important medical information; they are lobbying for a six-month timeframe.

The fiscal 2007 Labor, HHS, Education appropriations bill still has yet to be considered by the full House. The Senate is expected to vote on its Labor, HHS, Education and Related Agencies Appropriations bill later this summer.

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July 04th 2009

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The records of nearly 10,000 patients at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) have been stolen. The records were on a computer and the information taken included Social Security numbers and medical records of patients associated with UAB's kidney transplant program. Those affected by the theft include donors, recipients and potential recipients in the program.

UAB has initiated a criminal investigation through its own police department and is offering to pay for a year's subscription to a credit monitoring service for those affected. UAB claims it has no knowledge to date that anyone has made use of the stolen information, and says it has put additional physical security measures into place.

The Veteran's Affairs Administration had a similar situation with data theft recently, While VA officials have said that no medical records or financial information were among the stolen data, they later reported that some information on the veterans' disabilities may have been taken.

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* 84% of patients with advanced pancreatic neuroendocrine tumors (NET) who took Afinitor® combined with Sandostatin® LAR® experienced tumor shrinkage * Patients with this rare and aggressive form of cancer have limited treatment options...

Though the aminopenicillins and antipseudomonal penicillins have good intrinsic activity against Gram-negative rods, they remain just as susceptible to beta-lactamases as penicillin G. This means that they are not useful against staphylococci or many Gram-negative rods and anaerobes, because these organisms have learned to produce beta-lactamase. In other words, it seemed we learned how to either make a penicillin resistant to beta-lactamase, or how to make it more active against Gram-negative rods, but not both. Beta-lactamase inhibitors counter beta-lactamases; these drugs mimic the structure of beta-lactams but have little antimicrobial activity on their own. They bind to beta-lactamases irreversibly, preventing the beta-lactamase from destroying any beta-lactams that are co-administered and enabling therapeutic beta-lactam to be effective.
When considering the activity of the beta-lactam/beta-lactamase inhibitor combination, re-member that the beta-lactamase inhibitor only frees up the beta-lactam to kill the organism-it doesn’t enhance the activity. Therefore, the combination products are only active against the bacteria that the beta-lactam in the combination has intrinsic activity against. For example, ampicillin/sulbactam is active against beta-lactamase producing E. coli, because ampicillin alone is active against non-beta-lactamase producingE. coli. However, it has no useful activity against Pseudomonas aeruginosa because ampicillin lacks activity against this organism. On the other hand, piperacillin/tazobactam is active against P. aeruginosa because piperacillin alone is useful. Though these drugs have very broad spectra of activity, there are differences among the agents. Keep this rule in mind to set them straight and use zithromax to fight bacterial infection.

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Viagra is being used to treat not only erectile dysfunction, but also pulmonary hypertension, according to a U.S. researcher.

This paper investigates the pricing strategy (perfect flat pricing, perfect monotonic pricing, intermediate) used for multiple dosage medications listed in the Ontario Drug Benefit Formulary. All multiple dosage solid medications containing a single active ingredient newly listed in the Ontario Drug Benefit Formulary between 1996 and 2005 were identified. The relationship between price and dosage was calculated using a previously developed method. 73 multiple dosage medications were introduced. Where medications were equivalent to existing ones in most cases companies followed the pricing strategy used by therapeutically equivalent drugs already in the formulary. Where there were no equivalent products companies did not adopt any particular pricing strategy. There was no difference in the way that companies priced scored tablets versus unscored tablets and capsules or in the way that they priced drugs that had objective measurements of efficacy/effectiveness, for example blood pressure, versus those that did not have these measurements. Concludes that when Monotonic pricing is used it leads to higher expenditures whereas flat pricing results in lower expenditures and offers more predictability in expenditures. Provincial governments should consider requiring flat pricing in return for formulary listing.

LEVERKUSEN, Germany, July 1, 2009 - Bayer Schering Pharma AG, Germany and Bayer HealthCare Pharmaceuticals Inc. together with Schering Corporation have filed a patent infringement lawsuit in the U.S. Federal Court in the District of Delaware against...

Cephalon will ask the FDA to approve its sleep drug Nuvigil for "Eastbound" jet lag. Not Westbound. Eastbound, the company says. Turns out Cephalon flew 427 adults from the East Coast of the U.S. to France to test the drug.

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July 03rd 2009

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Researchers in Edmonton have discovered that Viagra could save the lives of people with a certain type of heart ailment.

A smelly fermented soy product often served with sushi, rice or pork is a potential weapon in the fight against Alzheimer's disease. Known as natto, the goo appears to contain an enzyme that destroys the brain plaques associated with the disease.

Add Big Pharma to the list of corporate magistrates that will faithfully and gradually raise consumer ire – that list already including Congress, Big Oil, telecoms, cable, tobacco, and media – as "the people," i.e., the organic proletariat that operates outside of the boardroom, subvert the previously impenetrable by taking their complaints to YouTube.

"YouTube Gives Straight Dope On Big Pharma"

Whatever YouTube was worth in dollars to Google, multiply that value by the earnestness with which the public is using the site to create their own expository media. AdAge calls them "budding Michael Moores."

If your politics don't allow for Michael Moore love, choose a documentarian you can sink your teeth into.

It's exciting enough to see the realization of the Citizen Press, which is in the end YouTube's and the blogosphere's greatest gift to the public, but it is dizzying to think that pharmaceutical companies, those Goliaths, are worried about little ol' me and you, and the damage we can inflict with a keyboard and digital camera.

Rich Thomaselli says the FDA and Congress aren't as frightening as YouTube – most likely because there is no lobby outside the halls of a website, no fine dining or dinner jackets, no trips to hot spring resorts.

Better, with YouTube, you can upload your message and wait for light bulbs without having to go through the gated media community with its own agendas and entangling alliances. Your message – so long as it doesn't interfere with the RIAA, it would seem – is broadcast loud and clear.

And now, former pharmaceutical sales representatives are returning spoonfuls of medicine, sans the sugar, to their previous employers via video messages on YouTube. This Eli Lilly rep, for example, notes part of his job description:

"We were instructed by our camps to downplay those side effects and to focus on the efficacies of the drug."

The drug he speaks of in this confession is Zyprexa, which was causing a large number of patients to "blimp up," possibly increasing instances of diabetes.

Of course, what can be used for good can also be used for…well, counter-arguments. Nothing bars Big Pharma from producing their own positively spun messages on YouTube as well.

And they've got a nice budget for video advertising, thanks to Congress allowing TV ads at this millennium's start, and thanks to doctors and you and me for paying the pusher what he wants at the pick-up counter. We're paying for their advertising – nice of us, isn't it?