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Anthem Blue Cross Marketing – Working Overtime to Sell that Expensive Insurance in California

March 10, 2010

I just received this in my email today and for the last month or so, I am getting weekly door hanger advertisements as well, similar to the image below.  With all the recent price increases coming out and talks in…

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DePuy (Johnson and Johnson) Warning Doctors of High Failure Rates – Hip Product Being Phased Out

March 10, 2010

This is an interesting series of events here, and if the failure rate is high, why are the hips being “phased” out, in other words are they still being sold until the end of this year as the article states? …

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Online Screener for Determining Mental Health Issues M-3 Symptom Checklist – Integrates with HeatlhVault

March 10, 2010

Ok I don’t think I am ready for this one, as the power of suggestion could be too strong for me here:)  I certainly would not want to self diagnose when it comes to mental illness and I think over…

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FDA and NIH Working To Accelerate Development of Innovative Medical Technologies – It’s All In the Software

March 10, 2010

Personally from doing this blog it doesn’t appear to me that we have a shortage in the development area, but where the issues lie is in standards and bringing some of this to a better collaborative effort.  You do NOT…

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Biodesign® Advanced Tissue Repair – Cook Medical Regenerative Medicine Biodesign Website Expanded

March 10, 2010

If you check in here often enough you have probably seen information about Cook Medical and last year I had the opportunity to talk with a representative of Cook to find out more about how it works.  We discussed hernia…

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Dendreon “Intellivenge” Algorithmic Software Supporting Administration of Provenge – Seeking FDA Approval by May 1st

March 10, 2010

This company has been in the news for a couple years now and if you haven’t followed this company as far as development, politics, the FDA and more, it has a little bit of everything.  Even with biotech drugs getting…

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The White House Gets An EHR – A Version of ALTHA Developed by the Military

March 9, 2010

This is good, I have said the Executive Branch is moving right along with technology, can’t say the same for the House and Senate.  The House expects their wireless project to take 3 years as an example.  It looks like…

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FDA Gives the Ok for Botox To Be Used for Muscle Spasms In the Wrist and Finger Areas of the Hand

March 9, 2010

This proves interesting as Allergan back in October last year filed a law suit for the “off label” warning to be removed, in other words the “black box” warning.  Allegan is also facing competition in this area that sells the…

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Cosmetic Surgeon Debuts New Restoration Method – Minimally Invasive Body Hair Transplantation With No Scalpel

March 9, 2010

This appears to be some significant help for those who can grow a beard, but yet are bald on top.  From what is shown here it looks pretty good.  The article also states the doctor can also use other body…

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Will the “Stent Wars” Ever End – We Want to Be Able to Afford them Boston Scientific Files Cross Appeal

March 6, 2010

We are back to the same 3 companies again, Johnson and Johnson, Boston Scientific and Abbott, same questions over “patents” and more legal expenses to pass along to consumers in the price of a stent.  If these 3 could settle…

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