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Articles Written by: HEATHER WON TESORIERO
In the quaint New England town of Great Barrington, Mass., there’s a group of kindly folks who spend their days churning out body parts– from colons to bladders to beating hearts.
Sounds like a Stephen King story or maybe even a slasher flick, we know. ...
From HEATHER WON TESORIERO,
Wall Street Journal,
17 Jun 2008
A study in the current issue of the Journal of Orthopedic Trauma links Mercks osteoporosis drug Fosamax to a rare type of fracture in the femur. The small, observational study looked at 70 patients who experienced low-energy femur fractures, which ...
From HEATHER WON TESORIERO,
Wall Street Journal,
4 Jun 2008
Out goes the drug, in come the lawsuits.
On April 25, Icelandic generic drug maker Actavis recalled its heart drug Digitek, or digoxin, over concerns that some batches of the medicine may have contained tablets that were twice the normal thickness and ...
From HEATHER WON TESORIERO,
Wall Street Journal,
9 May 2008
Late last night, a pair of congressmen introduced a bill aimed at creating a pathway for approval of generic biotech drugs.
Finally, you say. But, wait, there’s a catch, and it’s a big one. The legislation would also give brand-name biotech drugs an ...
From HEATHER WON TESORIERO,
Wall Street Journal,
14 Mar 2008
You might have been afraid to attend the American Bar Association’s white-collar crime conference last week. But the Health Blog, armed with the First Amendment, endured the topic and the tropical clime of Miami to check out a panel on health-care fraud. ...
From HEATHER WON TESORIERO,
Wall Street Journal,
11 Mar 2008
WSJ’s blog on health and the business of health.
Children whose parents both have Alzheimer’s disease are at a greater risk for developing the degenerative brain disorder, according to the results of a study that appears today in the Archives of ...
From HEATHER WON TESORIERO,
Wall Street Journal,
10 Mar 2008
From the Yikes Dept.: When an enterprising Salt Lake City fourth-grade teacher paid $20 for scrap paper for her students, she walked away with a box of confidential medical records from a Florida hospital, reports the Deseret Morning News.
An ...
From HEATHER WON TESORIERO,
Wall Street Journal,
10 Mar 2008
WSJ’s blog on health and the business of health.
Welcome to the pneumonia wars. Since 2004, hospitals have been required to report publicly how fast pneumonia patients received antibiotics, so-called “door to needle time.” The quality bogey: Do ...
From HEATHER WON TESORIERO,
Wall Street Journal,
10 Mar 2008
It’s been a shiny, happy week for generic drug maker Barr Pharmaceuticals. And it’s only Wednesday.
So far Barr has scored two big court wins and launched a legal counterattack on competitor Watson Pharmaceuticals over Seasonique, Barr’s brand-name ...
From HEATHER WON TESORIERO,
Wall Street Journal,
5 Mar 2008
