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WSJ’s blog on health and the business of health.
Pfizer is rummaging through the cabinets of its R&D unit, selling off experimental drugs that don’t fit with the company’s recent focus on fewer diseases. The plan is to sell to other companies about 1 ...
It may seem odd that a group of cancer docs is recommending against a popular treatment for many patients. But figuring out which patients are unlikely to benefit from cancer drugs — which are not only very expensive but can also be toxic — is a high ...
WSJ’s blog on health and the business of health.
There are two big themes in health coverage for the poor in this country right now, and they’re moving in opposite directions.
Theme 1: Strapped states are slashing their budgets for Medicaid — among ...
WSJ’s blog on health and the business of health.
As the business of general surgery gets tougher, many surgeons are switching from traditional practices to locum tenens, temporary jobs where hospitals pay a day rate for general surgeons to come in ...
Once again, science supports what you grandmother told you: A good night’s sleep helps your body fight a cold.
People who averaged fewer than seven hours of sleep per night in the weeks before being exposed to the cold virus were nearly three times as ...
The IG’s office reviewed the paperwork for studies tied to the 118 marketing applications approved by FDA in FY ‘07. They found that 42% of approved applications were missing financial information, and only 1% of investigators disclosed financial ties. ...
WSJ’s blog on health and the business of health.
The economy is crumbling and business are cutting jobs in almost every sector across the country. But health care is hiring.
As the number of employees on nonfarm payrolls fell by more than two ...
WSJ’s blog on health and the business of health.
Abbott Labs is buying Advanced Medical Optics in a deal worth $2.8 billion. It’s Abbott’s latest push into medical devices — a diversification push that looking rather clever.
Advanced Medical Optics, ...
WSJ’s blog on health and the business of health.
The new guy’s going run the FDA, at least for the time being.
In this case that’s Frank Torti, an academic cancer researcher who joined the FDA just last year to take the newly created title of Chief ...
WSJ’s blog on health and the business of health.
It was the mid-90s when the epilepsy drug Sabril first came before the FDA, and it’s not done yet. The latest twist came this week, when an FDA advisory committee voted unanimously to recommend ...
