As ZDNet’s Dan Farber reports today:
I ran across a post from Lauren Turner, who works for Google as an account planner selling ads to the healthcare industry. In the post on what is called the Google Health Advertising blog … she assures potential advertisers that Google can help protect them from the negative impact of [...]

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If you ever wondered whether Big Media was in cahoots with Big Business, check out Maria Bartiromo’s hemming and hawing in covering for the New York Stock Exchange’s banning of Michael Moore.
Moore does some more great evangelizing on our broken healthcare system, by the way.

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Fard Johnmar of HealthCareVox was kind enough to do a Q&A with me about the Healthcare 100. Read it here.

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It might not be as far-fetched as it sounds. According to Jim Edwards at BrandWeek.com:
[Johnson & Johnson] will launch a promotion this month, in which churches, charities and nonprofit groups—such as the Girl Scouts—will be encouraged to sell J&J’s painkillers and cough medicine to their friends and neighbors. For every purchase of a J&J [...]

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What can I say? You know it’s gonna get a little naughty when you’re talking about Big Pharma.
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I truly don’t get the mindless hatred being directed at Michael Moore across certain segments of talk radio, cable news and the blogosphere. I especially loathe when people claim that by making “Sicko,” Moore is demonstrating that he “hates America.”
Here’s how I view “Sicko”:
1. Everyone in this country who isn’t a millionaire should know [...]

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The new diet drug Alli, produced by GlaxoSmithKline, is selling fast. As you’ve probably seen in the news, it’s the first FDA-approved OTC weight-loss pill.
What’s interesting to me is that Alli’s embarrassing side effects have done little to dissuade potential users from buying the product.
Glaxo says to expect “gas with oily spotting” [...]

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MSN has a helpful article on saving money on your prescription medications by splitting pills:
In pill splitting, patients cut larger-dose tablets in half to double the amount of smaller-dose pills they receive in a single prescription — for example, dividing 40-milligram tablets to create twice as many 20-milligram doses for the same price. And since [...]

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Michael Moore has sent out an invitation to pharmaceutical lobbyists to view his film “Sicko” at a free showing later this week. These are the same lobbyists, of course, that he rightly unloads on during the movie for their ethical shortcomings.
According to MSNBC,
Moore is running “Sicko” promotion ads in Washington newspapers listing more [...]

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We’ve been truly gratified by the response to the Healthcare 100. Here are a few comments from health and medical blogs:

Health Care Law Blog: “The list includes many of the top health blogs and is well worth scanning if you are interested in what is happening in the world of health and medical [...]

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