For about a year and half now, Dr. Robert Jarvik, inventor of the artificial heart, has been a paid endorser for the cholesterol-lowering drug Lipitor. Pfizer keeps using Jarvik despite his being branded a “fop” who goes over like a lead balloon by the all-powerful John Mack. He’s also been called “Gollum-y” by [...]

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Vote Viagra! (Pharmagossip)
Graveyard shifts can bring on the actual grave? (GruntDoc)
The Profit Motive and the Placebo Effect (World Health Care Blog)
Public Image of the Industry Has Cost Pharma $1 Trillion (On Pharma)

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Here’s a thoughtful blog post and accompanying YouTube video by Deepak Singh on the topic of “open source intelligence” and its applications in the pharmaceutical industry. Check it out.

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Check out the trailer for The Eye, in which Jessica Alba plays
a beautiful young concert violinist named Sydney Wells. Blind since childhood, Sydney undergoes a corneal transplant in both eyes that allows her to see for the first time in years. But when she begins to see things — freaky things — she suspects her [...]

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It looks like acquisitions continue in the Health 2.0 area.
ValleyWag says that Revolution Health will announce later this week its plans to acquire fitness planning Web site SparkPeople and either acquire or settle for a majority investment in HealthTalk, another health information site.
Steve Case’s property recently tightened its belt when it laid off 60 workers [...]

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Oxfam Rips Pharma A New One (Pharmalot)
If You Don’t Feed Them, They Won’t Come–the Minnesota Miracle? (Hooked: Ethics, Medicine, and Pharma)
The Devil’s Guide To Modern Medicine (Scamtypes)
Is it Medical Education, or is it Pharmaceutical Marketing? - the Case of “Dr Drug Rep” (Health Care Renewal)

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Government Healthcare IT interviewed Dr. Deborah Peel, the leader of Patient Privacy Rights.
In the podcast she says that Microsoft’s HealthVault concept, which would allow a consumer control over their health information, is better than the data mining approach that others have recommended.  HealthVault also has external auditors to ensure privacy.
It’s certainly worth a listen for those [...]

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TagCrowd is a great tool that lets you input words from any source, and it spits out a tag cloud that lets you visualize word frequencies. We thought it would be interesting to take a bunch of recent posts from some top pharma blogs to see what’s foremost on their minds. Among the [...]

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The most searched-for drug on eDrugSearch.com for the past two months has been Abilify, which treats the symptoms of psychotic conditions such as schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. Initially approved in November 2002, more than 12.5 million prescriptions have been written for Abilify in the United States as of June 2007.
Expect those numbers to [...]

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