READER POLL: Novo Nordisk, A US Subsidiary And Product Liability
Should a foreign drugmaker be held liable for alleged harm caused by one of its drugs when its US subsidiary was responsible for marketing and distribution? That is the contentious issue that Novo Nordisk wants the US Supreme Court to decide after an Oregon court ruled the parent company, which is based in Denmark, can be listed as a defendant – along with its US unit - in a product-liability lawsuit.
In its filing, Novo Nordisk attorneys argue that Oregon courts do not have jurisdiction over a foreign manufacturer simply because its products are sold in the state. By allowing the lawsuit to proceed against the Danish ...
Source: Pharmalot - September 11, 2013 Category: Pharma Commentators Authors: esilverman Source Type: blogs
Prostate Cancer: Lowering Your Risk
By Amy Campbell
After I wrote last week's posting, I came across more information on how nutrition and diet may help lower the risk for prostate cancer, so I'll share that this week. But first things first.
How is prostate cancer diagnosed?
Prostate cancer may be diagnosed during a physical exam; specifically, a digital rectal exam, during which the doctor inserts a lubricated, gloved finger into the rectum to feel for lumps, bumps, hard areas, or anything else unusual on the prostate. If cancer is suspected, your doctor may be able to tell which side it's on and/or if it's spread.
The other way that prostate cancer may ...
Source: Diabetes Self-Management - July 1, 2013 Category: Diabetes Authors: Amy Campbell Source Type: blogs
We can avoid arm swelling after breast cancer surgery – most of the time.
Conclusion: The extensive surgery isn’t needed in these women, which would result in a much lower risk of lymphedema. So as we are learning in many aspects of cancer treatment, less treatment may be just as good and less harmful. (Source: Dr.Kattlove's Cancer Blog)
Source: Dr.Kattlove's Cancer Blog - June 9, 2013 Category: Oncologists Source Type: blogs
Hormone therapy and MI; Durata, Riata ST Optim lead analysis; no benefit of fish oil; long-term PROTECT-AF analysis
(Source: Blogs@theHeart.org)
Source: Blogs@theHeart.org - May 17, 2013 Category: Cardiology Authors: theheart.org Tags: This week in cardiology from heartwire Source Type: blogs
Blind to women’s sexual health
A recent article published in partnership with The Investigative Fund and Newsweek questioned the existence of “female dysfunction,” as if to say, who cares about women’s sexual health? If you can’t “see” it, apparently it doesn’t exist. This is one-sided, inaccurate and disparaging of women.
Why is it that when men are impotent it is taken seriously, but when women suffer from sexual dysfunction it is ridiculed and attributed to “Big Pharma’s” attempt to conjure a condition so they can make and sell a drug? If Pharma is so bad, why do we depend upon them to research and manufacture drugs to prevent a...
Source: Disruptive Women in Health Care - May 16, 2013 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: dw at disruptivewomen.net Tags: Aging Women's Health Sexual dysfunction Source Type: blogs
The Drug Industry’s Invisible Influence on Prescribers: Key Opinion
Leaders and Publication Planning -by Andrea Tarr
Two of the speakers at the ISDB symposium in Vancouver—Sergio Sismondo (Professor of Philosophy, Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario) and Adriane Fugh-Berman (Georgetown University Medical Center, Pharmacology and Physiology, Washington, DC)—highlighted techniques in knowledge manage- ment used by the drug industry to promote their products.
In the pharmaceutical industry, knowledge is a resource to be accumulated, shaped and deployed to best promotional effect.
To this end, the industry produces an abundance of special-purpose knowledge, flooding the markets it is most interested in, and distributing it via its ...
Source: PharmaGossip - May 9, 2013 Category: Pharma Commentators Authors: insider Source Type: blogs
Does Genomic Health Have Another Winner with Oncotype DX Prostate Cancer Test?
Oncotype DX definitely produced a winner with its Breast Cancer Assay. Here are the results of the test according to the company web site:
33% [of tested patients] switched from chemotherapy + hormone therapy to hormone therapy alone based on a low Recurrence Score result
4% [of tested patients] switched from hormonal therapy only to chemotherapy + hormonal therapy based on a high Recurrence Score result
The company is now introducing a new assay for assessing the risk of biopsied prostate cancer (see: New Test Improves Assessment of Prostate Cancer Risk, Study Says). Here's an excerpt from a ...
Source: Lab Soft News - May 9, 2013 Category: Pathologists Authors: Bruce Friedman Tags: Clinical Lab Industry News Clinical Lab Testing Healthcare Business Laboratory Industry Trends Medical Research Surgical Pathology Source Type: blogs
Enjoy your Coffee and Fight Breast Cancer
I started drinking coffee because of breast cancer. After treatment I knew my brain wasn’t functioning quite as acutely as before the diagnosis, so coffee gave me the added ability to focus. I later learned that coffee was helping to address the effects of chemo brain. Now there are other reasons for breast cancer survivors to drink coffee. A study out of Sweden this month finds that women who are on the drug Tamoxifen and drink at least two cups of coffee a day have a reduced risk of recurrence of the disease.
This was a pretty extensive study of 600 women over a 5 year period. CBS reported this wethat researchers found...
Source: Life with Breast Cancer - May 2, 2013 Category: Cancer Authors: Kathy-Ellen Kups Tags: Breast Cancer Source Type: blogs
The Testosterone Trap
Should the Modern Man Be Taking Testosterone?
Is It Low T? .com
By now you've likely seen the commercials. Fit-looking middle-age men telling you how they put on weight, had less energy, and were no longer the sexual tigers they were in their twenties -- until, that is, they started rubbing testosterone gel on their shoulder, upper arm, or abdomen.
Now they feel more like the men they used to be.
The commercials don't mention a 2009 study in the New England Journal of Medicine wherein a group of men on testosterone replacement therapy had more than four times the number of cardiovascular problems -- so many that the s...
Source: PharmaGossip - May 2, 2013 Category: Pharma Commentators Authors: insider Source Type: blogs
HRT for Menopause?
This article I saw on Yahoo News is an example of why patients ought not to go scouring the Internet for all their medical information. The title of the article "Doctors Clear Up Confusion Over Hormone Therapy" is rather misleading. Hormone replacement therapy (i.e. supplement estrogen and progesterone pills) has long been known to be the best intervention for refractory menopausal symptoms. Unfortunately, a Women's Health Initiative study from a decade ago demonstrated that subsets of post-menopausal of women who took hormonal replacement therapy (HRT) medication increased their risk ...
Source: Buckeye Surgeon - March 17, 2013 Category: Surgeons Authors: Jeffrey Parks MD Source Type: blogs
HRT for Menopause?
Thisarticle I saw on Yahoo News is an example of why patients ought not to go scouring the Internet for all their medical information. The title of the article "Doctors Clear Up Confusion Over Hormone Therapy" is rather misleading. Hormone replacement therapy (i.e. supplement estrogen and progesterone pills) has long been known to be the best intervention for refractory menopausal symptoms. Unfortunately, a Women's Health Initiative study from a decade ago demonstrated that subsets of post-menopausal of women who took hormonal replacement therapy (HRT) medication increased their risk o...
Source: Buckeye Surgeon - March 16, 2013 Category: Surgery Authors: Jeffrey Parks MD FACS Source Type: blogs
Accelerated Biological Aging in Women with Alzheimer’s Inhibited by Hormone Therapy
Alzheimer's Reading Room
Healthy menopausal women carrying a well-known genetic risk factor for Alzheimer’s disease showed measurable signs of accelerated biological aging, a new study has found.
However, in carriers who started hormone therapy at menopause and remained on that therapy, this acceleration was absent, the researchers said.
Hormone therapy for non-carriers of the risk factor, a gene variant called ApoE4, had no protective effect on their biological aging.
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Source: Alzheimer's Reading Room, The - February 22, 2013 Category: Dementia Authors: Bob DeMarco Source Type: blogs
Strategies for Common Problems That Strike Women With ADHD
This article discusses four suggestions for managing the hormonal fluctuations of menopause or perimenopause.)
Social Interactions
Women with ADHD also can have a hard time connecting with others. According to Tuckman in his book, people with ADHD “…know how to read social cues, but they don’t do well if they get distracted or caught up in what they are thinking or saying. They may get so absorbed in their next comment that they can barely hold it in until the other person finally stops talking. If they do blurt it out, they may be seen as self-centered or controlling because they don’t give the other person an equ...
Source: World of Psychology - February 4, 2013 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: Margarita Tartakovsky, M.S. Tags: ADHD and ADD Disorders General Self-Help Stress Treatment Women's Issues Acsw Advantage Of Technology Alarms anxiety Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder Adhd Car Windshield Clocks Source Type: blogs
