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Tips for a Healthy Holiday
From healthy eating to festive drinking and from family gatherings to being on your own, the National Health Service (UK) has you covered with tips for living well over the holidays. Healthy Christmas (UK): http://bit.ly/1eiuHuc (Source: BHIC)
Source: BHIC - December 16, 2013 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: Kate Flewelling Tags: General Source Type: blogs

Jane Sarasohn-Kahn: Woman to Watch 2014
Health Economist and Writer, Health Populi Management Consultant, THINK-Health Co-Founder, HealthcareDIY Follow Jane on Twitter: @healthythinker “Because I believe that health is ‘everywhere’ – ‘where we live, work, play and pray’ – it is not difficult for me to stay inspired: I feel blessed to do what I do for my ‘living’ and take inspiration from everything and everyone, every day.” - Jane Sarasohn-Kahn Inspired by her family and her mother’s work to bring the Salk vaccine to their community during her youth, Jane has a career dedicated to public health and embracing health across every asp...
Source: Disruptive Women in Health Care - December 9, 2013 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: dw at disruptivewomen.net Tags: Career Featured HIT/Health Gaming Innovation Source Type: blogs

Drug Companies In Great Britain: Ease Up, Won't You?
The tension between drug companies and regulatory agencies is constant. It would be there even if no one cared a bit what drugs cost, because you can talk about safety and efficacy without ever mentioning a price. But since we do care about drug prices, and are coming to care more about them with every passing month, the tension is higher than ever. The questions aren't just "Is this drug safe?" or "Is this drug efficacious", or even "Is this drug relatively safe compared to its level of efficacy". You get into the really hard ones like "Is this drug's level of efficacy worth its price?" Great Britain's NICE is at the for...
Source: In the Pipeline - December 5, 2013 Category: Chemists Tags: Business and Markets Source Type: blogs

Send in the Clowns
Cameron argues GSK case in China©GettyChinese premier Li Keqiang and UK prime minister David Cameron at the Great Hall of the People in BeijingDavid Cameron has complained to his Chinese counterparts about their treatment of GlaxoSmithKline, the UK drugs company that has found itself caught in the centre of a storm over allegations it bribed Chinese doctors to sell its medicines.The prime minister raised the issue during meetings with China’s top politicians in Beijing on the first day of a three-day trade mission to the country.A Number 10 official said: “The prime minister discussed British business interests in Chi...
Source: PharmaGossip - December 3, 2013 Category: Pharma Commentators Authors: insider Source Type: blogs

The Courier Tribune Strikes Again: When "Guest" Columnists Overstay Their Welcome
Just when I think I'm out, they draw me back in . . . I have read a lot of garbage in Asheboro’s Courier Tribune over the last nearly 20 years. But a “guest opinion” column written by Robert Morrison, the “colorful” (as dubbed by all the “right people”) former CEO of Randolph Hospital, and published on the day after Thanksgiving, pretty much sits at the top of the stinking heap. I am posting this response on Facebook, and tagging Judge Rob Wilkins, because Morrison’s “opinion” (containing a not-so-veiled, uber-despicable swipe at Rob) deserves a forceful response. But it won’t get one ...
Source: Dr.J's HouseCalls - December 1, 2013 Category: Pediatricians Source Type: blogs