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By Merrill Goozner
Much has been written about the travails of the pharmaceutical industry. Generic competition is reducing profitability as leading blockbuster drugs like Pfizer's Lipitor lose patent protection. Biotech generic competition is on the horizon.
By: Marsha Henderson, M.C.R.P.
For one week in May, the nation celebrates women's health. I often find at these celebrations that no one mentions FDA. This is unfortunate, because throughout its100-year history FDA has played a leading role in advancing women's health.
By Stewart Eisenhart, Emergo Group
A new agreement between the Global Medical Device Nomenclature Association (GMDNA) and a key provider of clinical terminology should further drive global adoption of GMDNA codes among healthcare providers.
The Honorable Margaret Hamburg, Commissioner, FDA and Dr. Christopher Hickey, Country Director, FDA China
By: Christopher Hickey, Ph.D.
I love history. I especially love the story of Meriwether Lewis and William Clark who, in their famed venture to explore the newly-purchased Louisiana Territory at the direction of U.S. President Thomas Jefferson, fashioned a lean and mean team largely consisting of seasoned, highly qualified frontiersmen.
By Merrill Goozner
Over the angry protests of consumer groups, Congress is moving rapidly – and in bipartisan fashion – to give drug and medical device companies an easier path to Food and Drug Administration approval for some products in exchange for sharply higher user fees to fund the agency.
By John D. Halamka, MD
Recently, I've met with several internet startups, web thought leaders, and venture capitalists.
There's one word that's come up in every conversation and it's not Plastics. It's Gamification
Gamification, described by Wikipedia is applying gaming principles to non-gaming applications and processes,
By John D. Halamka, MD
I've written many times about the Bring Your Own Device movement (BYOD) and the need for increasing security controls.
For years, we've controlled device settings on Blackberry devices with the Blackberry Enterprise Server (BES). We force passwords, encryption, and device memory wipes for ten failed passwords so that every user has enterprise enforced security
