Medical search engine Healthline has a nifty new page that is tracking the flu county by county, and even zip code by zip code, as it begins its annual move through the United States. The data, which comes from 6,000 docs around the country, could...
Swiss pharma company Serono has agreed to pay a $704 million penalty to settle criminal and civil charges of illegally promoting its AIDS drug. From an article in yesterday's Boston Globe...
Yup, just about anything can be outsourced these days. Even medical education. From a press release...
Whoa, here's one I never would have thought of. According to the New York Daily News, the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America commissioned a pulp fiction novel about a Croatian terrorist cell that murders Americans looking for...
Buzzword of the day, courtesy of Buzzwhack.com:
mercky: Pharmaceutically dubious. "Data from the Vioxx trials are in and the results
appear to be mercky."
Nominated by Alan Skolnick