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Sanofi (Genzyme) Plans To Appeal FDA Decision to Not Approve Lemtrada For Treatment of Multiple-Sclerosis
Sanofi (Genzyme) Plans To Appeal FDA Decision to Not Approve Lemtrada For Treatment of Multiple-Sclerosis

Back in 2012 the FDA did approve another drug from Genzyme, who is owned by Sanofi for the treatment of multiple-sclerosis and the current drug they are seeing approval for has been approved in Europe, Canada and Australia.  The Genzyme division of Sanofi produced the drug, Aubagio, which is a pill.…

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31Dec2013


Retail DNA SNP Testing Results Compared Can Have A Lot of Variances,  Won’t Be As Accurate As a Full Sequence So Best To Leave It Up to the Professionals..
Retail DNA SNP Testing Results Compared Can Have A Lot of Variances, Won’t Be As Accurate As a Full Sequence So Best To Leave It Up to the Professionals..

The DNA tests the author had done were segments of DNA called SNPs and none were a complete sequence and you can read through her comments and the entire article at the link at the end of this post.  Pretty amazing stuff when you look at how the interpretations read out.  This is the same thing as w…

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30Dec2013


Michelle Snyder, Chief Operating Officer At CMS Who Supervised Roll Out of Healthcare.Gov Announces Retirement, The “Sebelius Syndrome”..
Michelle Snyder, Chief Operating Officer At CMS Who Supervised Roll Out of Healthcare.Gov Announces Retirement, The “Sebelius Syndrome”..

We have one more announcing retirement and 41 years spent at CMS is a long time.  What we are finding out now though is that folks who kind of grew up with jobs as such are ending up behind the “complex 8 ball” with the fact that there’s no “data mechanics logic” to draw upon for decision making. T…

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30Dec2013


Ohio State Medical Association Appeal Gets 10 Medical Practices Reinstated With United Healthcare That Had Been Cut From Medicare Advantage Networks
Ohio State Medical Association Appeal Gets 10 Medical Practices Reinstated With United Healthcare That Had Been Cut From Medicare Advantage Networks

This is a small number but it’s better than nothing as it looks like the association did their homework with some obvious extreme cases as mentioned below with cutting two gastroenterology practices, the only ones in the region from their network.  Since that was the case it appears perhaps the Unit…

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29Dec2013


Maryland State Insurance Exchange Brings In United Healthcare Subsidiary QSSI To Help Repair The System, Their Main Contractor Is Also Owned By Insurance Company, Insurers Have Truckloads of Subsidiary Companies You May Not Be Aware Of
Maryland State Insurance Exchange Brings In United Healthcare Subsidiary QSSI To Help Repair The System, Their Main Contractor Is Also Owned By Insurance Company, Insurers Have Truckloads of Subsidiary Companies You May Not Be Aware Of

For about the last 4 years I have written many, many posts about the subsidiaries of health insurance companies and where they fit in.  As this article states the operations are said to operate separately but one thing they all have in common is that each subsidiary is responsible for putting profit…

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28Dec2013


Medical Society of the State of New York Files Lawsuit Asking Court to Intervene To Prevent United Healthcare From Dropping Around 2000 Doctors From Medicare Plans
Medical Society of the State of New York Files Lawsuit Asking Court to Intervene To Prevent United Healthcare From Dropping Around 2000 Doctors From Medicare Plans

This is a bit of an updated as there has already been one lawsuit filed with other states joining in, more information at the link below.  The Supreme Court made a ruling earlier this year that doctors could group together to litigate and that’s what appears to be happing there.  US Appeals Court …

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28Dec2013


Former CEO of Pfizer Jeff Kindler Joins Biotech Start Up Centrexion
Former CEO of Pfizer Jeff Kindler Joins Biotech Start Up Centrexion

We don’t know much about Centrexion Corporation other than to know it has raised several million.  Dr. Campbell is a professor of Neurological surgery at Johns Hopkins.  Stay tuned and from reading this article their efforts might be in the area of pain therapies, but don’t know for sure.  Since his…

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27Dec2013


Hospital Pays For CEO’s Charitable Donations–Reimbursed Like An Expense Account
Hospital Pays For CEO’s Charitable Donations–Reimbursed Like An Expense Account

The CEO contributes to the hospital’s foundation and is one of the highest paid public officials and gets more than a million a year in reimbursement.  I’d say this lacks a little transparency here.  When you make that kind of money you can’t just “give”…but the pressure is on and it appears the CEO…

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27Dec2013


Merry Christmas From the Dog…Otto And The Medical Quack
Merry Christmas From the Dog…Otto And The Medical Quack

Ok this is the only time of the year I get to do this.  Hope all had a great holiday and this is Otto, my new sentry hard drive guard:) He’s a Weiner dog with a “Collie Coat”…a breed known as a “piebald”…the white comes from a recessive gene and breeders have been breeding them over a number of yea…

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25Dec2013


Edward Snowden Christmas Message: ”Privacy Matters And Allows Us To Be Who We Are and Who We Want To Be” (Video)
Edward Snowden Christmas Message: ”Privacy Matters And Allows Us To Be Who We Are and Who We Want To Be” (Video)

This is the Christmas message delivered to the citizens of the UK on Channel 4.  If you have been reading the news, Snowden says his work has been done, with brining the awareness to the forefront.  He still has more documents he could release but I don’t see any more of consequence to be released u…

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25Dec2013


Dozens Test Positive for Tuberculosis At Las Vegas Hospital
Dozens Test Positive for Tuberculosis At Las Vegas Hospital

This occurred in the pediatrics area of Summerlin Hospital and they didn’t realize the woman being treated had TB and died later, and an autopsy discovered the TB bacteria.  She gave birth to twins and one of the babies died.   Now letters have gone out for all who could have been exposed to come in…

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24Dec2013


Christmas Holiday Dinner Party–How The Conversations Change Over the Years As We Get Older! (Funny! And Truthful)
Christmas Holiday Dinner Party–How The Conversations Change Over the Years As We Get Older! (Funny! And Truthful)

This is so well done and it’s the truth…I don’t know who did the words to Rudolph for this but they did a real good and factual job.  You have to absolutely enjoy this one…”but I had forget what my friends could have or have not”…”Charlie could not have cheddar cuz it clashes with his meds”… “Eve…

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22Dec2013


MasterCard As Well As Other Financial Institutions Using Big Data To Get Into Your “Online Pants” As Many Consumers Seem To Be Accidentally And Inadvertently Leaving Their “Internet Fly” Open
MasterCard As Well As Other Financial Institutions Using Big Data To Get Into Your “Online Pants” As Many Consumers Seem To Be Accidentally And Inadvertently Leaving Their “Internet Fly” Open

We all know what that old saying means when someone is trying to get “in to your pants” and now it’s not just people, it’s technology wanting to get into your pants every time you turn around.  So let’s talk about what happens you leave you fly open as the old story goes you don’t know it’s open unt…

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22Dec2013


Quantitated Justification For Believing Things That Are Not True And Using Mathematical Processes To Fool Ourselves-The Journalistic Bot Functionality Debuts As Media Can’t Resist the Formulas…
Quantitated Justification For Believing Things That Are Not True And Using Mathematical Processes To Fool Ourselves-The Journalistic Bot Functionality Debuts As Media Can’t Resist the Formulas…

We are using math to fool ourselves.  You don’t have to look far to see abuse of formulas and we are seeing this with some big math projects as again the incentive is there to “sell you a formulas that can make nonsense believable”…”the perfect butt” example is great…but think about this and the sim…

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20Dec2013


Hospital Admissions Down to Lowest Levels In A Decade, This Means Re-Admissions Must Be Down As You Have to Admit To Create More Re-Admit Scenarios
Hospital Admissions Down to Lowest Levels In A Decade, This Means Re-Admissions Must Be Down As You Have to Admit To Create More Re-Admit Scenarios

Ok so I’m using logic in the headlines here but it’s true.  If you are not admitting as many patients then you can’t be re-admitting as many right?  Of course I know the numbers and stats do look at how many of those who do get admitted end up back in the hospital and we have heard that drilled down…

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20Dec2013


One Of The Best Uses of Sensors and Devices I Have Seen, The UDD, Urine Detector Device Being Used To Transition Urinals/Elevator Combinations Into Just Elevators At Mass Transit Facilities (Somebody Pissed In Here)
One Of The Best Uses of Sensors and Devices I Have Seen, The UDD, Urine Detector Device Being Used To Transition Urinals/Elevator Combinations Into Just Elevators At Mass Transit Facilities (Somebody Pissed In Here)

The video is good and you have a couple riders who talk about before and after the sensors were put in place and there’s plenty of signs it looks like so all are warned up front not to pee in the elevators.  I can think of some places in New York that might jump all over this, as it’s been years but…

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20Dec2013


Oracle Spends $1.5 Billion To Purchase Marketing Company, Responsys And Will Join Oracle Eloqua Cloud Marketing Service
Oracle Spends $1.5 Billion To Purchase Marketing Company, Responsys And Will Join Oracle Eloqua Cloud Marketing Service

This is a big expenditure and if you look at the Responsys website they have some pretty big name clients onboard so in addition to marketing this might be a good move to ensure and drive more client connections with additional offerings.  Complexities in marketing are growing too . The  Eloqua plat…

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20Dec2013


Senator Rockefeller Puts the Data Sellers on Notice–We Need to Index and License All Data Sellers to Include Banks, Insurers And Other Companies In Addition to the Data Brokers..
Senator Rockefeller Puts the Data Sellers on Notice–We Need to Index and License All Data Sellers to Include Banks, Insurers And Other Companies In Addition to the Data Brokers..

"Underbanked consumers"..who created that term, bankers of course.  You hit on one of my campaigns and the poor are hit worse but everybody is getting it to include what's left of the middle class too.  It's not only the data brokers but gee you have banks making billions selling your data, Larry El…

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20Dec2013
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