The drug was only approved a year ago so the numbers of people with clots and other issues arose quickly. A few people died after only taking the drug for a couple of weeks
and many had no risk factors with heart disease. The side effects were much worse than imagined and the FDA will research to see if there is in fact any smaller group of individuals that the drug could still help. 8 percent is a pretty high number for developing blood clots and it was recently updated by the FDA to 48 percent with a group of patients studied over a year.
The treatment was not cheap either at around $100k a year and it was meant to be given to patients with a certain genetic mutation that made their cancer resistant to other drugs. BD
Sales of a promising leukemia drug, Iclusig, are being suspended because of “the risk of life-threatening blood clots and severe narrowing of blood vessels,” the Food and Drug Administration said on Thursday.
The drug, also known as ponatinib, has been linked to severe and sometimes fatal heart attacks and strokes, blindness and loss of blood flow in the extremities serious enough to require amputation. In some cases, the problems or deaths occurred as soon as two weeks after patients began taking the drug, the agency said in a statement. It also said some of the people affected had no risk factors for heart disease, and some were in their 20s.
Iclusig was approved less than a year ago to treat chronic myeloid leukemia. The risk of blood clots was known, and the label carried a warning. But over time, the problems turned out to be much worse than they appeared in the studies performed before the drug was approved. In those studies, 8 percent of people taking the drug had serious blood clots in their arteries, and 3 percent had blood clots in veins.
is the reality of what is happening today all around us and the “bliss” or inability of our lawmakers all over the place, going beyond Congress to grasp. First of all we had the story about consumers getting their policies cancelled, well insurers have been doing this for years, happened to me years ago before Obama was President as insurers do have complex math formulas and they end and create new policies all the time. The new ACA law had certain requirements to be met to avoid having more “under insured” types of consumer policies issued and that’s the rub. You can read more at the link below.
I had my own questions here as far as timing and the fact that both 
a big sum of money but for a hospital it is big. So keep that in mind that all hospitals are getting paid 2% less on their Medicare claims and have been for months. In addition they have to deal with the outpatient/inpatient billing nightmare as even as a patient, you don’t know if you are admitted or not and it’s complex billing situation and hospitalists deal with it all the time.
United is seeing it that way with firing doctors who take care of Medicare Advantage patients so the scramble begins with doctors and patients. United is firing them, and now Aetna is wanting to expand their Medicare Advantage network in the same area United is firing doctors, does that make sense when Aetna filed a form with the SEC stating that the rates for Medicare Advantage were going to be a challenge? Look at them with their models at times that make no sense. 
watch the first video on how you get sucked in with all of this and insurers do it to elevate profits and I have no problem with companies make a dollar but not this way with 
diabetes and wanting to further genetic research and this was one example he used to explain why he was donating the money. He also stated that genetic research needs to be universal as well. His fortune came from the telecommunications industry. If you are not familiar with the Broad Institute the link below will give you a good idea as to what goes on there. Math models and algorithms are right on the top of the list with research for sure. Nice video with Dr. Lander who is referenced in this article. He runs the place. 
to like us on Facebook, yes the real Sebelius is stuck on Facebook contests more than once….
Again the Affordable Care Act wanted to ensure that consumers had a policy that in fact offered “enough” coverage as to the parameters established. I can’t remember how many articles I have read about “the under insured” which is just about as big of a problem as the non insured. I know all the articles have been out there with the big bang effect and are impacting everyone differently.
treat you don’t want the “under insured” patients either as another note as 
damage but at least she survived where many did not. She has gone through months of treatment and the stress from the bills is mounting and she has gone through her life’s savings! The patient said in an interview, they made me sick and I should not have to pay a penny and she is right. She has to sue and has no other choice. 
prescription market for years. the drug belongs to a class of drugs called opiates or opioids because they are chemically similar to opium. Morphine, heroin, oxycodone, codeine and methadone are in the same family of drugs.
functionalities of the entire project. Right now QSSI has created the Federal Hub and 
reports, this is United as well. I still see the old PacifiCare on there which United bought and I might guess there’s a reason for it with perhaps some unsettled business as otherwise it’s been pretty well absorbed and all employers in the OC had to change from their PacifiCare contracts to United contracts. I’ve blogged about others you don’t see here to where they own 51% controlling interest of several partner owner ships and then 
done in India and last why these two platforms were never mentioned as they would be “HUGE” time savers and the CGI project is already using Oracle ID and Access manager which works with Oracle Fusion Middleware which can be used, and probably already is used in government installations to help old legacy systems scale and fetch data. With the platforms, all you need to do is write apps for the integration built in and add some code and scripting to complete all. 
numbers at folks right and left to get them to buy, but not “canned” and like a broken record as I knew my product too and if you don’t then all you have are the “canned” lines to fall back on. Ok enough of that..and we could also use a break on everyone’s addiction to “how many people have signed up, reported in real time, every couple days for an update is fine. I was right too in 2009 that “data addiction and abuse is going to be the next and upcoming 12 step program” for many (grin). Yes we do have those spasmodic algorithms and data with lack of integrity floating around out there. 
Continua Version One Design Guidelines. 
this more what a veterinarian would be using. BD 
accurate and reliable Model 3230 is one of the first medical devices to incorporate Bluetooth Smart (low energy) wireless technology. 
in patients who are not candidates for surgery to replace a heart valve. 30 other countries outside the US have been using the device to treat mitral regurgitation when the left chambers don’t close all the way. When this occurs the heart has to work harder. 
Many have said, 
the investment circle and not short of being a soap opera as well. The company has been burning through money and reducing jobs for a while now, a far cry from where the company was when their new treatment technology first appeared. The drug is expensive and now faces competitors such as J and J with their prostate cancer drug, Zytiga which is a pill and a simpler delivery process. In addition J and J recently purchased another biotech company, Aragon which is also developing a prostate cancer drug which will eventually work with Zytiga and is still working in the pipeline. 
big business profits with Walgreens making about a billion a year selling data. Of course you can opt out, same old same old. Here’s a video and you should read the comment on YouTube…here it is…and it is a good statement as consumers are getting tired of all the procedures to follow for each company, each website and so on…gee for a short minute there I thought I was talking about doctors and electronic medical records…same issues….
is bought, well it’s up to them what they do and you are SOL for the most part, it’s like cookie cutter statements anymore. The system also talks about connecting to devices and has a picture of a watch on the site. After reading this, what do you really own? Give me a break. 
for monitoring (prisoners) was not being done as some of the individuals billed for and listed were dead…amazing when it comes to billing how with technology folks can still make money and keep one technically alive on the web and where ever data is sold and accumulated…flawed data for profit. Actually back in 2011 I wrote about this as one of the Chapters of the Killer Algorithms..they didn’t kill anyone but produced profits from dead people in the case of Serco. BD 
and is HIPAA compliant, what ever that is any more (grin).