martes, 23 de febrero de 2010

Citario/El dijo que...STEPHEN M. STAHL











Yo creo que la clave está en ser trasparente, no esconderlos (conflictos de interés con los laboratorios) . Hay mucha gente que cree que no se debe de hablar con la industria farmacéutica, pero es un error porque ¿cómo se puede aprender entonces de los nuevos medicamentos? Si uno odia a los laboratorios y cree que es una industria diabólica y que todo debe de ser hecho desde la Fundación Bill Gates, bien, pero la realidad es que, en ese caso, no habría fármacos. Y sí, los laboratorios tienen conflictos, tienen a profesionales comprados y cometen excesos, no hay duda, pero hay que convivir con ellos y, eso sí, aceptar las críticas. Todos tenemos compradores, el problema es cuando se esconde y cuando influye en el trabajo.
Stephen M. Stahl entrevistado por Ainhoa Iriberri
PUBLICO, Domingo 21 febrero 2010

HORIZaNT pierde el horizonte...y las piernas seguiran inquietas.

GlaxoSmithKline and XenoPort, Inc. Wednesday received a Complete Response letter from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) regarding the New Drug Application (NDA) for Horizant™ (gabapentin enacarbil) Extended-Release Tablets, an investigational non-dopaminergic treatment for moderate-to-severe primary Restless Legs Syndrome (RLS).

A Complete Response letter is issued by the
FDA’s Center of Drug Evaluation and Research when the review of a file is completed and questions remain that preclude the approval of the NDA in its current form. GSK and XenoPort are currently evaluating the Complete Response letter, in which the FDA indicated that a preclinical finding of pancreatic acinar cell tumors in rats was of sufficient concern to preclude approval of Horizant
for RLS at this time.
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Expresión para todos...

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lunes, 22 de febrero de 2010

Humor...es lunes: Investigación clínica/ "Voluntariado"



La incorporación de pacientes/voluntarios a protocolos de investigación clínica abre un cúmulo de oportunidades de ganar dinero ahora que las cosas se estan poniendo "duras" y "cuesta arriba". (Años atrás la oportunidad era vender sangre...)

Revisamos la literatura internacional para ver algunas que, por ahora, estan ya agotadas pero que deben movernos a estar "al loro" por lo que pudiera presentarse...


En este caso creo no hemos perdido nada pues, para incorporarse, deberias ser monja y, por tanto, "profesar"...

Con todo lo que ello implica...
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En línea con la anterior propuesta pero con más riesgo...

Ya no es un "dulce convento" sino la selva colombiana ("un estudio realizado con 21 ex miembros de las guerrillas colombianas") y con el riesgo de las secuelas mentales/ideológicas que la experiencia puede acarrear...

Y, encima, si luego no te liberan...
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Sin lugar a duda, la más apetecible para el "voluntariado":

"Fancy a free holiday in Mexico, all expenses paid? Or perhaps Guatemala appeals? Flights and hotel accommodation up to the value of €1,600 (£1,400) are on offer for 900 volunteers who are prepared to test a remedy for one of the most common holiday afflictions – travellers' diarrhoea."

"We want recruitment to pick up during the [Mexican] wet season – spring to summer in the UK – because incidence rates [of diarrhoea] are highest then."

Interesante aunque, en el fondo...,"una diarrea"(con perdón por lo escatológico, es que...).

Pero tampoco debiera ser preocupante:


"Will be expected to spend days in hotel bathroom with very upset stomach"

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Y, además, tus aventuras aparecerían en la prensa (clínica) internacional


"In The Lancet study, 21 per cent of those given the placebo had a moderate to severe attack of diarrhoea compared with 5 per cent of those who received the vaccine."


Hasta la próxima...

GENERICOS: "Generando" conciencia (I). Crecen y crecen más que...

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THE GLOBAL generic drug industry has witnessed an almost decade-long sales euphoria and volumes and sales growth of prescription generic drugs continued to increase in 2009.

In the 12 months ended September 2009, global prescription sales growth of generic drugs climbed by 7.7%, up from 3.6% in 2008, according to US-based health care information and consulting company IMS Health. This compares with the 5.7% growth seen within the overall global pharmaceutical universe last year, says Doug Long, vice-president, industry relations at IMS Health.

During that 12-month period, global generic products generated $83bn (€59.8bn) in audited sales, according to IMS. US market data provider BCC Research estimates that the global market was worth $84bn in 2009.

"The global industry virtually had 10 years in a row of good growth - not only in prescriptions but also in sales," says Long. "All the dynamics of the generics industry were strong and it seems to have even prospered more during the economic slowdown."

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AT THE TOP
The top four global generics manufacturers - Teva, Sandoz, Mylan and Watson - also accounted for 47% of the US market as of 2009, according to IMS. The top 10, which also includes Canada's Apotex, Pfizer's US-based generics business Greenstone, Qualitest Products, Mallinckrodt and Actavis US, all US, and Lupin Pharmaceuticals, the US subsidiary of India-based Lupin, accounted for 66% of the market.

"This means there are still many players out there that are pretty small and would be ripe for acquisitions or mergers," notes Long. "Everybody expects that there will be consolidation within the generic drugs industry as smaller producers are experiencing significant margin pressure in this environment."

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Company branded generics


Some prestigious brand-name pharmaceutical companies that once looked askance at the high-volume, low-cost business of generic drugs are now becoming major purveyors of generic medicines.

Just don’t call them no-name drugs.

Giants like Sanofi-Aventis and GlaxoSmithKline are not looking to enter the commodity generics market in the United States, where chain pharmacies often determine which generics they offer based on the lowest available price — and where consumers often view generic makers as interchangeable.

Instead, the big drug makers are pursuing a growing consumer base in emerging markets like Eastern Europe, Asia and Latin America where many people pay out of pocket for their medicines but often cannot afford expensive brand-name drugs.

And, in some emerging markets, where the fear of counterfeit drugs or low-quality medicines runs high, consumers who can afford it are willing to pay a premium for generics from well-known makers, industry analysts said. These products are known as company-branded generics, or branded generics. They carry the name of a trusted local or foreign drug maker stamped on the package, seen as a sign of authenticity and quality control.

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Branded generics may appeal to leading drug makers because they represent a hybrid of the generic and name-brand models — allowing drug makers to use their existing commercial distribution system and marketing skills to sell premium-priced generics as if they were brand-name drugs, said Ronny Gal, an analyst at Sanford C. Bernstein & Company.

Under this approach, manufacturers or distributors advertise branded generics. Company sales representatives visit doctors and pharmacists to market them. And, in emerging markets where government health coverage and private insurance are less common, consumers who pay out of pocket for their own medicines would rather spend on names they can trust, Mr. Gal said in an interview last month.

“Patients prefer brands,” he wrote in a note to investors last year, “and as long as they are the main payers, they will continue to use branded generics.”

Still, branded generics may not be a diversification strategy for the long term.

Some companies are moving into branded generics as a short-term tactic to make up for revenue shortfalls and capture near-term growth in emerging markets, Mr. Gal said.

Más...


Ahora que vamos ya en el 3.0...recuerda el 1.0 y el 2.0







Descargalo...

MEDICAL BROCHURES: Spimaco's Snafi*





Ref. http://medical-brochures.blogspot.com



(*) Spimaco´s Snafi: Genérico de Cialis (Tadalafino) Saudi Arabia.

domingo, 21 de febrero de 2010

Muere Ariel Ramirez. Se vá en busca de la huella...

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A la huella, a la huella
José y María,
por las pampas heladas
cardos y ortigas.

A la huella, a la huella
cortando campo,
no hay cobijo ni fondo
sigan andando.

Florecita del campo,
clavel del aire,
si ninguno te aloja
¿dónde naces?

¿Dónde naces, florecita,
que estás creciendo,
palomita asustada,
grillo sin sueño?

A la huella, a la huella
los peregrinos,
préstenme una tapera
para mi Niño.

Ariel Ramirez

GENERACIÓN Y: La información proscrita

Rumores que se propagan, murmullos convertidos en notas oficiales y periódicos que cuentan –varias semanas después- lo que ya sabe todo el país. Hemos pasado del racionamiento informativo a un verdadero “destape” que fluye en paralelo a la censura de los medios oficiales.

Nuestra glasnost no ha sido impulsada desde las oficinas y los ministerios, sino que ha surgido en los teléfonos móviles, con las cámaras digitales y las memorias extraíbles. El mismo mercado negro que nos ha abastecido de leche en polvo o detergente, ahora ofrece conexiones ilegales a Internet y programas televisivos que llegan a través de las prohibidas antenas parabólicas.
De esa manera hemos sabido de los sucesos ocurridos en Venezuela durante la pasada semana.
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El caudal de informaciones se ha quintuplicado, aunque eso no obedezca a una decisión gubernamental de proveernos de mayores referencias, sino al desarrollo tecnológico, que nos ha permitido saltarnos los cintillos triunfalistas y los noticiarios vacíos de contenido. Cada vez dependemos menos de la papilla masticada e ideologizada de los telediarios....

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La pantalla de un Nokia o un Motorola, la brillante superficie de un Cd o el minúsculo cuerpecito de una memoria flash, hacen jirones nuestra desinformación. Al otro lado de ese velo de omisiones y falsedades –creado durante décadas- hay una extensión desconocida y nueva, que nos asusta y nos atrae.

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Dupuytren o....comunicación no verbal? (0)








Dupuytren...?

Se puede solucionar sin salir del país...

O...peineta?

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sábado, 20 de febrero de 2010

Eramos pocos (en Facebook) y...""parió" la FDA...

This is the official FDA Fan Club. Everyone who is a "fan" of the Food & Drug Administration is welcome to join and post their feelings about the FDA. Hopefully, this will help the FDA become a better organization by seeing what its "fans" have to say!



...y con "cheerleaders"


Se incorporarán todos los "lobbystas"?

Seguirá sus pasos la EMA (antes EMEA)?