Health 2.0 (TOKiBiz)
Lots of Health 2.0 articles indicates that it’s heating up (The Health Care Blog)
Frightening & Enlightening (The Art of Marketing)
Health 2.0 for neurologists (Health Business Blog)

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We’re very proud to have upgraded our comparison shopping engine to now include more than 100,000 real-time drug listings from our 36 member pharmacies. That’s up from 30,000 listings when we launched in January 2007.
Two big reasons for the increase: we’ve added more pharmacies, and we’ve updated our backend to make it much [...]

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With all the talk of the dangers of online pharmacies in the media these days, it’s important to remind ourselves that when people are determined to do the wrong thing, they’ll do it with or without the Internet’s help.
I came across a great example of this in the news the other day, where in Prichard, [...]

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Athletes like cyclists, runners and skiers are increasingly turning to Viagra to enhance their athletic performance — although it remains to be seen if the drug is of any benefit to speed and endurance in competition. The trend is so new that anti-doping authorities are only beginning to study the drug.
CTV.ca reports:
Viagra … was [...]

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Alzheimer’s at 35 (Secret Waves)
Microsoft Discusses SharePoint and Clinical Trials at DIA (Pharma Manufacturing)
Coming Soon to a Childs Stomach Near You… (Not Totally Rad)
Older women and yoga (HEALTH’Sass)

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The following stats come from a new study of Internet pharmacies by the European Alliance for Access to Safe Medicines, as reported by the National Center for Policy Analysis:
1. 62 percent of medicines bought online are fakes.
2. 96 percent of the virtual pharmacies under study operate illegally.
3. 90 percent of Web sites supply prescription-only drugs [...]

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The last time we heard about the Web host Go Daddy going before Congress, it was the fictional Nikki Cappelli (model Candice Michelle) in one of Go Daddy’s infamous Super Bowl commercials. In the ad, Cappelli’s tank top strap breaks as she appears before a committee discussing censorship.
Well now, Go Daddy has headed to [...]

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Globalized generics plague Big Pharma (Fierce Pharma)
FDA, Big Pharma Way Behind On Promised Postmarket Safety Studies (Novus)
Big Pharma spent $3.6 Mil in lobbying the Federal Government.. (The Sirens Chronicles)
Big Pharma’s Big Slump (The Wall Street Journal)

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In this informative lecture video from the “Pharmacy 101″ class at the University of California-San Francisco, Joe Guglielmo, professor of clinical pharmacy, explores antibiotics and antibiotic resistance. Then (at about the 30-minute mark), Lorie Rice discusses problems with medication errors.

If you think college lectures are dry, you won’t be interested. But it’s geared [...]

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Unfortunately, when we are contemplating taking a new prescription medication, too many of us don’t think about possible harmful interactions with the other drugs we’re taking. We treat the risk like all the fast-paced warnings at the end of pharmaceutical commercials — we ignore them.
That’s dangerous — and in a world where [...]

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