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December 29, 2005

Kudos to Jacob

Jacob's (www.medlogs.com) contributions are well recognized but his latest creation is even bigger: now you can point your RSS aggregators, Google personal and My Yahoo to the RSS feed for Medlogs.com http://www.medlogs.com/site_feed.xml my lurking has obviously ended... this is my fourth post to the blogsphere this week!!

Generic Specialty Drugs?

From the Wall Street Journal Today: Spending on specialty pharmaceuticals -- biotechnology drugs and other expensive medicines prescribed by medical specialists -- is growing twice as fast as traditional prescription drugs, according to Medco Health Solutions Inc., one of the largest pharmacy benefits managers. Insurers project it will grow by between 20% and 50% annually... Sen. Hatch is drafting legislation that would create rules for the Food and Drug Administration to approve generic biotechnology drugs after patents on the original products have lapsed.... The government is two faced... on the one hand they outlaw the importation of drugs from our neighbors to the north and now they are moving towards limiting pharmaceutical company innovation....

December 28, 2005

Need to Know the Time?

http://www.time.gov/timezone.cgi?Eastern/d/-5/java

Cosmetic Boot Camp

see what Dr. Kenneth Beers is up to... http://www.cosmeticbootcamp.com I am hoping to attend the meeting at its new venue. Pleased that the meeting has been moved to Aspen from Jackson Hole, Wyoming

Meebo.com

http://www12.meebo.com/ log onto all of your favorite IM clients in a web based environment