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Image via Wikipedia A few senators are about to introduce legislation to allow the FDA to relax rules on conflicts of interest for its advisors in determining drug, food and device safety. This is not unlike saying that we should allow Wall Street to determine the regulations put in place for the banking […] Image via Wikipedia I am a big fan of some vitamin supplements – notably vitamin D – which many people living urban lives tend to get significantly too little of. But there is some recent bad news about vitamin supplements. The first piece is that a large study suggests that there is a […] Can you play your way to better health? What does it take to get people moving? That was the question kicked around (har!) at the gaming-health session at Health 2.0. Chris Hewett’s demo of MindBloom had the room packed. He began by talking about being motivated by fear, or, instead, being motivated by purpose. You’re […] Adverse Events is a heath-tech start-up so new, they barely exist. Despite that, they’re getting some major results. Today they announced that they found from their early analysis – of the FDA’s own data – that two epilepsy drugs may be more dangerous in pregnancy than their FDA labeling might suggest. They used the FDA’s […] I spent the much of the weekend at a special event preceding this year’s Health 2.0 conference in San Francisco that started last night. This was the Health 2.0 Developer Challenge Code-a-thon. I made a short presentation on Saturday and got asked to be a judge on Sunday. The event runs for two days and […] Image by Sanofi Pasteur via Flickr Last time I wrote about Whooping Cough (Pertussis) was in the Summer of 2010, right in the middle of a big outbreak in California. It turns out that a group did a big study using that very outbreak to look at the Whooping Cough vaccine and its […] |
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