Archive for February, 2009
Compensation and Bailouts
The current economic situation in our country is pretty ugly. Stimulus packages, bailouts, failures, bankruptcy…they all seem to be in the headlines in some form or another these days. I was browsing through the stories on FierceBiotech and FiercePharma and it seems that neither industry has been immune to the deluge of bad news, regardless [...]
Wii Fit: Does it Work?
When I got my Wii for Christmas, I was so excited. I had been a regular user of the elliptical machine down in my basement because it offered the opportunity to catch up with movies I hadn’t seen in the theater while I exercised. The problem was, after having kept it up for about a [...]
ATryn: Biotech Trailblazer
A little over a year ago, GTC Biotherapeutics successfully won orphan drug status for a new product they were developing called ATryn. The drug is intended to treat people suffering from a rare disease called “Hereditary Antithrombin Deficiency,” a genetic disorder leading to poorly functioning or diminished levels of antithrombin, a condition that can lead [...]
Superbugs Rising
My son has had a persistent cough for about 3 weeks now. We took him to the doctor a week into it, and they didn’t find anything for which they could prescribe medication; they believed he had some sort of virus that had to work itself through his system. Cut to yesterday, when we noticed [...]
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