Tips for an optimal annual physical exam
Many people schedule their annual physical for either the end of the year or the start of the year. Your doctor undoubtedly delegates most of the tests and data collection to the staff, and they are...
View ArticleThe 8000% price premium to Lucentis over Avastin
July 15, 2009, the Healthcare Channel The 8000% price premium to Lucentis over Avastin The Healthcare Channel previously exposed a 1000% price increase on a generic drug made by Actavis and how it was...
View ArticleDoctor violates embargo rules
April 28, 2010 The CATT trial data (Lucentis v Avastin in wet AMD) were surprisingly released from embargo today ahead of schedule. It has the press world “In a tizzy” according to one media relations...
View ArticlePhilip Rosenfeld, MD, PhD: The Lucentis v Avastin CATT trial
Dr. Rosenfeld discusses the ongoing CATT trial (Comparison of Age-Related Macular Degeneration Treatments Trials: Lucentis-Avastin Trial) that is testing whether cheaper off-label intravitreal Avastin...
View ArticlePhilip Rosenfeld, MD, PhD: The history of intravitreal Avastin for AMD
Dr. Rosenfeld discusses the series of events that led him to begin using off-label intravitreal Avastin to treat wet AMD rather than use the more expensive Lucentis....
View ArticleThe new hybrid career as doctor/corporate-lobbyist
Update: February 22, 2012 An FDA advisory committee of doctors voted to approve the Vivus drug Qnexa despite the unknown risk to heart valves and know risk of birth defects. David Letterman’s doctor,...
View ArticleThe inadequate FDA medical device safety surveillance system: a case study
By Steven Greer, MD January 25, 2012 I have worn contact lenses for more than twenty years without any problems. But recently, my eyes began to disagree with them. In the course of investigating the...
View ArticleMedical Tip: How to get special glasses for computer screen distances, for cheap
March 14, 2014- By Steven E. Greer, MD With remarkable regularity across all populations, the inner lens of the eye loses flexibility after age 45 and people begin to have trouble reading up close...
View ArticleOh my god, I have a disease!
March 21, 2014- This DTC TV drug ad medicalizing a non-disease really struck us as egregious
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