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POPSAmerican Drinking water Ok. Let me understand this...I should not drink professionally bottled water because the plastic bottle is toxic...and now I should not drink the tap water because I could be ingesting pharmaceutical waste? hmmmm...feels like a "pick your poison" situation.
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POPSA Win For Regeneron Regeneron's had a good run lately. Analysts at Needham & Co., who say the stock's a buy, write, that the data support a phase 3 program in gout.
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POPS'Green' chemistry may get the midas touch I imagined 'green' chemistry would involve copper but...They think the size of the Gold particles may make them reactive due to quantum effects. I wonder how that theory extends to smaller particles or even mono-atomic (single non-metallic atoms powdered or in suspension) gold. I bet we'll find out.They regularly seem to be finding uses for gold, that are completely unlike any use it has had before. Still, all it can take for any element to be used in a revolutionary way is a new approach. Gold just happens to fascinate us so particularly.
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POPSWhat is a Windfall Profit? Maybe they have in mind profit margins as a percentage of sales. Yet by that standard Exxon's profits don't seem so large. Exxon's profit margin stood at 10% for 2007, which is hardly out of line with the oil and gas industry average of 8.3%, or the 8.9% for U.S. manufacturing (excluding the sputtering auto makers). If that's what constitutes windfall profits, most of corporate America would qualify.Chemicals had an average margin of 12.7%. Computers: 13.7%. Electronics and appliances: 14.5%. Pharmaceuticals (18.4%) and beverages and tobacco (19.1%) round out the Census Bureau's industry rankings. But if 10% is the new standard, the tech industry is going to have to rethink its growth arc. LG, the electronics company, saw its profits grow by 505% in 2007. General Electric profits by investing in the alternative energy technology that Obama says Congress should subsidize GE's profit margin in 2007 was 10.3%, about the same asExxon's.
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POPSBristol/Lilly: The Battle Begins Fighting words. Effient is supposed to be a new-and-improved Plavix; Plavix is the second-best seller in the drug industry, used to prevent heart attacks by keeping blood from clotting.
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POPSWest Baghdad: Al Karkh Maternity Hospital To Open Doors 
said Brig. Gen. Jeffery Dorko, Gulf Region Division commander. “Also, working with our Government of Iraq partners, we have constructed 113 of 132 new Primary Healthcare Centers that will treat 8,000 Iraqis each day. “The security situation has improved greatly,” said Atta. “It was very, very bad here for so long. So bad that I refused delivery of vital medical equipment until it was safe from those who would rob and steel from the hospital.” Dr. Atta was painfully aware of the poor security situation after one large delivery of expensive diagnostic equipment that included x-ray machines and other high-end medical equipment was hijacked. “We hope to open the hospital to inpatient care, surgeries and deliveries within two months,” said Dr. Emad Sabry, an anesthesiologist and one of Karkh’s ten senior physicians. “The hospital still needs additional equipment – all types, from beds to incubators and most importantly the pharmaceuticals."
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POPSHyped up drug studies If you read the full article, some of the methods they use to make drugs look good are shocking. For example, if a drug doesn't reduce deaths from strokes, but does reduce the incidence of disability in survivors, they add the two numbers together in one column and claim that the drug reduces "death and disability" (meaning "death + disability," but people assume it means that the likelihood of death is reduced, too).
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POPSVanda Drug Posts Good Results But the medicine is very similar to Rozerem, which has turned out not to be a big seller. Whether it has much potential as a treatment is debatable.
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POPSWine drinking enforces the gram negative positive... Public use of pharmaceuticals formed in the shape of gram positive bacteria. Effort of consolidating pharmaceuticals under a system of personal detainment. Gram positive bacteria are known to be truly an act or force outside of nature given their occurrence as a hierarchical negated ancillary of the two variety of grapes (specific to wine anchor as Italian enculturation).
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POPSAcadia Schizophrenia Drug Fails Acadia does a nice job not spinning the results. (See the press release below.) The company has another drug, pimavanserin, in trials for psychosis related to Parkinson's. That drug is also being tested for schizophrenia as an add-on to other therapies. What's interesting is that the failed drug, ACP-104, was a metabolite of Clozapine, a very effective antipsychotic with harsh side effects. In theory, using the metabolite should result in a better drug, but it doesn't always work out this way. Sometimes, as in this case, you get something that's not effective at all. That's a painful reminder of how little we know about biology and chemistry and how much sheer luck is still involved in inventing new medicines.
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POPSPharmaceutical Fountain of Youth Could Cost Pennies Five years ago, Sinclair, a Harvard University professor and co-founder of Sirtris Pharmaceuticals, discovered the molecule resveratrol. It targets a gene activated by calorically restricted diets, which have extended the lifespans of laboratory animals from yeast to monkeys.
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POPSCan't Always Believe The Briefing Docs Ligand got hammered because FDA scientists were doubtful about its Promacta. But a panel says the data support its use. Of course, the FDA doesn't have to follow the advice of its panels. Still, things are looking a lot better for Ligand -- proof that even scathing briefing documents don't have to sink a drug. It ain't over 'til it's over.
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POPSOncology on Parade: The Business of Cancer Like Condors viewing from on high, Wall Street analysts have given an overview of their favorite companies with prospects for increased sales from new, successful cancer medicines. It always pays to see the money behind the medicine these days.
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POPSSaving our Planet is Imperative These moves are welcome - now we need the people to endorse the sustainability concept and demand our politicians follow suit. After we stuff this Planet our future is bleak!
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