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Longtime Teva chair resigns, putting his vice in charge

There’s more movement in the Teva Pharmaceuticals executive suite. The world’s biggest generics maker announced that chairman Eli Hurvitz, who had been on medical leave, is resigning his position to focus on his recovery. So Teva tapped vice chairman Dr. Phillip Frost to serve as chairman of the board. Frost…

Chinese healthcare spending up 50%

It’s not just Big Pharma looking to a fast-growing China for help in growing its own bottom line. Chinese pharmaceutical companies are working toward the same thing. And for both groups, the optimism could be justified. In fact, Chinese pharma stocks were up yesterday on news out of China’s annual…

GSK’s India strategy could come full circle

More Indian news from GlaxoSmithKline.

Product Review: Act+Fast Anti-Choking Trainer

Product Review: Act+Fast Anti-Choking Trainer is a post from: Everyday EMS Tips With a sharp inward and upward thrust – just like I have been teaching for nearly ten-year, but have never actually done – the foreign body ejected from the “airway” and flew about five feet across the room….

J&J relied on geriatrics to grow Risperdal

Some newly released court documents suggest that Johnson & Johnson was leaning heavily on the geriatric market to boost sales of its atypical antipsychotic Risperdal at a time when federal regulators were warning the company against claiming the drug was safe and effective in elderly patients, Bloomberg reports. The documents,…

New BMS CEO gets 89% raise

Bristol-Myers Squibb CEO Jim Cornelius didn’t fare too badly during his last full year on the job: According to the company’s preliminary proxy statement, his pay dropped a bit, to $18.2 million from $19.7 million. But it’s still

Drug and Alcohol Process of “Admission”

During the process of what I call “Admission” comes the task of making the decision to change. On a basic level, before a person can decide to change, an evaluation of their circumstances is necessary. Benjamin Franklin used a technique whenever a major decision was at hand. What old Ben…

Alzheimer’s and the Dreaded Bowel Movement

I already wrote about how I beat urinary incontinence and bladder infections. That solution is not perfect. Poop. No enema, no pills, no laxatives. How I won the Poop-E war….. By Bob DeMarco Alzheimer’s Reading Room I really wanted to entitle this article Alzheimer’s and the Magic Elixir. However, I…

Ten Tips For Maintaining Sexual Integrity

Tip 1: GET REAL Recognize that sexual temptation is unavoidable in our sex-obsessed culture. Erotic images on billboards, films, television and a thousand other stimulants are bombarding you daily. Being a Christian doesn’t exempt you from temptation. The godliest of men can fall prey to it. So the first step…

Video: Assessing Febrile Seizure Patients

Video: Assessing Febrile Seizure Patients is a post from: Everyday EMS Tips I have been working on a CE article about Febrile Seizures (look for it in an upcoming issue of EMS magazine). During my research for the article I found this video at ParamedicTV.com. Paramedic and educator Bob Waddell…