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Today, I stumbled upon a new, very interesting blog concept started by Adam Marcus and Ivan Oransky, addressing scientific journalism and its accuracy: Retraction Watch. In the pursuit of accountability you have to love the web enabling blogs and organizations like this, Wikileaks, and other independent forms of investigative journalism and expression. Old school media [...]

Those who know me well, know that I have a passion for economics and finance and without fail, I compliantly take my daily dose (nice medical metaphor!) of financial news and bloggers. One of the financial blogs I follow and mostly respect, is called “Naked Capitalism” which is founded and managed by Yves Smith. Well [...]

A seemingly ubiquitous item on the reform agenda of most developed and now developing nations is “healthcare reform”. Whether we talk about the U.S. private/hybrid health care system or universal healthcare systems such as Canada’s, U.K.’s, Australia’s, and France’s, it appears the grass is much greener on the other side though as far as I [...]

Most doctors are damn good people; saints really (NO sarcasm intended). They are society’s ultimate deliberate and personally committed altruists and are the only profession that I know that has officially and internationally codified their morals/ethics values. So it with this premise in mind that I mark the question in the title after reading this [...]

This is just BIZARRE on so many different levels….. 2-year-old boy smokes 40 cigarettes a day BEIJING, May 30 — Taking a deep drag on his cigarette while resting on the steering wheel of his truck, he looks like a parody of a middle-aged lorry driver. But the image covers up a much more disturbing [...]

Interesting article Medco Expands Push to Better Match Patients to Drugs With Genetic Testing posted in Seeking Alpha by Michael Fitzhugh from The Burrill Report. Quick quote: “Medco, which already uses genetic testing to help guide usage of the blood thinner warfarin and the breast cancer drug tamoxifen, in February acquired the San Francisco-based genetic [...]

As you can see from the chart previously posted “Emerging leading causes of death in emerging Asia”, cardiovascular diseases now rank as the #1 or #2 leading cause of death in all Asian countries and is clearly a major growing health concern in the developing world having already conquered the developed world. This is largely [...]

In a constant effort to innovate our beloved healthcare space, we at asiahealthspace have designed a new suite of products promising to add substantial value to the health of society. The first is the PDS . The PDS is otherwise known as the Patient Death or Disability Swap. This instrument allows physicians to purchase life [...]

Yesterday I had the pleasure of having lunch with Bloomberg’s Asia Health and Science correspondent, Simeon Bennett. He was kind enough to share with me a very interesting but alarming piece that he researched for Bloomberg back in May of 2009. It is a insightful article which exposes the seamy underbelly of pharmaceutical capitalism in [...]