Marketing study after marketing study shows mobile is the future for all industries – “big pharma” included. But marketing study after marketing study also shows drug companies fall far behind in making their Web sites compatible with smartphones, tablets and other devices. One-third of Web sites belonging to 150 leading […]

In our dominantly digital world, the ability to find anything and everything online not only is enjoyed but also expected. Need to settle a bar bet about who the No. 1-ranked college football team is for the week? Google it. Want to find out the name of that familiar song […]

Apple and Google, two of the technology industry’s top titans, are poised to release evolutionary software applications that will track the health data of those using them. Apple’s HealthKit and Google’s Fit will have a wide-ranging impact on how people perceive themselves, take care of their bodies and understand their […]

The Food and Drug Administration is modernizing the way it reports recalls of products that pose risks to consumers. Through the development of an application programming interface, all recalls reported to the Recall Enterprise System now will be available to researchers. The development of the software is significant because hundreds […]

Technological Innovations Result in Real-Time Medical Records That Engage Patients, Aid Doctors A new breed of patients are becoming intrinsically engaged, active participants in their health care thanks to a series of technological innovations aimed at enhancing medical research. Among the technological innovations: monitoring devices. Wearable computerized gadgets can track […]

The FDA issued a new draft guidance on July 15th which further explains how the FDA currently fails to protect consumers of medical devices and pharmaceutical drugs. It is important to remember that these sort of FDA-issued guidances are non-binding and only “represent the Food and Drug Administration’s current thinking […]

Antibiotics have hit the black market, and the hot-commodity counterfeits don’t bode well for the health of those who take them. The pills whose purpose is to fight infection have become so ubiquitous that germs are finding their way around them and becoming increasingly resistant. The result, warns the World […]

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A hospital is a place where miracles happen, where human hands join science and technology to fix broken bones, remove cancerous tumors, and battle all manner of nasty diseases. At the same time, hospitals can be intimidating and downright scary: Long sterile corridors full of gurneys and workers in identical […]

When our clients discover that their metal-on-metal (MoM) hip has failed and never went through U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval for safety and efficacy, they ask – how did that happen? Most Americans do not understand that medical devices are largely unregulated, even for those devices that are […]