Biotechnology Stock Price Drivers
The following may be happening that can affect the stock price: Presentations or buzz occurring at key scientific and medical meetings; for oncology from which many biotechs sprout, we have ASCO, ASH, AACR, to name a few key meetings. Clinical trial results are closely pending or just released. Typically companies dealing with the same or … Continue reading Biotechnology Stock Price Drivers → (Source: NAKEDMEDICINE.COM)
Source: NAKEDMEDICINE.COM - June 4, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Jane Chin Tags: Business of Medicine Source Type: blogs
What You Need to Know about Your 401K Plan
Before entering your employer’s 401K plan, you need to decide: Percent of pre-tax contributions Percent of post-tax contributions Percent of employer match At the very minimum you want to contribute whatever % your employer matches, this way you can get the $ that your employer sets aside for your 401K. Preferably you will maximize % … Continue reading What You Need to Know about Your 401K Plan → (Source: NAKEDMEDICINE.COM)
Source: NAKEDMEDICINE.COM - December 31, 2014 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Jane Chin Tags: personal finance Source Type: blogs
What to Do If You Lose Your Wallet
Some time ago, I lost my wallet, and within the hour that I realized my wallet had been lost, I was able to do the most important “damage control” tasks like: notifying credit card companies to cancel existing cards and issue new card numbers downloading a duplicate health insurance card figure out how to replace … Continue reading What to Do If You Lose Your Wallet → (Source: NAKEDMEDICINE.COM)
Source: NAKEDMEDICINE.COM - September 5, 2014 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Jane Chin Tags: personal finance Source Type: blogs
Value of Money
Depending on situation, money buys: stability security choices freedom influence I am under no delusion that most of what I enjoy today in my life: stability, security, choices (to work or not to work, to do certain types of work, to work only certain hours), and freedom (being able to immigrate and stay in this … Continue reading Value of Money → (Source: NAKEDMEDICINE.COM)
Source: NAKEDMEDICINE.COM - June 7, 2014 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Jane Chin Tags: entrepreneurship Source Type: blogs
Antibiotic Resistance: Cultural Issue not Medical Science
We must tackle a cultural problem around overuse of antibiotics. It doesn’t matter whether we keep coming up with antibiotics: we simply breed for the most drug resistant pathogens by increasing the selective pressure in bacteria. We do this by over-prescribing antibiotics. But wait. This isn’t necessarily about getting doctors to stop over-prescribing antibiotics. If […] (Source: NAKEDMEDICINE.COM)
Source: NAKEDMEDICINE.COM - June 7, 2014 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Jane Chin Tags: Science and Research Source Type: blogs
Behavioral Economics in Personal Finance: How to Stop Over-Spending
Step 1: Control Your Purchasing Impulse By Removing Your Purchasing Ability. Stop using all credit cards and use only cash. When you run out of cash, you don’t have money to buy anything anymore. You can be a major shopaholic: shop only in cash. There are behavioral economics studies that have been done about what … Continue reading Behavioral Economics in Personal Finance: How to Stop Over-Spending → (Source: NAKEDMEDICINE.COM)
Source: NAKEDMEDICINE.COM - October 14, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Jane Chin Tags: entrepreneurship Source Type: blogs
Ever the Sluggish $BMY
Bristol Myers Squibb was hot commodity during ASCO and while remains at historically high prices, this stock is trading sideways around the $46-47 range as investors wonder whether they were intoxicated by all the hype around the BMS pipeline. (Source: NAKEDMEDICINE.COM)
Source: NAKEDMEDICINE.COM - June 18, 2013 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Jane Chin Tags: Science and Research Source Type: blogs
Sibling Aggression is Bullying and not Benign
A new study that will be published in the July 2012 issue of Pediatrics suggest that bullying is bullying, no matter whether it came from a brother or sister – versus another peer. I’d be interested to see the actual data on this (I don’t get this without an expensive subscription) — I wonder if [...] (Source: NAKEDMEDICINE.COM)
Source: NAKEDMEDICINE.COM - June 17, 2013 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Jane Chin Tags: Science and Research Source Type: blogs
GSK Trading Sluggish on Avandia Saga
Around ASCO time GSK was a promising stock being touted by life science investors as one of those undervalued stock that you can go both long and short. Even with the Avandia scandal going on, you’d think that GSK is almost invincible. Except it isn’t. Headlines around Avandia still dominates investor consciousness and even though [...] (Source: NAKEDMEDICINE.COM)
Source: NAKEDMEDICINE.COM - June 10, 2013 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Jane Chin Tags: Science and Research Source Type: blogs
The Bigger the Marketing Machine The Smaller the Cause Relevance
I saw this post from my friend Casey Quinlan about the Susan G. Komen foundation canceling various events across the U.S. due to public backlash of what the public perceives as the foundation’s foray into political stances: I don’t know what’s happened with Komen but the corporate good will seems to have declined the bigger [...] (Source: NAKEDMEDICINE.COM)
Source: NAKEDMEDICINE.COM - June 6, 2013 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Jane Chin Tags: Science and Research Source Type: blogs
How marketers over-leverage Neuro-Bunk to sell you stuff.
I worked in the cancer field and around this time (ASCO conference) I’d start seeing attention grabbing headlines like, “ginger kills cancer cells!” and then I start seeing ginger candies popping out all over supermarkets — not just in Asian markets where I used to find them, but everywhere. This is one of those “cancer [...] (Source: NAKEDMEDICINE.COM)
Source: NAKEDMEDICINE.COM - May 22, 2013 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Jane Chin Tags: Science and Research Source Type: blogs
Danger of Safety Deafness to Pharma DTC Ads
Pharma ads are a relatively “new” phenomenon. In the late 1990s, the FDA allowed pharma companies to advertise directly to consumers (DTC). These DTC campaigns were reviled by physicians who believe that the ads would create pressure on them from the patients and disrupt that physician patient relationship. Pharma companies do not have “free speech” [...] (Source: NAKEDMEDICINE.COM)
Source: NAKEDMEDICINE.COM - May 20, 2013 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Jane Chin Tags: Science and Research Source Type: blogs
“I saw a nurse – Where’s the doctor?”
You went to see the doctor and then realized that you talked to the nurse practitioner who ordered some tests — but you never saw the doctor! What’s going on? In some states, a nurse practitioner (NP) has the same prescribing authority as the doctor, and may even act as a patient’s primary care “doctor” [...] (Source: NAKEDMEDICINE.COM)
Source: NAKEDMEDICINE.COM - May 17, 2013 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Jane Chin Tags: Science and Research Source Type: blogs
How you can still coach with compassion in pharma biotech
Most people in the pharmaceutical industry want to play by the rules and meet all compliance standards. I haven’t ever met any employee or managerial leader who has told me, “I want to bend the rules as much as possible then get the hell out of here, I can’t care less what happens to patients.” [...] (Source: NAKEDMEDICINE.COM)
Source: NAKEDMEDICINE.COM - May 17, 2013 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Jane Chin Tags: Science and Research Source Type: blogs
Why Consumers aren’t Buying “High Cost-of-Developing Drugs” Argument
The Economist recently published an article on the government of India denying Novartis the patent for its cancer drug, Glivec (in the U.S. marketed as Gleevec). In reading the reader comments, it is obvious that a sense of fairness violation was perceived by readers who felt that the government was correct in denying Novartis this [...] (Source: NAKEDMEDICINE.COM)
Source: NAKEDMEDICINE.COM - May 17, 2013 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Jane Chin Tags: Affordable Healthcare Business of Medicine Drug Companies Politics in Medicine Science and Research Source Type: blogs
