iHub’s Greatest Hits [Additions: blog from The Atlantic on why US healthcare
costs so much; new section called Biotech Success Stories
with entries on GILD and Genentech.] -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Musings on the State of Biotech,
Big Pharma, and Healthcare Costs The Numbers Game of Drug Development (a simple chart from the US federal government):
#msg-37325683 Why Does US Healthcare Cost So Much? (a blog from
The Atlantic)
#msg-36993611 The Real Story Behind
Spiraling Healthcare Costs (
New Yorker magazine)
#msg-7878620 Healthcare Spending vs GDP A picture worth a thousand words:
#msg-27114485 Healthcare and the R Word (‘R’ stands for
rationing)
#msg-18495262 Patently Absurd Musings from
The Economist on the KSR patent case:
#msg-19404785 (article)
#msg-37325719 (chart)
Reinventing Big Pharma (
Forbes)
#msg-8708384 What’s Wrong with
the War On Cancer (
Boston Globe)
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Biotech Success Stories The Profit Pill A short history of Gilead from
Forbes:
#msg-36507844 A Tribute to Genentech Company highlights 1976-2009:
#msg-36635611 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Pitfalls of Biotech Investing Program-Survival Bias (
Journal of Clinical Oncology)
#msg-7959424 The Challenge of
Subgroup Analysis (
NEJM)
#msg-10754654 Too many cancer drugs chasing
too few reimbursement dollars: #msg-11432606 Zebra’s Law #msg-23784371 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Let’s Talk Science How RNAi Works (Video from PBS/Nova)
#msg-9675929 [The next two items
are best read as a set.] Stem Cells: the Real
Culprits in Cancer? (
Scientific American)
#msg-11785699 Scientists Weigh Stem Cells’
Role as Cancer’s Cause (
NY Times)
#msg-25479450 Immune System Revived
to Fight Deadliest Diseases (
Wall Street Journal)
#msg-12795650 The Tumor That Isn’t:
Blocking a Path to Cancer (
NY Times)
#msg-13400473 Decoding Alzheimer's (
Business Week)
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Arrogance, Greed, and Corruption Mary Meeker’s Fuzzy Math (
Wall Street Journal)
#msg-22503208 Doctors Reveal Confidential
Clinical Data for the Right Price (
Seattle Times)
#msg-7263103 Most Science is Tainted (
Wall Street Journal)
#msg-22859747 Is Your CEO Lying? (
Barron’s)
#msg-11961951 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Miscellaneous 
Bar-Headed Geese Migrate
Over Mt Everest, Where Oxygen
Is Scarce and Life Is Rare
#msg-8427157
