<b> iHub’s Greatest Hits </b> [Images rehosted to iHub’s new image-upload site.] ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- <u>Musings on the State of Biotech, Big Pharma, and Healthcare Costs</u> <b>The Numbers Game of Drug Development</b> (a simple chart from the US federal government): <a href='read_msg.asp?message_id=37325683'>#msg-37325683</a> <b>The Real Story Behind Spiraling Healthcare Costs</b> (New Yorker magazine) <a href='read_msg.asp?message_id=7878620'>#msg-7878620</a> <b> Healthcare Spending vs GDP </b> A picture worth a thousand words: <a href='read_msg.asp?message_id=27114485'>#msg-27114485</a> <b> Healthcare and the R Word</b> (‘R’ stands for rationing) <a href='read_msg.asp?message_id=18495262'>#msg-18495262</a> <b>Patently Absurd</b> Musings from The Economist on the KSR patent case: <a href='read_msg.asp?message_id=19404785'>#msg-19404785</a> (article) <a href='read_msg.asp?message_id=37325719'>#msg-37325719</a> (chart) <b>Reinventing Big Pharma</b> (Forbes) <a href='read_msg.asp?message_id=8708384'>#msg-8708384</a> <b>What’s Wrong with the War On Cancer</b> (Boston Globe) <a href='read_msg.asp?message_id=24966877'>#msg-24966877</a> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- <u>Pitfalls of Biotech Investing</u> <b>Program-Survival Bias</b> (Journal of Clinical Oncology) <a href='read_msg.asp?message_id=7959424'>#msg-7959424</a> <b>The Challenge of Subgroup Analysis</b> (NEJM) <a href='read_msg.asp?message_id=10754654'>#msg-10754654</a> <b> Too many cancer drugs chasing too few reimbursement dollars: </b> <a href='read_msg.asp?message_id=11432606'>#msg-11432606</a> <b>Zebra’s Law</b> <a href='read_msg.asp?message_id=23784371'>#msg-23784371</a> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- <u>Let’s Talk Science</u> <b>How RNAi Works</b> (Video from PBS/Nova) <a href='read_msg.asp?message_id=9675929'>#msg-9675929</a> [The next two items are best read as a set.] <b>Stem Cells: the Real Culprits in Cancer?</b> (Scientific American) <a href='read_msg.asp?message_id=11785699'>#msg-11785699</a> <b>Scientists Weigh Stem Cells’ Role as Cancer’s Cause</b> (NY Times) <a href='read_msg.asp?message_id=25479450'>#msg-25479450</a> <b>Immune System Revived to Fight Deadliest Diseases</b> (Wall Street Journal) <a href='read_msg.asp?message_id=12795650'>#msg-12795650</a> <b> The Tumor That Isn’t: Blocking a Path to Cancer</b> (NY Times) <a href='read_msg.asp?message_id=13400473'>#msg-13400473</a> <b> Decoding Alzheimer's </b> (Business Week) <a href='read_msg.asp?message_id=15892303'>#msg-15892303</a> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- <u>Arrogance, Greed, and Corruption</u> <b>Mary Meeker’s Fuzzy Math</b> (Wall Street Journal) <a href='read_msg.asp?message_id=22503208'>#msg-22503208</a> <b>Doctors Reveal Confidential Clinical Data for the Right Price</b> (Seattle Times) <a href='read_msg.asp?message_id=7263103'>#msg-7263103</a> <b>Most Science is Tainted</b> (Wall Street Journal) <a href='read_msg.asp?message_id=22859747'>#msg-22859747</a> <b>Is Your CEO Lying?</b> (Barron’s) <a href='read_msg.asp?message_id=11961951'>#msg-11961951</a> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- <u>Miscellaneous</u> <img src=http://208.78.96.220/bar-headed_goose.jpg> <b> Bar-Headed Geese</b> Migrate Over Mt Everest, Where Oxygen Is Scarce and Life Is Rare <a href='read_msg.asp?message_id=8427157'>#msg-8427157</a>