Replies to post #56568 on Biotech Values

[DewDiligence]

Re: iHub’s ‘Greatest Hits’

I haven’t updated this file in a whole year, and hence I plan to do so before year-end. Suggestions are welcome for additions and deletions. T.i.a. Dew

p.s. The photo of the bar-headed goose will be re-inserted. The accompanying article is still my all-time favorite.

[DewDiligence]

iHub’s Greatest Hits

[Added the “Numbers Game” chart and (by popular request) the photo
of Steve Kanzer being forcibly removed from an FDA panel meeting.]

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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-34512941

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

Reinventing Big Pharma
(Forbes)
#msg-8708384

What’s Wrong with
the War On Cancer
(Boston Globe)
#msg-24966877

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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

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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)
#msg-15892303

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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

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Miscellaneous


Bar-Headed Geese Migrate
Over Mt Everest, Where Oxygen
Is Scarce and Life Is Rare
#msg-8427157

Photojournalism:
Security Guards Remove Steve
Kanzer from FDA Panel Meeting
#msg-34291089