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All right. Brief foray into a day of negativity.

So, as may or may not have been noted in previous long medical history post, due to the amount of antibiotics that have been pumped through my body over the last year or two, my GI tract has been having some major functional errors. By which I mean pain whenever I eat, and a lot of times even when I don’t. Pain when I drink cold liquids, acidic liquids, very hot liquids. Pain with medicine. So, I did what anyone would do and saw a gastroenterologist, who promptly scheduled me for a combined endoscopy and colonoscopy (coming up December 7th – that’s going to be a fun blog post, I’m sure) due to some other unpleasant occurrences that are slightly worrisome.

I got a notice in the mail today saying that I owe $300 for the consult because I was “not eligible for coverage at this time.” Suffice it to say that I am, in fact, eligible, but for whatever reason there is a hang-up or mis-communication or otherwise ridiculous screw-up that now has Blue Cross thinking I am going to pay them $300. Let the records show I am unimpressed.

Additionally, when I went to the doctor in New York, he gave me three prescriptions to fill: one for Mepron, one for Zithromax, and one for an intramuscular injection medication. After J took time out of her schedule to drop off the RXs and wait for an hour – which is how long the pharmacy said it would take – they then informed her that they could not in fact fill any of the RXs that day and would need to order them, but could not do that until they talked to the doctor, whose handwriting they were unable to read regarding dosages.

Ok, fine. It happens. But today J gets a call (why they are constantly calling her and not me, I do not understand) saying that the Mepron was declined by insurance because I have “reached my limit”…..excuse me? I could understand if I was re-filling a narcotics prescription a week after the last time I had done so, but why anyone would want to drink EXTRA of this nasty, “citrus”-flavored liquid sludge is beyond me. And in any case, my insurance recently switched from Aetna to Blue Cross, and I have never filled this RX under the new company. So why the hang-up? I don’t understand, but it means I go another handful of days without starting the new regimen, and that’s extremely frustrating.

Yes, critics, I recognize that had I dropped them off the day I got back, this would have been settled by now. It doesn’t stop it from being a huge pain in the butt, though, and I am tired of coverage being subjective. I recognize that I am lucky to have insurance, but when I’m racking up hundreds of dollars in consults and can’t get the medication I need, it does create some intense frustration.

Positive outlook will return tomorrow. My apologies.

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I have one word for Microsoft on PDC 2009:

Awesomeness!

This years Product Developers Conference was much scaled back compared to last years but it had a great innovation in format that allowed people who didn’t attend the conference physically to still interact with it virtually.

And so the good folks at Channel 9 had built up a talkshow like studio at the PDC, with live streaming video through Silverlight, and the ability to viewers to ask questions live on air via Twitter.

This was immensely fun. I had the opportunity to ask questions to at least two technical fellows at Microsoft. Technical Fellow is the highest technical ranking at Microsoft besides of course Chief Technical Architect, a position which is currently held by Ray Ozzie.

I asked a question to Patrick Dussud, Technical Fellow and lead architect of the .Net Common Language Runtime (CLR), designer of the CLR GC and a member of the Windows Core Architechture team. The question was about how how parallel you could make the GC and what possible downsides this had.

I also asked a question to David Campbell, another Technical Fellow, from the Business Platform Division (BPD) where he manages Microsoft SQL Azure and .Net services in the cloud computing space. This question was about whether databases (e.g. SQL Server), programming runtimes (e.g. CLR) and … are merging. David mentiond that MSIL/CIL bytecode execution on SQL Server – “close to the data” – has improved performance of managed code accessing data greatly.

LINQ shows us where things are going: tighter and tighter integration. Erik Meijer, who is perhaps the lead architect of LINQ and whom I was also able to ask a question, also works for David Campbell on cloud programmability. The  new Reactive Extensions (Rx) for .Net is a pearl which we’ll see permeate .Net soon. It also builds smoothly on top of Parallel Extensions for .Net (Px), which is Microsoft’s near- to mid-term answer to the manycore challenge.

Parallel Extensions for .Net comes from the Parallel Computing Platform (PCP) team which is the team tasked with the strategic challenge posed by the massively parallel hardware of the future.

It gets better. I also asked a question to the director of NASA’s Mars programme as well as a NASA scientist.

I repeat: Awesomeness!

NASA had a marked pressence at this years PDC because they have offered up data on Microsoft’s new “Dallas” data marketplace. The attendees were apparently given 3D goggles and were viewing stereoscopic images of Mars. Pretty damned cool.

Supposedly recordings of the live Channel 9 stream will be available. I’d certainly like it.

This years PDC will be one tough PDC to outdo.

Totally totally AWESOME.

Legendary Street Fighter player, the best Urien in the world, RX (!!!!!!!!!) payed us a visit here in Brazil.

Maybe that’s why the Yun and the Yang of the world are really unbalanced.

It was unbelievably good playing with him. He is on such a greater level of the game!

He’s mesmerizing to watch, he has extraordinary offense and defense, crazy combos, such elegant and precise execution! Plus, he is such a nice guy!

I was really happy I got the chance to play him in a tournament. At winner’s finals, even!

RX in Brazil.  Cruuuuush!

Oh, BTW, I gave him the Urien painting I posted some time ago. It’s been a while without posts, I know, but I’ve been busy… sorry.

TRANSLATION TO PORTUGUESE – TRADUÇÃO PARA O PORTUGUÊS

Totalmente totalmente doidimáis!

O lendário jogador de Street Fighter – o RX, melhor Urien do mundo veio fazer uma visita para a gente no Brazil!!!

Deve ser por isso que o Yun e o Yang do mundo estão desbalanceados.

Foi inacreditavelmente bom jogar contra ele. Ele está em um outro nível de jogo. Hipnotizante de assistir, ataque e defesa muito aburdos,  combos malucos, execução elegante e precisa! E ele é muito legal!

Fiquei super feliz de poder jogar contra ele num campeonato. Na final da winners até!

RX no Brasil! Cruuuuush!

A propósito, eu dei o quadro do Urien que eu tinha postado um tempo atrás no blog. Faz tempo que eu não posto aqui, mas eu tenho ficado mto ocupado… mals!

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Following the 23.2% of LG were 22% of Whirlpool, 15% of Kenmore and 11.4% of Maytag. This was according to the research of a firm based in Louisville.

According to the spokesperson of LG Electronic, LG Electronics stays on the top of the market of front-load washer in the US and this has been noted since 2007 first quarter.

Furthermore, LG spokesperson said that LG will continue to supply more washers to USA’s largest retailers like HomeDepot, Sears and Bestbuy because the company believes that that the marketing efforts their group has been doing has been very effective in terms of energy savings, capacity as well as greater convenience.

Aside from that, LG will promote their 16.9 sq.in door washer that boasts of its 4.5 cubic foot capacity, their biggest washer so far and this will have an appeal to more than second half of the consumers in the US market.

The Association of Home Appliance Manufacturers stated that the brighter segment for the home laundry these days is represented by front-load washers and these washers now cover more than 35% of the all the washers used in home and residences as well as the dryers shipped to other places.

The official of LG Electronics stated that they prioritize the image as well as the functions and within the coming years, the company hopes to fuel more on the image of their products to maintain the momentum the company is having right now.

However, when it comes to the market of refrigerators, LG Electronics has had troubles because Whirlpool has already asserted that the makers of refrigerators in South Korea has infringed the patents for the quality, performance as well as the structure on the ice dispenser ad food storage features as well.

Accordingly, when a person looks for a washing machine to buy, it is because he needs something to help him with his washing that is why LG Electronics came up with the decision to test their laundry range with bed linen.

• ER visit week of 10-5-09:   co-pay before entering the treatment room $100, Dr. fee $266-my percentage of 20% after “negotiated adjustment” =  $34.02, IV drugs ?

• Co-pays for 2 Office visits for cellulitis and 1 for DNA Test results: $60
• Flu shot (regular)-no separate bill yet (I think)

• Plus antibiotics (2 different types), extra pain meds (neither of which worked) $40

• DNA test-not yet paid by insurance company $3100 (my maximum will be $350) but I haven’t been billed yet because the insurance company is hassling the lab that performed the service (the one that said they had my back). Classify this one as: “hanging over my head”

• Regular Rx renewals $39.91 (for three months each)

• Office visits for Ovarian Cancer research study: annual ultrasound of ovaries and CA 125 blood Test : FREE (classify this one to rule things out). More on the CA 125 test in a future post.

• Bill for September dentist (annual exam, X-rays and cleaning) $45.40 out of pocket (insurance paid $181.60)
• Co-pays for two therapeutic lymphedema massages: $60

Scary total: $513.00

These are this Wednesday’s top 10 seen analyst upgrades, downgrades and initiations which we have seen from Wall Street research calls:

AK Steel (NYSE: AKS) Raised to Buy at Citigroup.
Apollo Group (NASDAQ: APOL) Cut to Neutral at BofA/Merrill.
BP plc (NYSE: BP) Cut to Hold at Citigroup; Raised to Neutral at Goldman Sachs.
Ceradyne (NASDAQ: CRDN) Raised to Market Perform at Wells Fargo.
IMS Health (NYSE: RX) Cut to Underperform at BofA/Merrill
SanDisk (NASDAQ: SNDK) Cut to Neutral at Goldman Sachs.
SunTrust (NYSE: STI) Raised to “Top Picks” list at Citigroup.
Target Corp. (NYSE: TGT) Raised to Buy from Sell at Citigroup.
Texas Instruments (NYSE: TXN) Raised to Buy at Goldman Sachs.
Wynn Resorts Ltd. (NASDAQ: WYNN) Raised to Outperform at Oppenheimer.

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Breve recuento de la historia de los rayos x, que abarca desde su descubrimiento, hasta nuestros días.
Autor:  Dr. Alejandro R. Padilla

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J’ai déjà visité plusieurs fois la galerie RX (site ici) située dans les beaux quartiers parisiens, à deux pas de Matignon, avenue Delcassé. Cette fois, j’y suis allé un peu par hasard et je suis tombé sur des travaux de Georges Rousse (parmi d’autres artistes), artiste dont j’ai déjà vu les oeuvres à de nombreuses reprises (ici et là par exemple).

Rappelons que ce photographe ne procède pas par retouche numérique mais produit ses extraordinaires images en peignant les espaces qu’il revisite (c’est une activité très méticuleuse qu’il réalise avec un cadrillage qu’il pose devant son objectif). La plupart du temps les immeubles qu’il investit sont appelés à une destruction rapide et l’image est le seul témoignage de son intervention.

Si vous ne connaissez pas son travail, faites un tour (jusqu’au 24 octobre), cela en vaut la peine.

Speaking of old school and stripped-down, here’s another Bulgogi Brothers favorite. The modern V and VI notwithstanding, the II was probably the high water mark in the little GTI’s storied history. Here is our love song. Gratuitous? Mais non. Enjoy.

Needell & co. sing the MkII’s praises. Jonny Smith continues to be a dreadful presenter, but seeing a mint, forest green MkII being tossed around the corners of a tight and twisty handling circuit make these clips worth watching (just turn off the sound whenever Smith opens his mouth).

Fascinating video “buying guide” we found online (complete with unexpected appearance toward the end by a certain well known English television personality):

- Gyro

We all know that patient compliance is the big, industry and payor, unmet need with estimates for the cost of non compliance running up to $100 billion per year and more importantly 125,000 lives lost.

What is surprising are the different approaches being taken to combat it, the industry has employed increasingly high-tech approaches with the Novartis chip and pill being the latest innovation on the block.  http://cli.gs/saVtPE

Contrast this with the recent NHS tactic of paying patients to take their antipsychotic jab http://cli.gs/JjP9qV. A bit more low-tech I think you’ll agree but one which has already shown promising results.  Early this year a stop smoking study in Dundee, offering £12.50 per week (for a maximum of 12 weeks) was deemed to be a great success with more people quitting in a month than they had previously been achieved for a whole year! http://cli.gs/Mp0aTh

At  Rapp we are used to running large patient adherence programs using  digital,text, and traditional channels, what is common to all our successful programs, and is nicely demonstrated by the two NHS initiatives, is that  any successful intervention has to have a clear value exchange – a very personal  what’s in it for me.  Without this however much state-of-the-art wizardry you have won’t improve the problem.

Earlier this year, President Obama and the Congress “invested” about $50 billion of taxpayer money in General Motors for a majority ownership position.  This injection was made only after it was clear that no private investors were willing to put money into the failed company.

A recent report in the Wall Street Journal has justified the private investors’ unwillingness to make an investment in GM.  After emerging from bankruptcy approximately 3 months ago, GM setup certain metrics or goals to determine its progress.  GM has fallen short of some significant goals.  First, GM has about 10,000 more workers in the United States that its business plan calls.  In addition, GM missed the September 30 goal for finalizing the sale of its Hummer division, as well as a plan to sell its Saturn division to Penske Automotive Group.

In addition, Mark LaNeve, GM sales chief, announced he is leaving GM.  Generally, when high-level executives depart, this is a negative indicator of a company’s progress.

Running any business in this hyper competitive world is a complex task.  However, when the company is as large as GM, the challenges are only magnified many times.  It was naive of the Obama Administration and Congress, neither with any experience running a company, to believe that their takeover of GM would halt a slide that has been occurring for decades.  It is likely that more government bailout funds will be going to GM at additional losses to taxpayers.

Before we turn over our healthcare system to the government, we should analyze what has occurred to General Motors since the government inflicted itself upon the company.  What we will find is a bad company that got worse at taxpayers’ expense.  OK, yes the current healthcare system has flaws.  As the GM example indicates, even bad situations can be made worse with the proper governmental effort.

Depois da ótima Kamen Rider Black, resolveram inventar o RX. Muitos consideram um lixo, que não deveriam ter tal continuação, eu gosto mas não tem como comparar, Black é melhor. Rapidinho a história que o Kotaro Minami encontra monstros do mundo Kaima (entenda como lutas na pedreira da TOEI). Só que ele ainda era o Black e o Império Crisis quer os poderes do Black e ele não quer. No final das contas surge o filho do sol, famoso Kamen Rider Black RX.

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]]> http://mirekpolyniak.wordpress.com/2009/10/07/internet-realna-apteka-i-kompendium-wiedzy-medycznej/ Wed, 07 Oct 2009 14:09:52 +0000 Mirek Połyniak http://mirekpolyniak.wordpress.com/2009/10/07/internet-realna-apteka-i-kompendium-wiedzy-medycznej/

Dobra wiadomość dla wszystkich zainteresowanych e-marketingiem farmaceutycznym: na rynku pokazały się wyniki badania przeprowadzonego we wrześniu 2009 przez firmę House of Numbers wśród internautów korzystających z witryn sieci IDMnet.

Badanie ‘Internet – realna apteka i kompendium wiedzy medycznej’ obejmowało analizę 2002 wywiadów zebranych online.

Miałem przyjemność zapoznania się z wynikami i oceniam je jako bardzo interesujące i wartościowe.

Oto kilka ciekawych i ważnych wniosków:

• 43% badanych w ciągu ostatnich 12 miesięcy nabyło produkty farmaceutyczne  online
• 5% badanych internautów nabyło online lek na receptę: antybiotyk, lek przeciwalergiczny lub przeciwbólowy – co przekłada się na liczbę 800,000 internautów w Polsce,
  dla których online jest akceptowalnym kanałem zakupu leku Rx
  

Produkty farmaceutyczne zakupione w internecie

• Sieć jest jednym z najważniejszych źródeł informacji medycznej – 49% badanych poszukiwała informacji co najmniej 1 raz w miesiącu, z tego 11% prawie codziennie, a kolejne 11% kilka razy w tygodniu – nawet jeśli produkty, czy usługi medyczne [np. szczepienia] planowało kupić poza internetem
• Wyszukiwarka jest podstawowym źródłem informacji
  - 61% badanych prawie zawsze lub często korzysta z niej przy poszukiwaniu informacji medycznej

Wyszukiwarka jako źródło informacji medycznej

Plik z prezentacją wyników badania znajduje się na stronie 4clover.pl

W razie zainteresowania całością badania podaję kontakt:

House of Numbers - Jacek Mrzygłód – j.mrzyglod[@]houseofnumbers.pl