Weekend Cap: Heard across the medical devices and pharma world today..

Here are a few things that I found intriguing today...

Following up on several different letters that Congress has been sending off to the FDA, here is a nice summary on the FDA Law Blog:

http://www.fdalawblog.net/fda_law_blog_hyman_phelps/2008/01/hot-bothered--.html

Seems like a nice little letter writing competition between the various people at Congress, doesn't it?

Here is a blog on lawsuits against drug experimenters and some huffing and puffing about torts and informed consent:

http://blogs.wsj.com/health/2008/01/31/when-drug-trials-go-wrong/

How does the HIV hide in the body?

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/01/31/AR2008013101938.html

and, before we bid adieu, on the unnecessary patent "reforms"

http://www.patenthawk.com/blog/2008/01/justification_please_1.html

And the latest authority on Drug Eluting Stents? Boston Globe...who would have thought, all you needed was pretty charts!

http://www.boston.com/business/healthcare/articles/2008/02/01/crucial_studies_turn_in_stent_makers_favor/

Enjoy your weekend, and come back Monday. Who knows what study will try to cloud what mystic hill..?!