Amongst all the recalls Johnson and Johnson has had a good year with FDA approvals including this one as there has not bee anything new approved in years. There is an inhaled TB vaccine in the works from a few years back.
Inhaled Tuberculosis Vaccine More Effective Than Traditional Shot
Probably more recent in the news was the “Occupy” location in Atlanta where homeless people were testing positive for TB. The new
drug is pretty hefty with warnings as well and is to be used after other medications have failed and carries the black box warning as it is considered a new class of drugs and there could be more deaths attributed to it’s use. This type of TB is rare in the US but growing in other countries and TB is spread through the air. BD
Atlanta Occupy Location Tests Positive for Tuberculosis and May Have to Relocate Again
The Food & Drug Administration today approved the first drug to treat multi-drug resistant tuberculosis, Johnson & Johnson’s (NYSE: JNJ) bedaquiline (Sirturo), an important breakthrough in the global fight against one of the world’s deadliest diseases.
Made by J&J’s Janssen Therapeutics division, based in Titusville, NJ, bedaquiline is meant for patients who have failed to respond to all other treatments.
It works by blocking an enzyme critical to the replication of M.tuberculosis bacteria, and the company said it is the first new drug in 40 years to attack TB via a new mechanism of action.
http://www.xconomy.com/new-york/2012/12/31/fda-approves-jj-drug-for-multi-drug-resistant-tuberculosis/
This is pretty good and I felt compelled to include this as she’s the one before the programmers, in other words, Quants build models and programmers design and build it. In both videos you will find a lot of answers as she’s good and if you read here then you have probably heard a lot of this from a programming side. She’s the first step ahead and created the model that programmers use to write software. She has had a very interesting background and she digs in to big data and that subject I think be renamed, the “data scientist”…same thoughts where in the world do you find these people. You can find her blog here, MathBabe, like the name. 
Avoid doing harm she states. She still models and knows the benefits when done correctly. Nerds are never in charge. I just talked with someone the other day where a study was done and the data was not supplied to substantiate the abstract and without the data, the recipient determined there were over 500 million available models, data counts and you just can’t take to the bank a report or study you see in the news without offering someone the opportunity to confirm the data origins, etc. 
eally useful model to make a lot of money”…you’ve had heard something like that here before:) People are trained to think of mathematics as a game you have to “win”, the culture in finance. No Quants are ever expected to answer or account for the consequences on the effects of normal people. Modeling has gone crazy and it has and it will. 
public woke up. It’s not that we are really that smart it’s just that we have “been there done that” way before a consumer even hears the concept, why we are geeks:) What is great about her videos is that she does for modeling about the same as I do for programming and there’s nothing like hands on as everyone else just reads other stuff and repeats it. She addresses both sides of healthcare data and says the clinical side is great and of course I agree, but then we have the health insurers who use segmentation in the opposite direction. 
turned down back in 2010 as the FDA was concerned about the side effects, bronchial spasms. This is interesting when you read this article as they were just about out of money if I an reading this correctly and were trying to find a buyer. 
providing speed of therapeutic onset that is comparable to intravenous (IV) administration but with greater ease, patient comfort and convenience. 
supporter who has committed $100 million to St. John's and has his name on several buildings was shocked when the CEO and board recently were fired by the current Catholic out of state owners as it was in the works to sell the hospital. Soon-Shiong said he would like to see the hospital back in the hands of local owners and he was also ready to help finance the sale. St. John's is the only California hospital run by the Sisters of Charity in Denver. The hospital was opened after World War 2 and has taken care of many celebrities in it’s time and has it’s Hollywood connections with philanthropy as well. When Santa Monica Bay Physicians joined the UCLA Health System in 2010 St. Johns lost a bit of business. 
This is a photo sent to Reportit by FOX10 News viewer Michael Whitehead. He said this is second floor of Mobile Infirmary after a tornado struck Mobile on December 25. 
will be asking the same question. This is not to be confused with “insurance exchanges” in this instance as this is for sharing medical records only. The group has gone to insurance companies to see if they will kick in some money. I wouldn’t be one to hold my breath on that one but you never know, but grants seem to be more the way to get funded with medical health data if they can be had. 
