2022-04-25 03:11
April 24, annually is observed as World Day for Laboratory Animals. I am writing this post commemorating this. Laboratory animals do not get the respect they deserve in the service of b… Read More
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A blog on medical devices, biotechnology, bioengineering, healthcare, etc. Join me on discussions about devices, regulations, the FDA, policies, law, and what not! Chaaraka is take on Charaka, an ancient Indian Physician of lore...
2022-04-08 04:45
Health. I wonder why that would be an important topic just about now? Well, I don't know if it is too soon for us to be laughing about this, but the coronavirus pandemic continues, and will… Read More
2022-04-02 22:31
I know it has been a while since I posted on this blog, but World Autism Day is too important to pass up, so here I am. World Autism Day should serve as a reminder to all of us of a few… Read More
2020-08-11 06:36
This is a quick update to the post I wrote from this morning, regarding the resignation of Angell, California's Public Health Director late on Sunday. On that I mentioned, and I will quote h… Read More
2020-08-10 20:01
California, my state of never-ending hubris, and chutzpah, is in the midst of a crisis. As with everything else, it is being handled rather poorly. Gavin Newsom, our governor is in a big fig… Read More
India's Uncontrolled And Corrupt Medical Supply Chain Comes To Bite Back Just In Time For A Pandemic
2020-08-02 19:07
There is a strong yearning among many Indians, myself included, for our nation to reach the upper echelons, to considered as having arrived, and to be recognized as a developed nation. Sadly… Read More
2020-07-24 08:27
The International Self-Care Day is commemorated on July 24th, annually. Why?Well, if you are thinking about self-(health)care, you want to be engaged 24x7. Or, here in the "new" world, 7x24… Read More
2020-04-07 16:41
The World Health Organization has been promoting World Health Day, annually on April 7. In years past, one might have struggled to pick from various health conditions and issues, or cohorts… Read More
2020-03-07 07:38
If you, like me are not a participant of the great toilet paper panic of 2020 (seriously, if you get sick, WHAT are you going to do with TP?), you are wondering what it is that we ought to d… Read More
2020-02-01 07:08
In the US, capitalizing on the spirit of Valentine's Day, February is commemorated as Heart Health Month. So, get moving, get reading and get changing! Photo Credit, etc. : https://www.pexel… Read More
2019-09-01 07:23
Note: I am from Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, a very progressive city in a very progressive state. And so, I may not be as objective in writing this, even though, Diversity, LGBT and Women's right… Read More
2019-04-11 05:24
It is official, Microsoft is exiting the Health Records business altogether, shuttering HealthVault completely and sending consumers elsewhere. In lieu of admitting defeat, they are issuing… Read More
2019-04-09 05:12
I am speaking at the Boston BIOMEDevice Conference and the ESC. As a speaker, I have ONE complimentary pass to give away.Since most everyone I know in the Boston area, will probably be at th… Read More
2019-04-08 06:23
The good folks at JDRF woke me up on a lazy Sunday morning with an email about April 7th being World Health Day. As I lay in bed listening to some Carnatic Music renditions (a form of South… Read More
2019-04-06 06:03
NOTE: By now, if you haven't heard of the secret database the FDA has been keeping to help companies hide adverse events, I'd say you are not keeping up! I will supply a couple of links for… Read More
2019-04-03 05:20
Just this morning (it is still the 2nd of April as I compose the email) I found out that the UN declared April 2nd and the month of April, Autism awareness day and month. This is obviously o… Read More
2019-03-28 15:05
A Note: I have found the people at Sterigenics to be very forthcoming in my previous interactions with them. They are "singled" out here, only because they made the news for all the wrong re… Read More
2019-03-11 07:49
Disclaimer: I work in Surgical Robotics currently, and Kaiser Permanente, featured in the story below is my current insurance provider.The Story: CNN just picked up a rather sad and disturbi… Read More
2019-02-22 07:05
The other day, I wrote about my cholesterol issue and the research surrounding it. I got some interesting feedback, so I thought, I'd write another post along that vein based on a personal e… Read More
2019-02-18 07:39
It has been nearly a year since I last posted here. I have had an eventful year, including employment changes, more conferences and illnesses sundry. I have been itching to get back on this… Read More
2018-03-01 04:38
Last July, I wrote a post about an interesting investment by 3i in Cirtec Medical (link below), that I predicted would shake up competition among medical device contract manufacturers. Of co… Read More
2018-01-10 03:12
So today, I will tell you a story. In a galaxy not so far away, I visited a medical device company, where nepotism, hubris and a "we are always right" are fostered and promoted. The result i… Read More
2017-12-31 21:48
I would be surprised if you were either in the medical devices/diagnostics or the general greed, stupidity and avarice industry and had never heard of Theranos. I mean you'd be in some stran… Read More
2017-12-20 07:30
Traditional/Alternate non-allopathy medicine certainly has a place in the healthcare industry. However, the problem is that a lot of these are entirely devoid of any basis in scientific evid… Read More
2017-12-09 03:45
If you have been following the blog, you have heard I was presenting at the San Jose BIOMEDevice Conference this week. In connection with this, I have a new site, http://medpund.it/, focused… Read More
2017-11-20 20:53
This is going to be a brief post. I am honored to have been accepted to present on how AI is influencing Medical Device Design and Manufacturing, this December, at the San Jose, BioMEDevice… Read More
2017-11-15 09:14
As I was thinking of getting to summarize, what I thought were some of the cool things I myself learned while being a panelist at MD&M Minneapolis, Amanda Pedersen over at MD&DI wrot… Read More
2017-11-10 07:34
I know I have not been blogging as frequently as I would like. It has been a busy few weeks filled with Maker Faires, conferences, competition judging and participation in competitions and p… Read More
2017-10-02 05:48
As some of you know and have seen me post here, earlier this year, I branched out my research and blogging on Women's Health onto a separate site, a domain of my own, http://gyn.ioI am very… Read More
2017-09-28 15:49
MDDI, a versatile source for healthcare industry news has some good news for AI/ML fans. This morning they provided news on two different companies that got funding for Machine Learning (ML)… Read More
2017-09-19 06:22
People think little of Stainless Steel on a day to day basis. I mean, it is a wonderful, class of alloy and surrounds all walks of our life. It is strong, durable and easily rolled, formed a… Read More
2017-09-15 07:55
AAAS - American Association for Advancement of ScienceHelp me help with a STEM/Human Experiment!AAAS recently communicated to me that as a member, I have the opportunity to gift an undergrad… Read More
2017-09-11 08:34
NOTE: It has been a busy few weeks and it is going to be a busy few months ahead. So, my blogging frequency is going to be erratic at best. It is a shame, because I wanted to write on the Pr… Read More
2017-08-30 06:09
Word is out that the FDA is trying to curtail the number of side-effects stated in Direct-To-Consumer (DTC) pharmaceutical advertisements, in an apparent effort to try and get consumers to u… Read More
2017-08-25 00:59
With most medical device innovation happening in the West, it is easy to simply ignore some marvelous innovations coming from elsewhere. The Jaipur Foot/Leg, conceived in India and used for… Read More
2017-08-20 18:38
Rarely do people get to declare everyone in the world to commemorate a day as "World X Day", but according to Wikipedia: World Mosquito Day, observed annually on 20 August, is a commemoratio… Read More
2017-07-12 21:06
By now, I hope you have heard about Design Thinking, a term, though surprisingly old, has now become popular among Designers, and those who would like to apply this way of thinking about pro… Read More
2017-07-12 01:58
This past Friday, I had dinner with my graduate school roommate. We'd met after nearly 11 years and still, we were able to pick up where we left off. While I have been in Engineering since… Read More
2017-07-05 21:12
Previously, I have received feedback with suggestions to write more about investments in the medical device field. I didn't want to mirror the usual press releases that suggest X invested Y… Read More
2017-07-01 01:45
MedCity News pointed me to a very interesting retrospective study on Gastric Lap Bands, and a Danish reporting system that led to findings on a hernia mesh in an article today. This got me t… Read More
2017-06-30 02:35
I know a lot of people dislike being advertised to, but I lap it up, depending on what it is. This morning, LinkedIn had a suggested post, on skin adhesives for wearable devices by a very kn… Read More
2017-06-29 03:43
I am presenting on continual innovation at the ASQ Innovation Conference this Fall. I have been gathering some interesting reading materials on innovation. Clayton Christensen has written ex… Read More
2017-06-21 06:12
Interesting NumbersIn a Senate Hearing today, FDA Director said that there are over 200 orphan designation applications pending with the agency. He then promised a turnaround on ALL (yup, yo… Read More
2017-06-20 03:54
Surgery can be really personal. I once nearly lost my left arm to a benign cyst, because the first Orthopedic specialist didn't alert us to the dangers of repeat fractures, and another speci… Read More
2017-06-18 23:05
There is a disease slowly spreading across many industries. It is not AI (and no, this is not a Luddite post, I am a huge fan of AI). It is NOT-AI, or Fake-AI or Pretend-AI - we don't have a… Read More
2017-06-18 03:09
I am going to write about one of my favorite topics, where I will, take somewhat of an antithetical position, and that is going to piss some of you off. If it does, it was meant to. If you a… Read More
2017-06-17 00:47
I find it quite interesting that, just yesterday, I had complained about how the FDA and other regulatory agencies are behind the curve on cyber-security, and today, at least with regard to… Read More
2017-06-16 02:07
Cyber-security of medical devices is a critical issue, and surprisingly, one that still fails to gain appropriate attention, despite repeated publications and shocking revelations. The FDA h… Read More
2017-06-14 06:05
Front End Research is important for innovation in any industry. It was once my job to look to expand my company's existing devices to various health conditions, and to identify technologies… Read More
2017-06-04 19:08
Of late, publication bias has become a subject of intense debate. Among many of the deleterious effects it has, research reproducibility has become an important one. Because of pressure to p… Read More
2017-06-03 20:16
As I mentioned here a few weeks ago, I write a blog exclusively on Women's Health issues. This morning, I posted about an Endologix Device and Trial on AAA repair that looked at both men and… Read More
2017-05-14 18:03
In the United States, May 14 - 20 is National Women's Health Week this year, at least I guess because the funding hasn't been pulled yet. HHS has a website specifically dedicated, with sugge… Read More
2017-05-07 05:07
A few days ago, I wrote about India's Medical Device Market: http://chaaraka.blogspot.com/2017/04/indias-bizarre-medical-device-market.htmlAnd then, today, I came across an article that make… Read More
2017-04-25 06:54
I found about this exciting event on Friday, about to happen today, and the first thing I did was sign up, as it was free for the public. My alma mater always puts on the best shows (very ob… Read More
2017-04-24 06:03
The Indian Government regulates the Indian Medical Device Industry, that are perplexing to say the least. I just came across this news that Abbott is pulling out a couple of their drug eluti… Read More
2017-04-15 16:07
The CB Insights Blog has a great post about investments in Digital Health Companies, that go beyond the traditional VC Investors. They have prepared a nice infographic-like visual chart that… Read More
2017-02-10 08:38
I was here. I will be here again. I highly recommend you do too! Read More
2016-03-19 18:53
Note: I have not posted here in nearly a year now. That is about to change. When I have been off something, I like to ease in, rather than rush in. So, I am going to post a few quick posts h… Read More
Brief: Anthem Blue Cross Is Unbrazen As It's Vindictive Business Practices Lay Exposed In California
2016-03-19 18:53
Note: I don't have much time nowadays so I am switching to quick updates on key issues rather than wait till I have time to post in the long form I am used to. I first came across this artic… Read More
2016-03-19 18:53
Hello there! It has become nearly impossible to write because of a couple of key projects I have been involved in. Therefore I am trying to write very very briefly to try and keep blogging a… Read More
2016-03-19 18:53
If you thought America's problems were the first-to-invent vs. first-to-file, or the Apple-Samsung trial or the medical device tax as various golf-playing company executives and clueless Rep… Read More
2016-02-04 19:37
My plans for posting on this blog more frequently have not gone too well so far. But, I will keep trying till I get to that point. I ended up at my desk this morning to find out that today… Read More
2015-02-01 03:54
I was trying to find some generic topics to get back to blogging, at least once a month or a quarter, and I wanted to see what February has in store. A very quick search found a great resour… Read More
2014-03-01 06:23
Note: I have not posted here in nearly a year now. That is about to change. When I have been off something, I like to ease in, rather than rush in. So, I am going to post a few quick posts h… Read More
2012-08-10 00:10
A note: "Apothecurry" - a blog with a very creative and meaningful name is my favorite blog to get some nifty scoops on the status of the Indian pharma industry, and I suppose what the… Read More
2012-07-13 13:13
If you are unaware of the Supreme Court decision last month, you are either completely disconnected from the US or are a very successful cave-dweller.There are several groups benefiting from… Read More
2012-04-01 06:17
Till then, here's a tweet..Yes, your's truly was there Read More
2012-02-23 08:13
I know the last post was also about India. With all the action in India, it is quite tempting to write a lot more India-specific posts. I have saved a few US-specific and generic posts that… Read More
2012-02-01 07:34
This was an interesting, albeit expensive tidbit I saw today...India is apparently getting a 90 crore hospital, dedicated solely to stem cell treatments. At the outset, it appears… Read More
2012-01-01 07:19
I know I haven't posted here in months. Things have been quite busy and I am unable to write as much as I would like. That said, I wanted to leave 2011 with a "I told you so" post, so that I… Read More
2011-10-16 19:37
Today is blog action day and I received an email just last night about this. I don't have much by way of content, but I thought raising awareness is not much about content, but lending a voi… Read More
2011-09-18 07:53
Lately, there has been so much yelling and screaming by concerned "non-profits" and their "friends" about how taxes kill innovation, patents kill innovation, regulations kill innovation… Read More
2011-08-30 05:54
I know this is off-topic, and I haven't blogged in a while. As has become the norm, I have become busy with some stuff, but I have some exciting news to share with you. One of the projects I… Read More
2011-06-27 05:59
Pharma, Drug Industry, or as many of us fondly refer to it as "Big Pharma" is headed for trouble. There are four main sources of trouble for the industry and while this is no uncommon knowle… Read More
2011-06-25 23:38
It is like a scene from a bad cowboy movie. Or, a Chuck Norris episode, with GMC trucks and everything. Scott Brown was probably "coached" by his friends at some of the Biotech companies whi… Read More
2011-06-05 16:34
About Blog Briefs: Having become too busy to write a lot, I have decided to blog briefly, throwing out news and opinions that might interest people who stop by. Moving on...The National Acad… Read More
2011-02-01 07:24
A quick note: This month has seen me suffer a lot through the loss of my favorite feline Squeaky. This was predated with our failed efforts at using veterinary medicine to save him. I will b… Read More
2011-01-01 07:29
Well, 2011 is here, in some places already and where I am, it is slowly rolling in. Other than a couple of major resolutions/goals, I hit most of my spots in 2010, at least partly. I had sim… Read More
2010-12-25 09:42
It bodes well for my spirit to take a break from the usual tug-of-war nonsense between the regulators and the regulated and all that other stuff and rehash a great story from San Jose Mercur… Read More
2010-12-17 08:23
One of the many tools I use with this blog is "skribit". It is a really cool tool and I guess it's usage will grow over time. The tool, when installed as a widget allows readers and passers… Read More
2010-12-16 09:21
Preface - the perspectives Depending on your perspective about things going on around you, you can basically take one of two approaches - you could go the "Advamed/NFIB" route, constantly gr… Read More
2010-12-12 01:46
It's about 5:00pm now. And we are on a break...it has been so much fun playing. As part of the game, we broke off into many groups, working on problems ranging from environment health, where… Read More
2010-12-11 22:55
"It's crazy and wild and fun" - that is what David, one of the co-organizers has to say. I would agree. The event started at about 1:00pm, with the usual exercise where we all created "visua… Read More
2010-12-11 18:35
Healthgamescamp is a barcamp organized specifically to create digital and non-digital games specifically geared towards creating a positive change in people's health behavior. Any barcamp ca… Read More
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