About the Author
My name is Mark Senak. I’m a lawyer and I work at the international communications firm FleishmanHillard in New York. For the past several years, I have been consulting with pharmaceutical and biologic companies that are engaged in the process of bringing new drugs to market. I have also worked extensively with an array of medical societies and patient organizations providing strategic communications counsel and media training.
Category Archives: Research
Precision Medicine and FDA – Emerging Cloud Platform in Beta
In his State of the Union message this year, President Obama announced a new effort in the way research is done when he unveiled the Precision Medicine Initiative (PMI). The stated goal of this initiative is to begin the transition from … Continue reading
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Tap, Tap, Tap … Waiting for an Alzheimer’s Test? A Spinal Tap Test Emerges.
A headline that has been both craved and feared appeared yesterday: "Spinal-Fluid Test is Found to Predict Alzheimer's" The New York Times reports that the Archives of Neurology is today publishing a study on a test for Alzheimer's that is … Continue reading
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Progress in Cancer Drugs
CBS is running a series on the progress in the development of cancer drugs. Here is a clip from yesterday that discusses how the FDA manages the approval of cancer drugs:
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Alzheimer’s = An Insidious Disease State (AIDS)
In the Sunday New York Times Business Section, there was an article about Alzheimer’s research. As I read it, I was struck by the current state of research and the way it mimicked the AIDS epidemic during the late 1980s. … Continue reading
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