No, not Bud Abbott, but Abbott Laboratories, who just lost a $1.67 billion dollar jury-awarded judgment against Johnson & Johnson for patent infringement. Humira, Abbott’s pharmaceutical that blocks tumor necrosis factor, related to arthritis, is the culprit, as the jury found that Abbott had stolen part of a study J&J [...]
As you know, I’ve written a lot of posts lately on the health care issue. On this blog, I’ve asked people what kind of health care plan they’d like; didn’t get any responses to that one. I talked about how the present health care plan out there could close [...]
Actually, yes we do, and that’s almost too bad.
It’s an interesting thing to talk about, whether and why we need credit cards. I came upon an article on a site called The Grio (I don’t know) titled Credit Is The New Crack, where a writer named Dr. Boyce [...]
Milestone day, and it’s time to talk a little bit about the statistics of Top Finance Blog.
I started this blog on December 7th, after purchasing it from my buddy Justin, who had too many things going on and decided it was better to sell than let it go to pieces. [...]
By all indications, the Syracuse area economy is actually holding up fairly well in these recessionary times. A quarterly report from The Brookings Institution called the MetroTimes ranked Syracuse among the 40 strongest metro areas in the nation. The Syracuse area includes Onondaga, Oswego, and Madison counties.
The housing market was [...]
On my business blog, I wrote a post about the ranking some of our local hospitals are being perceived by people who have overnight stays. The numbers aren’t encouraging, with only one city hospital having a ranking higher than the national average of 64% and only two others in the [...]
It seems like some housing analysts are grasping at straws as they try to tell us that real estate is on its way back. When the best you can say is that numbers aren’t as bad as previous, but they’re still bad, it makes you wonder what kind of accounting [...]