Policy & Regulation: Page 28
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Raising Standards to Reduce Pressure
By Elisabeth Pena Raising Standards to Reduce Pressure Last year, the landscape for hypertension medications was sHAKEN by study results and guideline recommendations. But despite all the noise, has anything changed in this market? In the last quarter century, a number of new medications have bee...
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Marsha Fanucci: A Team Builder
By Kim Ribbink Team People make an organization. For Marsha Fanucci, Senior VP of Finance and Corporate Strategy at Millennium Pharmaceuticals Inc., building a quality team capable of propelling a company forward is the best measure of success. MARSHA Fanucci rom pharmaceutical consulting to star...
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Explore the Trendline➔
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TrendlineEmerging biotech
After years of financial turmoil, the biotech market is turning the page. Strong fundamentals, including solid clinical data, are key for biotechs hoping to capitalize on the improving conditions.
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E-Media
E-Media New electronic and web-based applications, sites, and technologies Ness Technologies’ life-sciences division has introduced a new service offering, Ness SmartSourcing For Life Sciences, which allows life-sciences companies to combine the benefits of IT services, offshoring, and outsourcin...
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2nd Chances
2nd Chances By Elisabeth Pena For products that are not performing to expectations, a relaunch can revitalize a stale brand, highlight new clinical evidence, or give a product another chance to reach the patients it was designed to treat. With each therapy that a pharma company produces, the goal...
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Talent Pool
Pharma POOL Richard W. Ashley James White Abbott Laboratories Names New Executives Abbott Laboratories has named Richard W. Ashley to the new position of executive VP of corporate development. Abbott, Abbott Park, Ill., is a global, broad-based healthcare company devoted to the discovery, develop...
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E-Media
E-Media New electronic and web-based applications, sites, and technologies NoInk Communications has released Pharma-SalesAccelerator, a new suite of applications specifically designed to improve productivity and increase performance of pharmaceutical sales organizations. NoInk partnered with Pedi...
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Talent Pool
Talent Pool Executive Appointments and Promotions in the Healthcare Industry Pharma POOL Eileen M. Lach Wyeth Fills VP, Associate General Counsel Position Wyeth has promoted Eileen M. Lach to the position of VP, corporate secretary, and associate general counsel. Wyeth, Madison, N.J., is a pharma...
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What's on Your Mind -- Opinions
What’s on Your Mind — Opinions More on the New DTC Guidelines PharmaVOICE received an overwhelming number of responses to our January opinion question, which addressed the FDA proposed changes to the regulations that govern the content and format of the product disclaimer or brief summary that mu...
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What's New
What’s new New healthcare-related products, services, and companies Ventiv Health expands Services Ventiv Health has launched Ventiv Recruitment Services as a stand-alone option to provide clients with targeted, highly effective sales professionals across many therapeutic areas. “Specialty pharma...
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PharmaTrax
Pharma Trax Sales, marketing, And R&D Trends affecting the healthcare industry Medicare Reform to Result in More Use of Drugs As early as 2006, the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement and Modernization Act of 2003 (MMA) is expected to provide $10 billion to $15 billion in new drug spendin...
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A Virtual Trial Campus
A Virtual trial campus Clinical-trial and medical-research processes are inefficient. Two of the most inefficient areas are communications and training. Once these processes are streamlined and standardized the rest can fall into place. In an exclusive interview with PharmaVOICE, Al Oviedo Pacino...
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What's New
What’s new New healthcare-related products, services, and companies Corbett Accel Forms New Business Unit The new unit, Guidenz, uses proprietary tools to optimize healthcare business informatics to meet the competitive intelligence needs of clients. Corbett Accel Healthcare Group, an Omnicom hea...
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Talent Pool
Talent Pool Executive Appointments and Promotions in the Healthcare Industry Pharma POOL David J. Kudla Jr. Advancis Creates VP of Quality Assurance Position Advancis Pharmaceutical, a pharmaceutical company focused on developing and commercializing novel anti-infective products, has named David ...
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Talent Pool
Executive Appointments and Promotions in the Healthcare Industry Featured Talent: Pharma POOL Joy A. Amundson, Baxter International Bruce McGillivray, Baxter International Jim Utts, Baxter International Brian Crombie , Biovail David Keefer, Biovail Charles Rowland, Biovail Paul Duffy, Ala...
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What's New
New Healthcare-related Products, Services, and Companies Featured Briefs: PRA International Launches Pediatric Clinical Development and Research Center PhRMA Adopts Clinical-Trial Principles LabConnect Completes inREACH Acquisition Life Science Insights Offers Intelligence Service GSP C...
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Raise Your Voice -- Letters
Medicare Part D: It’s “Crunch Time” and Many Brand Teams Aren’t Ready “If Medco called tomorrow to ask how I would contract my product under Part D, I couldn’t tell them. The trouble is, they just might call tomorrow!” I’ve heard similar quotes from numerous brand directors over the past month as...
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Letter from the Editor
Letter From The Editor Defining Leadership According to noted author John C. Maxwell, the definition of leadership is influence. Influence — the power to affect a person, thing, or course of events, especially one that operates without any direct or apparent effort — requires a commitment to furt...
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Letter from the Editor
Letter From The Editor According to Cutting Edge Information’s study, 88% of surveyed companies’ market-research teams were involved in collecting and analyzing competitive intelligence. Companies across multiple industries are recognizing the overlap between market research and competitive intel...
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Applied Competitive Intelligence
Pharma Forum Applied Competitive Intelligence By Denise Myshko A broader approach to the field of competitive intelligence where market research is combined with other data services, as well as the more traditional aspects of the discipline, is providing decision makers with better insight into t...
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Cover
On the Cover Featured on the Cover Competitive Intelligence: Driving Better Decision Making Channeling a New Direction with Neil Levine Global Trials: Tapping New Opportunities September 2004 Volume 4 Number 9 www.pharmavo...
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Medication Safety, Eight Focus Areas
Medication Safety 8 Focus Areas Long before the topic became part of a broader, national dialogue, the responsibility to improve patient safety was top of mind with nearly every professional within the vast chain of healthcare. But significant improvements are often difficult to achieve and elusi...
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What's New
What’s new New healthcare-related products, services, and companies inChord Launches Stonefly Communications Group New agency will use customer-centric business model. inChord Communications Inc. has launched a new full-service advertising agency: Stonefly Communications Group, which will focus o...
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What's New
What’s New New healthcare-related products, services, and companies PhRMA Adopts Clinical-Trial Principles Voluntary principles describe the relationship of PhRMA companies with others involved in clinical research and establish the rules to protect the safety of research participants. The Pharma...
By PharmaVoice Team • Jan. 2, 2008
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