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    Cover

    Year in Preview 2006 More than 135 experts talk about the industry’s future The Forum for the Industry Executive December 2005 Special Issue www.pharmavoice.com December 2005 PharmaVoice Volume 5 • Number 12 Download PDF

    By PharmaVoice Team • Jan. 2, 2008
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    Tracking the Trends: The Industry Across Sectors

    From the clinic to the market to the boardroom, a plethora of factors are expected to change the healthcare landscape in the coming year and beyond. More than 135 distinguished industry executives, representing all of the major sectors of the life-sciences industry, provide their insights on the ...

    By Taren Grom and Denise Myshko • Jan. 2, 2008
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    Clinical trial diversity

    As pharma wises up to the fact that the current playbook for improving clinical trial diversity has yet to make a meaningful impact, the quest is on to refine that approach.

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    Table of Contents

    About EDC: Michael Minor says EDC has a significant place in global data management strategies. Year In Preview From the clinic to the market to the boardroom, a plethora of factors are expected to change the healthcare landscape in the coming year and beyond. More than 135 distinguished industry...

    By PharmaVoice Team • Jan. 2, 2008
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    What's New

    New Healthcare-related Products, Services, and Companies inChord and DWA Create New Agency The new agency’s focus is on providing pharmaceutical and healthcare marketing to clients in Italy and the surrounding region. inChord Communications Inc. and DWA have partnered to create a new agency, DWA ...

    By PharmaVoice Team • Jan. 2, 2008
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    A Candid Visionary - Dr. Candace Kendle

    November 2005 PharmaVOICE Photography: Donald Ventre/Ventre Photo Illustration With a mix of inspiration and perspiration, Candace Kendle, Pharm.D., has built a small pharma project management and monitoring service into a large, globally respected clinical research organization. A stalwart, neve...

    By Kim Ribbink • Jan. 2, 2008
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    PharmaOutlet

    Dr. Ronald Salerno Contributed by Dr. Ronald Salerno Advancing the Science Last spring’s Drug Industry Association (DIA) workshop on pharmacogenomics reflected a much more mature, developed environment than previous workshops, paralleling the recent advances in the field. As an industry, we conti...

    By Dr. Ronald Salerno • Jan. 2, 2008
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    PharmaTrax

    Sales, Marketing, and R&D Trends from Industry Analysts Pharma Trax November 2005 Consumers Concerned about Unnecessary Medical Treatment A considerable number of U.S. adults are concerned about the frequency with which patients are medically overtreated by their doctors. This is a finding of...

    By PharmaVoice Team • Jan. 2, 2008
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    The Power of ePRO

    In the past few years, drug developers and regulatory agencies have become increasingly receptive to the use of electronic patient-reported outcomes (ePRO) devices in clinical trials. The vast majority of patient-reported outcomes are still recorded in paper-based diaries, but a broad range of ap...

    By Autumn Konopka • Jan. 2, 2008
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    Raise Your Voice -- Letters

    November 2005 Lessons to be learned As illustrated by the recent issues surrounding the drug Vioxx, there are times when the desire for marketability of treatments may overlook small but potentially grave safety concerns arising from clinical trials. Of all the important lessons to be learned fro...

    By PharmaVoice Team • Jan. 2, 2008
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    Paperless Trials: Fact, Fiction, or a Little Bit of Both?

    Electronic Data capture Paperless Trials: Fact, Fiction, or a Little Bit of Both? EDC has gone through many iterations in the past couple of years. While the technologies and processes have evolved significantly from the early days, the move to a completely paperless environment is still ...

    By PharmaVoice Team • Jan. 2, 2008
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    What's New

    i3 Creates Drug Safety Business The new business unit is responding to the industry’s need for greater vigilance regarding the safety of drugs. i3 has introduced i3 Drug Safety, a new business unit created to unite all of the organization’s epidemiology and drug-safety resources into one unit to ...

    By PharmaVoice Team • Jan. 2, 2008
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    PharmaTrax

    PharmaTrax Cardiovascular Drug Market to Top $100 Billion by 2008 The worldwide market for prescription cardiovascular medications, which topped $75 billion in 2004, will surpass the $100 billion mark by 2008, according to a new report released by Kalorama Information titled The Worldwide M...

    By PharmaVoice Team • Jan. 2, 2008
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    E-Media

    New Electronic and Web-based Applications, Sites, and Technologies E-media PhRMA Website Educates Consumers on the Risks of Importing Drugs Citing a growing body of information that opening the U.S. borders to foreign drugs is risky and unsafe, the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufact...

    By PharmaVoice Team • Jan. 2, 2008
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    On the Calendar

    Industry Event On the Calendar PharmaVOICE October 2005 October 17-18 3rd Annual Mid-Market Healthcare M&A & Corporate Development Conference Loews Vanderbilt Hotel, Nashville, Tenn. For more information, contact Sandro Pardo, Strategic Research Institute, at 212-967-0095 x234, e-mail spa...

    By PharmaVoice Team • Jan. 2, 2008
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    Letter from the Editor

    The spirit of giving Fifth Annual PharmaLinx Charity Golf Outing Linda Beneze from PHT Corp., a gold sponsor of the event, and Taren Grom, editor of PharmaVOICE, take a moment during the Fifth Annual PharmaLinx Charity Golf Outing. The pharmaceutical and life-sciences industries have on...

    By PharmaVoice Team • Jan. 2, 2008
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    Avtar Dhillon - Successful Returns

    Avtar Dhillon – Successful Returns October 2005 PharmaVOICE A scientist’s perseverance and foresight, a doctor’s compassion, and an entrepreneur’s penchant for turning business opportunities into successful ventures are just some of the traits that define the multifaceted career of Avtar D...

    By PharmaVoice Team • Jan. 2, 2008
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    Table of Contents

    On the Cover The management of customer relationship management Having lagged behind other industries in terms of capitalizing on customer data, the pharmaceutical arena is catcthing up. The industry is beginning to fully commit to learn more about its customers, and is using that information to ...

    By PharmaVoice Team • Jan. 2, 2008
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    Raise Your Voice -- Letters

    Putting the “Community” in Community Service A call to action Hurricane Katrina damaged or destroyed dozens of research sites along the Gulf Coast and dislocated hundreds of employees and thousands of study participants. Pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies reacted quickly ...

    By PharmaVoice Team • Jan. 2, 2008
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    On the Road to Personalized Medicine

    On the Road to Personalized Medicine The use of biomarkers in clinical drug development will usher in the age of personalized medicine, allowing developers to predict a patient’s response to a compound. The result will be not only better treatment for patients, ...

    By PharmaVoice Team • Jan. 2, 2008
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    5th Annual PharmaLinx Charity Golf Outing

    5th Annual PharmaLinx Charity Golf Outing Raising More than $20,000 for the Lankenau Institute for Medical Research Hosted by PharmaVoice Magazine and AXIS Healthcare Communications LLC 1. Dr. Vincent Cristofalo from Lankenau Institute (LIMR) and Lisa Banket from PharmaVOICE share a momen...

    By PharmaVoice Team • Jan. 2, 2008
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    What's New

    What’s New New healthcare-related products, services, and companies GfK Group Integrates U.S. Healthcare Businesses GfK Group has consolidated its U.S. healthcare activities under GfK U.S. HealthCare Companies. This move follows GfK’s acquisition of NOP World, as well as its full acquisition of G...

    By PharmaVoice Team • Jan. 2, 2008
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    ECG Goes Digital

    ECG Goes Digital By Denise Myshko With regulatory agencies placing a greater emphasis on cardiac safety, pharmaceutical companies are now required to test all drugs for their impact on cardiac repolarization. Electronic data capture and transfer technologies are making this a much more manageable...

    By Denise Myshko • Jan. 2, 2008
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    E-Media

    Suite of Technology Solutions Addresses Safety Issues Life-sciences organizations face increasing scrutiny from consumers, healthcare professionals, regulatory agencies, and legislators. As a result, it is critical that they take a proactive approach to the way adverse-event cases are received, p...

    By PharmaVoice Team • Jan. 2, 2008
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    Six Sigma: Quality Improvement Programs

    Six Sigma: Quality Improvement Programs Implementing a six sigma quality improvement program is not a magic pill to instantly improve business performance. Instead it is a structured way to improve the product or service delivered to customers while improving business efficiency. The Six Sigma qu...

    By PharmaVoice Team • Jan. 2, 2008
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    The CRA: A Key to Site Effectiveness

    The CRA: A Key to Site Effectiveness Clinical Research Associates By Denise Myshko Electronic data capture and other clinical-research technologies are having a far-reaching impact that extends beyond just the quick and efficient gathering of data. Clinical research associates — employed by the s...

    By Denise Myshko • Jan. 2, 2008