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    What's New

    Sales Training Consultancy Formed New consultancy launched to improve pharmaceutical training success. For pharmaceutical training professionals struggling to wade through the array of vendor pitches for products and services, Impactiviti LLC, led by industry veteran Steve Woodruff, founder, cons...

    By PharmaVoice Team • Jan. 2, 2008
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    For Art's Sake

    Each month, this department pays homage to memorable advertising and marketing campaigns. The highlighted executions have been identified by leading creative executives for their noteworthy use of copy, art, photography, whimsy, uniqueness, etc. — in combination or as single branding elements. Cr...

    By PharmaVoice Team • Jan. 2, 2008
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    Reimbursement and Rebate Issues

    DRA and Medicare looming large Since President George W. Bush signed the Deficit Reduction Act of 2005 (DRA) into effect, pharmaceutical manufacturers have converged on this critical event in a series of public discussions and individual preparedness initiatives. The goal of these activities is t...

    By PharmaVoice Team • Jan. 2, 2008
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    Technology is Driving Innovations In Marketing and Sales

    Year in Preview e-marketing and sales E-tactics will become important as a way to reach both consumers and physicians as mass-media promotions face continued resistance from regulators. The Internet is an ideal channel for transmitting both brand-specific and educational campaigns, especially thr...

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

    BBK Launches E-Business Suite of Tools for Patient Recruitment Pharmaceutical, medical-device, and biotechnology companies can now take advantage of BBK Worldwide’s TCN e-Systems, a licensable e-business patient-recruitment solutions offering. With TCN e-Systems, study sponsors have greater contr...

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

    On the Cover Sales and marketing compliance As pharmaceutical manufacturers continue to refine and adjust their compliance policies to meet a slew of regulations over the past five years, they also are looking ahead and preparing for regulatory changes that could create many challenges. Features ...

    By PharmaVoice Team • Jan. 2, 2008
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    A Commitment to Public Health -- Dr. Barbara DeBuono

    By Kim Ribbink Dr. Barbara DeBuono, as Senior Consultant to the WHO, was assigned to the organization’s SEARO, Southeast Asia Regional Office in New Delhi, India, to review public-health aspects of the tsunami relief and recovery operations. She worked with the WHO offices in India, Maldives, and...

    By Kim Ribbink • Jan. 2, 2008
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    Counter Measures: Switching from Rx to OTC

    Switching products from Rx to OTC status can be a viable life-cycle management strategy, one that is expected to be used more frequently. By Cynthia Borda Consumers are increasingly comfortable managing their own healthcare. They want easy access to low-cost, effective, safe, and easy-to-get prod...

    By Cynthia Borda • Jan. 2, 2008
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    Master The New Standard: HBA Leadership Conference

    HBA Leadership Conference Master The New Standard 4th Annual HBA Leadership Conference Attracts More Than 300 Attendees to Boston The 4th Annual Healthcare Businesswomen’s association’s Leadership conference, held in Boston last November, was a two-day event packed with interactive sessions, dist...

    By PharmaVoice Team • Jan. 2, 2008
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    Managed Markets: Formularies

    By Denise Myshko MCOs and PBMs are now applying their cost-management strategies to biotech and specialty drugs. Biologics and injectable medications are coming under increased scrutiny by managed care organizations (MCOs). MCOs, pharmacy benefit management companies (PBMs), and other payers are ...

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

    New Healthcare-related Products, Services, and Companies The breakthrough use of automated data mining and predictive analytics will ultimately make the costly, inefficient one-size-fits-all ‘shotgun’ mass-media marketing approach to consumers obsolete, says Michael D. Weintraub, Founder, Chairma...

    By PharmaVoice Team • Jan. 2, 2008
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    PharmaTrax

    PharmaTrax Sales, Marketing, and R&D Trends from Industry Analysts Scientific Expertise and Good Value Are Important When Choosing a CRO The primary factors pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies consider when selecting a CRO are the strength of its scientific expertise and the cost/value...

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

    Is there anything more personal than healthcare? Whether we are talking about medical records or medicine — personalization is coming into vogue, albeit with a caveat on privacy protection. According to a recent Wall Street Journal Online/Harris Interactive Health-Care poll, when it comes to the ...

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

    On the Cover The age of personalized medicine The study of genomics holds promise for helping to identify better drug targets and guiding companies in designing trials. The hope is that pharmacogenomics will lead to more targeted therapies. Features Patient recruitment marketing Patient recruitme...

    By PharmaVoice Team • Jan. 2, 2008
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    UpFront

    Year in Preview FAST FACTS The Industry at a Glance In 2007, the market will be absorbing changes that have defined a new economic reality, one in which growth is shifting from mature markets to emerging ones; new product adoption is not keeping pace with the loss of patent protection by establis...

    By PharmaVoice Team • Jan. 2, 2008
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    The Broadband Revolution

    The Broadband Revolution Daniel Teper, Pharm.D., MBA, Chairman and CEO The broadband revolution has arrived. The Web 1.0 popularized the Internet; the industry is now ready to embrace the benefits of the broadband technological advances made since the dot.com bubble, such as the delivery of...

    By PharmaVoice Team • Jan. 2, 2008
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    Making Sense of the Tablet PC Revolution in the Pharmaceutical Industry

    Making Sense of the Tablet PC Revolution in the Pharmaceutical Industry Anthony S. Manson, Executive VP, Managing Director E-Sales Just as the iPod changed everything about the music industry, so is the tablet PC about to change the largest sales and marketing line item — the sales represe...

    By PharmaVoice Team • Jan. 2, 2008
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    Partnerships For Success

    Year in Preview Strategic Alliances Strategic alliances — between pharmaceutical companies, contract research organizations, and other outsourcing providers — are expected to impact the future of drug development. Pharmaceutical companies are under pressure from the public, analysts, Wall Street,...

    By PharmaVoice Team • Jan. 2, 2008
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    Then & Now

    Year in Preview Prognostications for the future PharmaVOICE asked several experts who participated in the December 2005 issue to review what they predicted for 2006. We wanted to know if indeed their prognostications for the future came true. In some cases, they were right on, and in other instan...

    By PharmaVoice Team • Jan. 2, 2008
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    Letter from the Editor -- A Year in Preview

    As another year comes to a close, it’s natural to stop and take stock of the events that have shaped the industry and to look ahead in anticipation of what’s next on the horizon. Once again, PharmaVOICE appreciates the time that so many industry executives took out of their busy schedules to comm...

    By Taren Grom • Jan. 2, 2008
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    The 6th 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 The 6th Annual PharmaLinx Charity Golf Outing October 2006 We Extend Thanks to These Companies for Their Contributions Corporate Sponsors GOLD CORPORATE ...

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

    A refreshing focus Pending patent expirations, the FDA, compliance issues, product liability and related lawsuits, stock price pressures, fully integrated and targeted promotion, return on promotional investment, accountability, fair balance, mergers and consolidations, salesforce effectiveness, ...

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

    GSW Launches Pink Tank Specialty marketing group offers expertise in understanding and speaking to women. Remarkably, many marketers don’t realize that women connect with brands differently from men. We established Pink Tank to help companies understand those differences and to counsel them on ho...

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

    Industry Events October 2006 Your Source for Life-Sciences Events and Conference Information Professional education is an ongoing endeavor for most executives. PharmaVOICE has partnerships with every major conference provider serving the life-sciences industry. PharmaVOICE is distributed at more ...

    By PharmaVoice Team • Jan. 2, 2008
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    For Art's Sake

    A creative review by the experts. Each month, this department pays homage to memorable advertising and marketing campaigns. The highlighted executions have been identified by leading creative executives for their noteworthy use of copy, art, photography, whimsy, uniqueness, etc. — in combination ...

    By PharmaVoice Team • Jan. 2, 2008