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When Smaller is Better
BY ROBIN ROBINSON As the industry turns its attention toward specialty products in the hopes of filling drying pipelines, smaller pharma and biotech companies may find themselves in the driver’s seat. Despite all of the hurdles facing the specialty industry — the FDA’s slow down in new drug appro...
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A New Era of Drug Safety
BY DENISE MYSHKO NEW REGULATIONS IN THE UNITED STATES AND EUROPE HAVE TRIGGERED A NEED FOR BETTER TOOLS FOR THE COLLECTING, REPORTING,AND ANALYSIS OF PATIENT SAFETY DATA. As regulators around the globe demand more data on each drug’s profile, the need for technologies to support drug safety has b...
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Explore the Trendline➔
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TrendlineArtificial intelligence & machine learning
After years of excited buzz around the potential of artificial intelligence and machine learning, pharma has begun to realize the true implications and potential value of these technologies.
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The Change Agents
Despite obstacles, these movers and shakers have shouldered the mantle of responsibility and are changing the industry for the better. Jason Appel Jay Bigelow Gregg Brandyberry Santino Costanzo Sean Cunliffe Kathleen Drennan Filipe Duarte Marc Ferrara Thomas Finn Colleen Foley Alberto Grignolo, P...
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Prevention Through Intervention
ISEASEMANAGEMENTISMAKINGACOMEBACK. Health plans are renewing their interest in the old buzz word from the early 1990s as a way to address soaring healthcare costs. Pharmaceutical companies are noting this trend, and some are jump ing right in with new programs to take advantage of this opportunit...
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Let the Games Begin
The influx of Gen-Xers and Yers into today’s workforce is pushing the industry’s conservative management leaders to play more games. Cutting-edge, fast-paced, highly competitive computer-based simulations and games designed to educate as they engage are gaining traction in the industry. The influ...
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Representing the Masses
By Elisabeth Pena Villarroel Forum Associations and organizations throughout the life-sciences represent their members by advocating for professional development, influencing public policy, and providing education and mentoring opportunities for career enhancement. The life-sciences industry’s as...
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Marketplace
Featured Product and Service Showcases AmerisourceBergen Specialty Group Berkery Noyes Biltmore Technoligies Inc. Compass Healthcare Communications Criterium Inc. HealthEd JUICE Pharma Advertising Kinect Medidata Solutions Worldwide Qi, part of CommonHealth SK&A Inf...
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Salesforce Effectiveness: Is the Decile Model Becoming Outmoded?
By Robin Robinson For years pharmaceutical sales teams have targeted physicians based solely on their prescribing volume. Technology advances, process enhancements, and new messaging formats are offering new and improved ways of accessing physicians. Can salesforce optimization technology become ...
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Alternative Media
By Robin Robinson Other industries are venturing into the uncharted waters of emerging and alternative media, but for the most part pharma has decided for now to stay at the shallow end of the pool. There are a few adventurous leaders using more avant-garde methods, such as digital billboards, Po...
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Cancer: Harnessing the Power of the Immune System
These pictures illustrate how Micromet’s BiTE molecule links a T cell with a cancer cell (left), triggering the release of toxic particles by the T cell (middle), and the cancer cell being destroyed (right). This is one approach for employing the body’s immune system to address cancer. Cancer tre...
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E-Solutions Adoption is a Marathon not a Sprint
VIEW on E-Solutions October 2006 E-Solutions Adoption is a Marathon not a Sprint By Daniel Limbach Any mention of e-solutions involves a wide range of technologies. For the purposes of continuity and this publication, we view e-solutions as any electronically based, interactive technol...
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Midsize Pharma: Moving & Shaking the Industry
By Taren Grom, Editor Unlike their large pharmaceutical counterparts, midsize pharmaceutical companies are usually not constrained by huge overheads or layers of bureaucracy. What these companies do have is a more narrow business focus, which allows them to concentrate on specific areas of drug...
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A 360-Degree Approach to Marketing With the Patient at the Center
By Taren Grom A 360-Degree Approach to Marketing With the Patient at the Center As budgets start to shift away from mass-media DTC efforts and slick and glitzy advertising, marketers are going old school, in a sense. There is more focus on the healthcare providers, not just as prescri...
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Name That Brand
Choosing a brand name is the most defining moment in a pharmaceutical product’s life. Name That Brand September 2006 Apharmaceutical product’s brand name is more than a series of letters that identify a chemical compound or biological agent used to treat a specific condition. The brand name evoke...
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The Risk Takers
The entrepreneurial spirit runs deep in these industry vanguards as they carve out new market niches and provide solutions and technologies to improve the healthcare process. Dr. Robert Friedman Pioneering Patient-Centric Telemedicine Patients need to understand why they are prescribed their medi...
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Sales Training Has Never Been More Important
Sales Training has Never Been More Important The Forum By Daniel Limbach Knowledge, relationship building, and technology are some of the key factors that can make a good rep a great rep. More important than ever. Knowledge, relatio...
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Star Quality
PharmaVOICE is once again honored to pay tribute in the following pages to the Healthcare Businesswomen’s Association (HBA) Rising Stars. The Class of 2006 represents a wide range of disciplines, company types, and levels of accomplishment. These women have one thing in common: they have been ide...
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Building on Momentum
Building on Momentum The Forum VIEW on Biotech April 2006 In 2005, biotech companies maintained the momentum that began in 2004, fueled by revenue from marketed biotech drugs ? more than $33 billion in sales. In 2005, Amgen retained its spot as the top bio force with four of the top-...
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Drugs in the Real World
By Denise Myshko A greater regulatory focus on safety means companies are under pressure to provide more information about a prescription drug, as well as about the characteristics of patients, once a product becomes available to the larger marketplace. companies are being asked to provide inform...
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The Medicine Cabinet
Compounds have a one in nine chance of making it through development, according to statistics, but even after reaching the market, each compound faces a whole new set of hurdles: physician adoption, reimbursement, and exposure to supply chain vulnerabilities. December 2005 On the Market Advertisi...
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Marketing's New Frontiers
Primed for a Marketing Revolution According to industry experts, there is going to be a shift in marketing that will include: a move away from rational marketing to emotional brand marketing; initiatives that start earlier in the development cycle with end goals identified; marketing programs th...
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The Change Agents
The Change Agents Identified as vanguards in their respective sectors, these industry leaders are challenging the status quo to make a difference. Dr. Amrit Ray All-Around Global Medical Leadership A passionate leader devoted to bringing new medicines to patients for conditions to which cures hav...
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Modern Marketing in the Making
By Elisabeth Pena Modern Marketing in the Making September 2004 VIEW on Marketing Marketing executives from pharmaceutical, biotechnology, device, and diagnostic companies, ranging in size from small specialty to midtier to large and global, share the common challenges of shorter product life ...
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The State of Advertising
The State of Advertising The commercialization and promotion of pharmaceutical products depends on relationships for success. The attitudes, personalities, and respect that exist throughout the pharmaceutical advertising landscape play an important role in the evolution of a brand, and are a v...
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Talent Pool
executive appointments and promotions in the healthcare industry Pharma POOL Robert Boisclair Dr. Richard Bowles Steve Chellevold Mary-Frances Faraji Brent Saunders Schering-Plough Announces Senior-Level Management Changes Schering-Plough, Kenilworth, N.J., has made senior-level management change...
By PharmaVoice Team • Jan. 2, 2008
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