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Pharmacy Direct
In an effort to make it EASIER FOR PATIENTS to fill their prescriptions, some doctors’practices are bringing in VENDING MACHINE STYLE dispensers. BY JEAN LAWRENCE When patients leave Abbott Northwestern hospital in Minneapolis, they can now head straight home rather than to the drugstore. They al...
By Jean Lawrence • Nov. 4, 2009 -
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Animal Farm — The Promise of Xenotransplantation
Animal Farm BY DENISE MYSHKO NO ONE WOULD DISPUTE THAT THERE IS A SHORTAGE OF HEARTS, KIDNEYS, OR LIVERS FOR THOSE WHO REQUIRE A NEW ONE. Last year in the United States alone, 6,000 people died while awaiting an organ transplant. Campaigns to increase organ donation have been somewhat successful ...
By PharmaVoice Team • Nov. 4, 2009 -
Explore the Trendline➔
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As the pharma industry stares down a historic patent cliff, macroeconomic headwinds and challenging R&D costs for increasingly complex medicines, nailing the launch of new medicines has become increasingly critical.
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Talent Pool
Pharma POOL Andrew R.J. BONFIELD Bristol Myers Squibb Appoints New Senior VP and Chief Financial Officer Andrew R.J. Bonfield joins Bristol Myers Squibb as senior VP and chief financial officer. Mr. Bonfield, 39, served most recently as executive director of finance at BGGroup Plc., a multibillio...
By PharmaVoice Team • Nov. 3, 2009 -
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Pharma Outlet
There is a movement afoot to reform the system enacted to address patent disputes between pioneer drug developers and their generic drug competitors. When this system, referred to as the HatchWaxman Act, was passed in 1984, it was intended to balance the competing interests of pioneer pharmaceuti...
By Barbara Carter • Nov. 2, 2009 -
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CROs: Mission Possible
MISSION ANALYSTS … JOSEPH AVELLONE,M.D. President and CEO,Veritas Medicine Inc., Cambridge, Mass.;Veritas Medicine is a leading provider of Internet and patientdatabase services to identify and recruit patients into appropriate clinical trials ALFRED G.CHILDERS,PH.D. Principal and president of ad...
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Image is Everything
Research into the human genome and intricate studies of disease states are opening the door to personalized therapy. But for those therapies to reach the right target audience, accurate and early diagnosis of disease are essential. Amersham Health, which develops and markets diagnostic pharmaceut...
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Standardized Development Metrics
The use of standardized performance metrics by drug developers — CROs and sponsors — to reduce clinical development time and to improve deliverables is more essential than ever for success. BY ROBIN ROBINSON Many companies have attempted to come up with ways to better manage the clinical-trial pr...
By PharmaVoice Team • March 31, 2009 -
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Letter from the Editor
PUBLISHER Lisa Banket EDITOR Taren Grom CREATIVE DIRECTOR Marah Walsh CONTRIBUTING EDITORS Diane Hoffman Virginia Kirk Denise Myshko Kim Ribbink Deborah Ruriani Lynda Sears Copyright 2002 by PharmaLinx LLC, Titusville, NJ Printed in the U.S.A. Volume Two, Number One PharmaVoice is published eight...
By PharmaVoice Team • March 10, 2009 -
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Talent Pool
Pharma POOL David Albachten Novo Nordisk promotes senior executive to VP, managed care, trade and government Novo Nordisk Pharmaceuticals Inc. has promoted David Albachten to VP, managed care, trade and government. Mr. Albachten was associate VP. Martin Soeters, Novo Nordisk president says: “The ...
By PharmaVoice Team • Feb. 12, 2009 -
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Salesforces
SALES & Marketing Salesforces The Salesforce of the Future: MORE SERVICE, LESS SELL As companies — Sanofi-Aventis, Merck, Wyeth, Schering-Plough, Novartis — continue to make headlines for collectively laying off thousands of sales representatives, the industry looks for innovative ways to do ...
By PharmaVoice Team • Nov. 22, 2008 -
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E-Media
NEW ELECTRONIC AND WEB BASED APPLICATIONS, SITES, AND TECHNOLOGIES The latest interactive sales training guide from Total Learning Concepts, Introduction to Pharmaceutical Sales, uses the company’s serious gaming technology platform, Qube, to provide a comprehensive primer for under standing and ...
By PharmaVoice Team • Nov. 22, 2008 -
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Generics Looming Larger Than Ever
As generic companies continue to expand and consolidate, they are likely to step up their efforts to explore options for developing products beyond chemical equivalents, moving into specialty generics, bio generics, and proprietary molecules. As a result, the generics market is fast becoming a wo...
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Cover
PharmaVOICE PharmaVOICE 100 THE FORUM FOR THE INDUSTRY EXECUTIVE July/August 2008 SPECIAL ISSUE 100 of the Most Inspiring People www.pharmavoice.com Download PDF
By PharmaVoice Team • July 28, 2008 -
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Letter from the Editor
PharmaVOICE is delighted to publish the fourth annual special issue featuring 100 of the most inspiring individuals in the life-sciences industry. This issue has become one of my favorites and, from all accounts, one of yours as well. What’s not to love? This issue celebrates the men and women of...
By Taren Grom • July 27, 2008 -
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The Mentors
Brian Corvino Mary Lacquaniti Lelia O’Connor Danita Sutton, Ph.D. MENTORING AND SHAPING THE CAREERS OF OTHERS ARE VENERABLE AND ADMIRABLE TALENTS. MENTORING TAKES PATIENCE, FORESIGHT, AND UNSELFISH DEVOTIONTO OTHERS’ SUCCESS and is a skill that is often unheralded — until now. We salute those who...
By PharmaVoice Team • July 24, 2008 -
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The Technologists
Valdo Arnera, M.D. Bill Byrom, Ph.D. Philip A. Garland Keith Howells Don Schenker Rodney Spady A creative and passionate approach to pioneering new areas of technology applications and new products has enabled Dr. Bill Byrom to engender real improvements in the drug development process. For the p...
By PharmaVoice Team • July 24, 2008 -
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Talent Pool
Pharma POOL Dr. Peter KRUSE Tom MARTIN Dr. Brett E. SKOLNICK Novo Nordisk Expands Clinical Development Staff in U.S. BioPharmaceuticals Division, Promotes IT Staff Member Novo Nordisk has announced the appoint ment of Brett E. Skolnick, Ph.D., as director of clinical research, and Peter Kruse, M....
By PharmaVoice Team • April 24, 2008 -
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Bring in the Middlemen
Third-party consultants are an enduring part of the business landscape. These independent mediators can HELP MANAGE THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN CLIENTS AND SUPPLIERS, creating a MORE EFFECTIVE AND LONG-LASTING PARTNERSHIP. BY KIM RIBBINK OUTSOURCING is a way of life for the pharmaceutical industry. ...
By PharmaVoice Team • April 21, 2008 -
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Biotech Life-Cycle Management
10 J u n e 20 03 PharmaVOICE THE MANAGEMENTTEAM … CAROLCHERKIS,PH.D. Life sciences consultant,NewCap Partners Inc., Los Angeles; NewCap Partners is a private investment banking firm that focuses on the finance needs of middlemarket companies.For more information, visit newcap.com. TILLMAN U.GERNG...
By PharmaVoice Team • April 17, 2008 -
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A View on Advertising — A Shifting Landscape
6 Ma r ch 20 08 VIEW on Advertising THE FORUM The advertising focus may be moving away from center — traditional media such as television and print — as emerging media, such as Web 2.0, and alternative vehicles such as Pod casts, search engines, etc., begin to establish a firmer foothold in the m...
By PharmaVoice Team • March 24, 2008 -
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On the Calendar
March 1718 3rd Imaging in Preclinical &Clinical Drug Development San Diego For more information, contact Vivian Frankel, GTCBio, at 6262566405, email [email protected], or visit gtcbio.com. March 1718 The Inaugural U.S.Conference on Comparator Studies Doubletree Hotel,Philadelphia For...
By PharmaVoice Team • March 2, 2008 -
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E-Media
NEW ELECTRONIC AND WEBBASED APPLICATIONS, SITES, AND TECHNOLOGIES Edge Dynamics has added a flexible desktop module within its Demand Management Suite that offers lifesciences manufacturers a way to easily monitor and analyze channel activity data for their products. The Edge Dynamics Demand Dash...
By PharmaVoice Team • March 2, 2008 -
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What's New
WHAT’S NEW NEW HEALTHCARERELATED PRODUCTS, SERVICES, AND COMPANIES HealthEd Group has launched HealthEd Encore, which operates as a standalone agency, in response to increas ing client demand for educational patient marketing campaigns. HealthEd Encore offers a fullrange of ser vices, including c...
By PharmaVoice Team • March 2, 2008 -
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PharmaTrax
Best practices in planning and targeting and conducting office calls, as well as management of relationships, samples, programs, and salesforces are explored. These include the use of automated for mulary data and thoughtleader information to develop sales messages that anticipate formulary restr...
By PharmaVoice Team • March 2, 2008 -
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Biogenerics at a Crossroads
By Cynthia Borda Over the past few years, several forces have begun to converge that will likely shift the entire biomarket’s dynamics. Patents of top-selling biotechnology products have lost or will lose patent protection in the next half dozen years (see chart on page 46 for more information). ...
By Cynthia Borda • Jan. 2, 2008
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