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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...

    By Taren Grom • Jan. 2, 2008
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    What's New

    What’s new New healthcare-related products, services, and companies CommonHealth Launches Interactive Agency Qi Interactive addresses clients’ digital and online needs. CommonHealth has launched Qi Interactive, a full-service digital agency. The new unit focuses on interactive and Web-based solut...

    By PharmaVoice Team • Jan. 2, 2008
  • Trendline

    Artificial 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.

    By PharmaVoice staff
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    PharmaTrax

    Pharma Trax Sales, Marketing, and R&D Trends Affecting the Healthcare Industry Public Awareness of Clinical Trials Grows Awareness of clinical trials among the general public has grown over the last three years, while physicians struggle to find the time, personnel, and resources to participa...

    By PharmaVoice Team • Jan. 2, 2008
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    PharmaOutlet

    Contributed by Mark A. Goldberg, M.D. Technology in Clinical Trials An Evolving Industry The conclusion of the 2004 Drug Information Association (DIA) meeting provides an opportunity to reflect on the current status of technology in clinical trials. The content of the scientific sessions, as well...

    By PharmaVoice Team • Jan. 2, 2008
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    What's on Your Mind -- Opinions

    What’s on your mind Opinions Registering results: A public database of clinical-trial information Consumer groups, professional medical associations, and medical journals are calling for public disclosure of all medical studies and drug manufacturers to register their clinical trials in a public ...

    By PharmaVoice Team • Jan. 2, 2008
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    Electronic Data Integrity in the Drug-Development Process

    View on Data Integrity Electronic Data Integrity drug-development process In an exclusive to PharmaVOICE, Peter M. Smith, Ph.D., project manager at Taratec Development Corp., discusses the importance of electronic data integrity in the drug-development process. A guiding principle in thinking abo...

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

    E-Media New electronic and web-based applications, sites, and technologies Suite of Drug-Development Tools Is Available From Bruker Daltonics Bruker Daltonics has introduced the PharmaTools suite of products, which includes a feature to automatically build up libraries, i.e. for natural compounds...

    By PharmaVoice Team • Jan. 2, 2008
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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...

    By PharmaVoice Team • Jan. 2, 2008
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    Patient Registries: Observations of the Real World

    Patient registries Observations of the Real World By Denise Myshko There is no such thing as a standard registry. We have to strike a balance: do we ask a lot of questions or just a few? We also need to consider the work load for the investigators. DR. herve Caspard Through patient registries, ph...

    By Denise Myshko • Jan. 2, 2008
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    For Art's Sake

    Creative Review 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 brand...

    By PharmaVoice Team • Jan. 2, 2008
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    PharmaTrax

    Pharma Trax Sales, Marketing, and R&D Trends affecting the healthcare industry The Biodefense Market to Grow Biodefense research is one of the fastest growing markets for suppliers of life-sciences products and instrumentation. When the budget allocated to the Department of Health and Human S...

    By PharmaVoice Team • Jan. 2, 2008
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    PharmaOutlet

    Contributed by Sherry Reuter Pretrial Questionnaires may not be Predictors of Site Performance While it is standard procedure to send pretrial questionnaires to choose potential sites, more than 94% of clinical trials in the United States fail to complete on time because of enrollment difficultie...

    By PharmaVoice Team • Jan. 2, 2008
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    Guiding Principals of Submission Process Management

    View on Submission Process Management Guiding Principals of Submission Process Management As the industry moves toward an ever-increasing volume of electronic submissions, managing the volume and complexity becomes a daunting task. Jim Walker Process management is an emerging concept in the world...

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

    E-Media New electronic and Web-based applications, sites, and technologies SciQuest Offering Helps Organizations Manage Diversity Supplier Relationships SciQuest Inc. has launched Diversity Supplier Manager, the latest offering in a suite of on-demand supplier relationship management (SRM) softwa...

    By PharmaVoice Team • Jan. 2, 2008
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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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    What's on Your Mind -- Opinions

    A Technology Revolution The pharmaceutical industry spends about $20 billion a year on IT, but rarely reaps the full rewards of the investment, according to a report by IBM Business Consulting Services. The scale of pharma’ s IT expenditure is not a problem, as long as it delivers a positive retu...

    By PharmaVoice Team • Jan. 2, 2008
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    Edward J. Ludwig -- A Global Citizen in a Changing World

    BD, a 100-plus-year-old medical-technology company, is blazing a global path with a purpose of helping all people live healthy lives thanks in large part to the progressive and determined efforts of its Chairman, President, and CEO, Edward J. Ludwig. Edward J. Ludwig, who has spent 25 years at BD...

    By Kim Ribbink • Jan. 2, 2008
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    PharmaTrax

    Sales, Marketing, and R&D Trends from Industry Analysts Featured Briefs: A Look at Americans’ Health and Wellness Sidebar: How Americans View Stem-Cell Research Support for Stem-Cell Research Increases Sidebar: The Tufts CSDD Survey Findings Cost Considerations Drive Formulary Approv...

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

    On the Cover Era of Efficiency? Provider Selection and the RFP Process Service providers to the pharmaceutical industry, from agencies to CROs to IT companies to market-research firms, are facing a paradigm shift as sponsors continue to move the provider selection process into the hands of procu...

    By PharmaVoice Team • Jan. 2, 2008
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    Cover

    Featured on the Cover A Shift in the RFP Process Driving Performance with Edward Ludwig Biosimulation Advancing Drug Discovery Download PDF

    By PharmaVoice Team • Jan. 2, 2008
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    Learning How Doctors Learn: Research to Realism in CME

    View on CME In an exclusive to PharmaVOICE, Anne Goodrich, Director of Research at The Pri-Med Institute, and Joe Panepinto, Ph.D., VP at Pri-Med Online, discuss four key themes for the success of any CME enterprise aimed at practicing clinicians. The continuous challenge for providers of profess...

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

    New Electronic and Web-based Applications, Sites, and Technologies Featured Briefs: McGraw-Hill Medical Releases Online Health Reference AXIS Healthcare Launches New Website Life-Sciences Recruiting Site is Available Model N Offers Medicaid Claims Processing Application Skyscape Offers Refe...

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

    New Healthcare-Related Products, Services, and Companies Featured Briefs: CMP Healthcare Media to Launch Comprehensive Neurology Publication Elsevier/International Medical News Group Launches Clinical Neurology News ACRO Establishes Global Influence Paradigm Genetics Undergoes Change, rena...

    By PharmaVoice Team • Jan. 2, 2008
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    Virtual Research Comes of Age

    Through predictive biosimulation technologies that replicate experiments in a computer, companies are starting to reduce the time it takes to identify possible drug targets. Imagine a world where drug-discovery researchers have powerful tools at hand that enable them to create computer models of ...

    By Denise Myshko • Jan. 2, 2008
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    On the Calendar

    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 than 150 industry events a ye...

    By PharmaVoice Team • Jan. 2, 2008