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PharmaTrax
Sales, Marketing, and R&D Trends from Industry Analysts Featured Briefs: Most Doctors Prefer CME Promotion by E-mail Pharma Advised to Focus Social Media Efforts on Education Pharma Ramps Up Regulatory Affairs Delivering Articulate Message Key to Managed Markets Access Sidebar: Q. Which of...
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E-Media
New Electronic and Web-based Applications, Sites, and Technologies Featured Briefs: BioClinica Launches System for Clinical-Trial Supply Planning New Quintiles Tool Accelerates Trial Recruitment Sidus Group Adds Life-Sciences Hosting Solution Paragon, NextDocs Collaborate on Clinical Optimizat...
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Explore the Trendline➔
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TrendlineBig Pharma Business Strategies
Large pharmas are consistently tasked with the goal of growth. But in recent years, the upward trajectory has been littered with new hurdles.
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What's New
New Healthcare-related Products, Services, and Companies Featured Briefs: TGaS Model Helps Solve Managed Markets Staffing Dilemma Razorfish Launches Independent, Dedicated Health Division FDA, NIH Collaborate to Speed Release of Medical Innovations Sidebar: On The Shelves PSKW Adds Loyalty Relat...
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Case Study: EpiCept
Named Patient Programs Provide Pre-Launch Access to Drugs The dire outlook facing AML patients motivated a company to provide its drug in advance of the commercial launch. Jack V. Talley President and CEO, EpiCept EpiCept is a specialty pharmaceutical company that focuses on fulfilling unmet med...
By Jack V. Talley President and CEO • April 28, 2010 -
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UpFront
Market Report U.S. Prescription Sales Grow U.S. sales of ethical pharmaceuticals and insulins through retail and non-retail channels grew 5.1% in 2009, reaching $300.3 billion, compared with growth of 1.8% in 2008. While the 32 innovative products launched last year brought important new treatm...
By PharmaVoice Team • April 28, 2010 -
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Table of Contents
10 Molecule to Market The drug development process from lead generation to patent expiration is complex, fraught with risk, and extremely time and cost intensive. 16 Drug Discovery Pharmaceutical companies are using state-of-the-art technologies to understand the basis of disease as a way to brin...
By PharmaVoice Team • April 5, 2010 -
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Contents
4 Ap r i l 201 0 Pharm aVOICE 34 James Sapirstein: Steering a Winning Course Managing a biotech company through the myriad obstacles companies face is difficult at the best of times; today it is much more taxing. James Sapirstein is proving that he has what it takes to put Tobira Therapeutics on ...
By PharmaVoice Team • March 23, 2010 -
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SHOWCASE FEATURE: IRBs
In accordance with federal regulations, an IRB has the authority to approve, require modifications in (to secure approval), or disapprove research. This review serves an important role in the protection of the rights and welfare of human research subjects. According to the Consortium of Independe...
By PharmaVoice Team • March 23, 2010 -
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Brand Management: Using Market Research To Master Multichannel Challenges
It’s a noisy, cluttered, and competitive market out there, with consumers receiving more messages from more channels — so how can a brand stand out? Everyone knows the right-right–right rule (right message at the right time to the right target), but in today’s environment, every moment represents...
By PharmaVoice Team • March 23, 2010 -
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Specialty CROs: Market Opportunities
The need for efficient drug development, as well as advances in technology and medical research, have spurred the growth of the smaller, more focused contract research organizations. These smaller CROs may offer preclinical and early-stage clinical research services such as toxicology, process de...
By PharmaVoice Team • March 23, 2010 -
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Last Word
The Acquisition by Medco What does DNA Direct bring to Medco? PHELAN. Medco’s healthcare clients, whether they are large self-insured employers or health plans, are all looking for better patient outcomes and quality of service, as well as reduced costs. DNA Direct helps with the interpretation o...
By PharmaVoice Team • March 23, 2010 -
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Talent Pool
Pharmaceutical POOL Dr. Jay FEINGOLD DSI Strengthens Expertise in Oncology Daiichi Sankyo Inc. (DSI) has appointed Jay Feingold, M.D., Ph.D., to manage the strategic direction of its medical affairs department as VP of medical affairs. DSI is the U.S. subsidiary of Tokyo-based Daiichi Sankyo Co.,...
By PharmaVoice Team • March 22, 2010 -
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What's New
New Healthcare-related Products, Services, and Companies Featured Briefs: CMR Institute Broadens Curriculum to Offer Targeted Educational Solutions MedTera Specializes in Integrated Healthcare Marketing Mayo Clinic Collaborates with Centerphase to Provide Clinical-Trial Services Velocity Offers ...
By PharmaVoice Team • March 22, 2010 -
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E-Media
New Electronic and Web-based Applications, Sites, and Technologies Featured Briefs: Intrasphere Solution Keeps Pace with Clinical Trial Disclosure Requirements New Tool Measures Sales Team’s Grasp of Managed Markets Concepts PPD Unveils Centralized Biostatistics Technology Infrastructure Model...
By PharmaVoice Team • March 22, 2010 -
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PharmaTrax
More Consumers Going Online for Pharma Info The number of people using the Internet to obtain information on prescription drugs has tripled over the past five years, and more than 100 million consumers, or 44% of U.S. adults, are now what Manhattan Research terms “ePharma Consumers." According t...
By PharmaVoice Team • March 22, 2010 -
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UpFront
Honors and Awards Kendle, Quintiles Named to Training Top 125 Kendle and Quintiles have been named to Training magazine’s Training Top 125, an annual list of the 125 companies that are unsurpassed in harnessing human capital. The Training Top 125 rankings are based on a wide array of benchmarkin...
By PharmaVoice Team • March 22, 2010 -
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Letter from the Editor
Ahhh sweet spring… There are a few among us who are no doubt wishing for one more super snow storm (a couple I know very well), but for most of us in the Northeast who have been buried under feet of snow for most of the winter, we couldn’t be more excited to see the first signs of spring, well…sp...
By PharmaVoice Team • March 22, 2010 -
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Molecule to Market: A Drug-Development Timeline
According to the most recent report from the Tufts Center for the Study of Drug Development, it takes about 10 years on average for an experimental drug to travel from the lab to U.S. patients. Only five in 5,000 compounds that enter preclinical testing make it to human testing, and of these five...
By Taren Grom • March 5, 2010 -
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Experts
John C. Andrews, Ph.D. Director of Regulatory Affairs, Americas, Chiltern, a global CRO. For more information, visit chiltern.com. Jerome Bailey. VP, Early Phase Business Center, Omnicare Clinical Research, a full-service CRO with diverse therapeutic expertise and comprehensive clinical service o...
By PharmaVoice Team • March 4, 2010 -
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Phase IV: Technology Solutions
According to John Hall, global medical affairs, epidemiology and outcomes research, at Quintiles, electronic health record providers are at the leading edge of new solutions, and are providing more effective ways to collect data while protecting physician relationships. The industry faces several...
By Robin Robinson • March 4, 2010 -
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Phase III: Market Preparation
How the brand begins to be positioned across the spectrum of medical communications — specifically how the science behind the brand and trial results begin to be discussed at global and local congresses, from interactive and traditional exhibit stands to symposia, from posters to special social e...
By Robin Robinson • March 4, 2010 -
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Phase III Trials: Patient Recruitment and Data Collection
Two of the biggest bottlenecks in the drug development process, particularly at the Phase III juncture, are patient recruitment and data management. Experts say technology, partnering, and strategic planning can improve Phase III clinical trial efficiency. Phase III: Recruitment Technologies Acc...
By Robin Robinson • March 4, 2010 -
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Phase II: Testing Efficacy, Planning for Marketing
Pharmaceutical companies and their partners are working to address productivity and create efficiency in Phase II development. New types of trial designs, such as adaptive trials, are being considered as solutions to these perennial issues. “There are innovative ways in which biopharmaceutical co...
By Denise Myshko • March 4, 2010 -
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Phase I: Patient Recruitment
According to Peter Smith, Ph.D., senior VP, nonclinical development sciences at Millennium Pharmaceuticals: The Takeda Oncology Company, shortages in funding, manpower, and patient availability have created the proverbial perfect storm in the current clinical trial system. “The fact that traditio...
By Denise Myshko • March 4, 2010 -
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Phase I: From Animals to First-in-Human Studies
The simple study designs of the past have been replaced with more complex designs with the addition of more screening and study procedures, biomarkers, and pharmacokinetic samples requirements, as well as longer study exposure periods. The trend today is conducting more rigorous, early-phase clin...
By Denise Myshko • March 4, 2010
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