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Take Charge of Your Career: Next Steps
Experts discuss the importance of mentoring, sponsorship, and coaching in career development. Mentoring has been a common tool to help employees learn from and take advantage of the experience of others. A consensus among our experts is that all employees can benefit from having mentors at differ...
By Denise Myshko • Sept. 27, 2012 -
France Puts Health on the Map
France is renowned for the quality of its healthcare system, competitive R&D environment, and worldwide translational medicine centers of excellence in several disease states. By Kim Ribbink France is a leading light in the area of healthcare and pharmaceuticals. Today, France is the secon...
By PharmaVoice Team • March 26, 2012 -
Trendline
Commercialization, marketing and social media
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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Safety and Pharmacovigilance: A Moving Target
Robin Robinson The industry has always been under extreme scrutiny by regulators and the public, but the current business environment creates even more pressure on the pharmaceutical industry to stay compliant. Regulations and procedures are not only tightening but continually developing and c...
By PharmaVoice Team • Jan. 27, 2012 -
The Entrepreneurs
Matthew Baker Compass IRB LLC William Buzzeo Cegedim Compliance Solutions Prabhavathi Fernandes Cempra Pharmaceuticals Sander Flaum Flaum Idea Group Joy Frestedt Frestedt Inc. Michael Jirousek, Ph.D. Catabasis Pharmaceuticals Mark Lacy Benchmark Research Lance Nickens The Patient Recruiting Agenc...
By PharmaVoice Team • July 26, 2011 -
CSR Gets a Makeover
Corporate social responsibility (CSR) policies have been in place for decades at most companies, but the increased social awareness of today’s consumers has stepped up the visibility of such programs. The state of the world’s economy, the ever-evolving business environment, and an overall growth ...
By PharmaVoice Team • May 24, 2011 -
HBA's 2011: Rising Stars
These high-potential women, who represent all facets and disciplines of the life-sciences industry, are being recognized by their companies for: Significantly contributing to their organizations. Exemplifying true leadership and acting as a role model for others. Assisting those in subordinat...
By PharmaVoice Team • April 25, 2011 -
Tapping Into the Power by Getting Personal
More and more patients are using Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, and other social media outlets to discuss their health and treatments with peers and caregivers. Social media tools have become an effective way to expand reach, foster engagement, and increase access to credible, science-based health m...
By PharmaVoice Team • April 25, 2011 -
Showcase Feature: Sales Training in Transition
As the pharmaceutical industry transitions to new customer-centric models, a complex payer environment, and higher-level technology, the traditional sales representative role is shifting to that of a key account manager, and training models are evolving accordingly. Trends such as the increasing...
By PharmaVoice Team • March 28, 2011 -
Thought Leaders
Ryan Abbate. President, Pacific Communications, a healthcare communications agency that offers strategic and tactical communications solutions. For more information, visit pacific-com.com. Edward Abrahams, Ph.D. President,The Personalized Medicine Coalition, which brings together the academ...
By PharmaVoice Team • March 7, 2011 -
Millennials: Problems or Prodigies?
Our experts say, however, this is a generation worth catering to, because if they are happy, they will most certainly succeed. Getting all four generations to work together effectively is challenging because the generations have difficulty relating to one another as they interact in the workplace...
By PharmaVoice Team • Dec. 27, 2010 -
E-Media
New Electronic and Web-based Applications, Sites, and Technologies Featured Briefs: Tibco Unveils Solution for Accelerating Drug Development C3i Offers Subscription-Based Data Management Hosting Medidata Adds Supply Management, Source Document Verification Solutions Chiltern Solution Consolidates...
By PharmaVoice Team • Aug. 26, 2010 -
The CREATIVES
Let the Force be Creative These rock stars of healthcare advertising are infusing their creative passion and energy into healthcare communications across all media. There is no off switch for Jamie Cobb, Executive Creative Director at MicroMass Communications; he is always on, always thinking, a...
By PharmaVoice Team • July 28, 2010 -
The MARKETERS
The next big idea lies in pushing beyond comfort zones, and Dan Bobear fearlessly tackles issues head-on and challenges all who work with him to feed their minds to achieve marketing excellence. In leading his team at Palio, he breaks down the unpredictable and channels his colleagues’ energy a...
By PharmaVoice Team • July 28, 2010 -
Haiti: A Beacon of Hope Through the Rubble
The pharmaceutical and biotech industry is one built upon the foundations of human fragility. It is a business of identifying physiological weaknesses and developing the medicines and products to address those faults, thus resulting in an enhanced standard of living and optimum health for the hum...
By Kelly Markham • April 28, 2010 -
The New Washington Office
The legislative push for healthcare reform came with a speed and scope that surprised many in the pharmaceutical industry, drawing new attention to the Washington, D.C., offices of many drug companies. With this new attention comes the potential for new roles and responsibilities for Washington-b...
By Dennis R. Cryer • Jan. 26, 2010 -
PDUFA III
As time was about to expire, Congress approved legislation reauthorizing the Prescription Drug User Fee Act of 1992 (PDUFA) for five years. The reauthorization of PDUFA was included in the bioterrorism leg islation passed in May by both houses of Congress, and was signed into law by President Bus...
By PharmaVoice Team • Jan. 14, 2010 -
Thought-Full Relationships
In the drive for market success, top companies are harnessing and capitalizing on knowledge “owned” by specialists, often referred to as thought leaders. According to Best Practices Inc., Pfizer successfully employed thoughtleader endorsements by consulting the Vatican when releasing Viagra and l...
By PharmaVoice Team • Jan. 14, 2010 -
Talent Pool
Pharma POOL Margaret M.FORAN Chuck HARDWICK Pat KELLY Ian READ Pfizer Names Presidents for U.S., European Pharmaceuticals Businesses,Head of Corporate Affairs, and Corporate Secretary Pat Kelly and Ian Read have been appointed presidents responsible for the U.S. and European pharmaceuticals busin...
By PharmaVoice Team • Jan. 11, 2010 -
What's New
WHAT’S NEW NEW HEALTHCARE RELATED PRODUCTS, SERVICES, AND COMPANIES In response to the growing demand for quality patient education, two top ranked healthcare divisions of Vox Medica Inc. — CoMed Communications Inc., a strategic medical education and communications company, and Signova Inc.,a hea...
By PharmaVoice Team • Nov. 3, 2009 -
E-learning: A Virtual Classroom
Pharmaceutical companies are jumping on board the etrain as a way to better manage their internal learning initiatives The THE CLICK MAY NEVER REPLACE THE NO. 2 PENCIL, but elearning is becoming the teacher’s pet in terms of reach, content flexibility, access, and alleviating outofoffice downtime...
By PharmaVoice Team • Nov. 2, 2009 -
Sales Reps — What's Up Doc?
The relationship between the pharmaceutical sales representative and the physician has undergone a dramatic shift in recent years. In the past, the sales representative provided value to the physician, had an established and meaningful rela tionship, engaged in an interactive dialog, and acted as...
By PharmaVoice Team • Nov. 2, 2009 -
Creating Opportunity From Diversity
bring messages about their products to diverse groups in a way that is culturally sensitive, that will garner longterm goodwill of the communities, and that address the most press ing health concerns facing various racial and ethnic groups. Developing diverse marketing promotions and programs whe...
By PharmaVoice Team • Nov. 2, 2009 -
Planting the Seeds of a Blockbuster
Until fairly recently, top tier pharmaceutical companies obtained license rights to a product developed by a biotechnology company, thereby infusing much needed capital for furtherance of clinical research. In return, the pharmaceutical company obtained outright or major ity rights to marketing a...
By PharmaVoice Team • Oct. 23, 2009 -
Coming Into Focus
The pharmaceutical powerhouses have either been U.S. or European companies, and all have extensive operations in the U.S. Of the top 10 pharmaceutical companies, six are U.S.based companies, the remaining four have their headquarters either in the United Kingdom or continental Europe, according t...
By PharmaVoice Team • Oct. 23, 2009 -
Beyond the Genome — Proteomics
Drug discovery in the postgenomic era will lead researchers to focus on the proteins and biological mechanisms that cause disease as a way to develop new types of treatments that are safer and more effective BY DENISE MYSHKO When the initial map of the human genome was first published in February...
By PharmaVoice Team • Oct. 23, 2009