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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
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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
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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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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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The Reputation Matrix

The pharmaceutical industry is in some respects the victim of its own success. In fact, some public relations experts believe that the industry suffers from cognitive dissonance. “Many people are not comfortable viewing an industry responsible for developing innovative medicines as being a profit...
By Denise Myshko • Sept. 28, 2009
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A Publication Planning Update

Title VIII of FDAAA, which requires the posting of clinical trial data within one year from last patient last visit, puts the squeeze on publication planners to get study results published in a very tight time frame. The Title VIII section of the Food and Drug Administration Amendments Act (F...
By Robin Robinson • Sept. 28, 2009
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Who's on the List by Section

The Commanders & Chiefs 12 Ahsan Awan Ross Bjella Laurie Cooke, R.Ph. John Farinacci Tuan Ha-Ngoc Fred Hassan Thomas Hughes, Ph.D. Greg Johnson Rick Keefer Kyle Kennedy William Maichle John Maraganore, Ph.D. Francois Nader, M.D. Nader Naeymi-Rad Angus Russell Laurent Schockmel, DVM Jeffrey St...
By PharmaVoice Team • July 30, 2009
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The Reading List

NON-FICTION Memo to the President: How We Can Restore America’s Reputation and Leadership • Madeleine Albright Making it all Work: Winning at the Game of Work and the Business of Life • David Allen Who Goes First?: The Story of Self-Experimentation in Medicine • Lawrence K. Altman It’s Not About ...
By PharmaVoice Team • July 30, 2009
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Predicting the Future The Business Case for Forecasting

By Kim Ribbink Risk is an inherent part of the pharmaceutical business — risk of failure in clinical trials, risk that a product won’t achieve regulatory approval, risk that a product underperforms in the market, and risk of withdrawal after adverse reactions and the costly lawsuits that can foll...
By PharmaVoice Team • March 25, 2009
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UpFront

Investment Portfolio R&D Spending by U.S. Biopharmaceutical Companies Increases 3% in 2008 A new report reveals that R&D investment in new medicines by the biopharmaceutical industry was $65.2 billion in 2008, an increase of 3% from 2007, according to a combined analysis conducted by Burr...
By PharmaVoice Team • March 25, 2009
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E-Media

NEW ELECTRONIC AND WEBBASED APPLICATIONS, SITES, AND TECHNOLOGIES ePocrates To Collaborate With Express Scripts on HANDHELD FORMULARY INITIATIVE ePocrates has agreed to incorporate the formu lary information of Express Scripts Inc., a national pharmacy benefits manager, into the ePocrates Rx Form...
By PharmaVoice Team • March 11, 2009
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PharmaOutlet

The hottest concept in pharmaceutical marketing and PR today — for that matter the hottest concept in all marketing today — is so old that it didn’t seem at all out of place when it turned up in a lyric in the biblical rock opera, Jesus Christ Superstar: “What’s the Buzz, tell us what’s a happeni...
By Robert Chandler and Gianfranco Chicco • March 10, 2009
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Letter from the Editor

America’s pharmaceutical industry is helping the process of healing the nation in the wake of September 11th. Within hours of the terrorist attacks on New York and Washington, America’s pharmaceutical companies responded with medicines and vaccines, supplies for workers and rescuers, and aid for ...
By Taren Grom • Feb. 17, 2009
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HBA Leadership Conference

1. Chicago served as the host city for the 6th Annual HBA Leadeship Conference. 2. Arlene Kirsh, GlaxoSmithKline, and Leadership Conference Chair and Director of Professional Development, Laurie Cooke, HBA CEO, and Catherine Sohn, GlaxoSmithKline, and Past WOTY, take a moment during star gazing a...
By PharmaVoice Team • Jan. 28, 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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Letter from the Editor

Pharmaceutical companies as well as their partners are feeling the heat. They are facing unprecedented challenges on a global scale. More so than ever, their business strategies are being put to the test. How well they do will depend on the resilience of their operations and the vision of their l...
By Taren Grom • Nov. 22, 2008
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Medicare Incentives Push E-Prescribing to Top of Mind

2008 VIEW on ESolutions EPRESCRIBING It’s no secret that thousands of private practice physicians throughout the country face a financial crunch. Declining reimbursement rates have produced a profoundly negative impact in several areas of healthcare — particularly in oncology, nephrology and othe...
By PharmaVoice Team • Oct. 24, 2008
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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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A Growing Community of Good Citizens, Part II

SPECIAL FEATURE # CITIZENS PHILANTHROPY HAS BECOME PART AND PARCEL OF CORPORATE LIFE IN MANY NATIONS.FOR SOME COMPANIES IN THE LIFESCIENCES, HOWEVER,THERE IS A GROWING DESIRE TO TAKE THAT ONE STEP FURTHERWITH GRASSROOTSVOLUNTEERISM. Last month, PharmaVOICE told its readers about some of the remar...
By Kim Ribbink • May 27, 2008