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Despite historic risk during the metamorphosis from glamorous high-tech startup to pillar-of-the-community manufacturer-employer, biopharmaceutical companies remain near the top of the list of industries that US states see as key to their economic future. Biotechs looking for a place to throw down roots . . .
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Advocates of Diagnostic Testing for Personalized Medicine Press HHS for a Regulatory Framework
Just after she was accepted as secretary of HHS by Congress, Kathleen Sebelius was sent a letter from two groups representing a wide swath of diagnostics technology developers and patient advocates (108 in all). The letter petitions Sebelius to move ahead on developing a ...
Smith Drug Co. Opens a Third Distribution Center
New Valdosta, GA, facility is targeted at independent pharmacies in the ...
The Eventual Winner in Electronic Medical Records Could Be . . . McKesson
War-gaming analyst picks the drug distributor over Microsoft, Allscripts and other EMR ...
Pharma Gift, Marketing and Advertising Reporting Rules Multiply
Twenty-one states now have rules under consideration or enacted; industry wishes for ...
Contract administration is still ‘mediocre to weak’ among the majority of biopharma companies, says survey
Model N’s annual analysis of commercial operations finds lost revenue and a lack of IT tools ...
More tools for evaluating DTC advertising
As direct-to-consumer advertising declines, vendors offer tactical aids to ...
NanoGuardian closes loop with SDI for anticounterfeit protection
NanoGuardian has struck a deal in which SDI will run the proactive, post-marketing monitoring portion of the Closed-Loop Protection program, an anticounterfeiting initiative of the Skokie, ...
Pfizer pushes generics worldwide  Web Only Content
Big Pharma continues to look toward generics and emerging markets to fuel growth. Pfizer Inc. (New York) has entered into licensing agreements with two Indian pharmaceutical companies, simultaneously ...
Hamburg to let overall public health considerations influence drug approvals  Web Only Content
Restoring public confidence in the FDA is among her top objectives, says recently installed commissioner Margaret A. Hamburg, MD. On the drug side, that’s likely to mean a reassessment of drug-approval processes ...
Performance-based pharma pricing comes to US payers  Web Only Content
An agreement that bases Merck’s diabetes drug pricing on how well patients’ blood-sugar control (A1C levels) improves has been signed with Cigna (Bloomfield, CT). In an interesting twist . ...
Continental Cargo approves use of AcuTemp container for cold chain shipping  Web Only Content
Continental Airlines Cargo has made a “selection” of the AcuTemp RKN container for use on its cargo jets, says CSafe LLC (Dayton, OH) in a recent announcement. CSafe ...
Heart medication study shows growing power of outcome studies  Web Only Content
The recent advisory from the Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions to health care providers demonstrates the growing power of ...
Direct-to-consumer marketing trends toward relationship management  Web Only Content
The majority of respondents to a recent survey say they anticipate spending cuts in their direct-to-consumer marketing budgets this year, but most would like to beef up their efforts on relationship ...
Retail-PBM combination is working for CVS Caremark  Web Only Content
The pharmacy benefit management (PBM) business of CVS Caremark Corp. outpaced the pharmacy side in first-quarter figures released by the Woonsocket, RI-based prescription drug provider. PBM network revenues ...
Despite warnings, flu drug counterfeiters brace for rush  Web Only Content
Product demand driven by mass media ...
'Ten Cities Challenge' diabetes education program publishes positive results  Web Only Content
Medical and economic results from Diabetes Ten City Challenge show significant benefits in patient health, lower healthcare costs—and higher pharmaceutical usage ...
California distributor/contract packager goes live with IBM serialization solution
The IBM InfoSphere Traceability Server is up and running at Golden State Medical Supply (GSMS; Camarillo, CA), where it has been installed on a ...
IT vendors look to extend drug-tracking software to cold-chain reporting
Both Axway (Scottsdale, AZ) and IBM (Armonk, NY) have invested heavily in developing standards-based track-and-trace systems to meet future drug pedigree requirements. Both have installations where such tracking is being ...
Acquisitions and outsourcing keep pharma R&D on track  Web Only Content
Pharma deals buck general industry trend in ...
Ranks of e-prescribers jumped 105% in 2008  Web Only Content
Federal- and state-level attention drove technology ...
Care facilities implement pharmacy automation system  Web Only Content
Medication dispensed in patient-specific multi-dose ...
E-learning program aims to enhance credibility of drug sales reps
To help drug sales reps enhance their credibility with the medical community, CMR Institute (Roanoke, VA) has launched an e-learning educational program covering such topics as anatomy, pharmacology, disease state ...
Big companies can do big volunteering  Web Only Content
McKesson has mustered over 14,000 employees to do a volunteer project of assembling and delivering care packages to some 16,000 ...
Drug-withdrawal news spread via mobile technology  Web Only Content
Medical information service alerts U.S. physicians to Raptiva recall within hours ...
Express Scripts Announces Acquisition of NextRx  Web Only Content
No. 3 pharmacy benefits manager to ...
Pharma reevaluates CME sponsorship  Web Only Content
Drugmakers face difficulty justifying expenses amid ...
 
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Economic Considerations For REMS
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Momentum Builds in Vaccine Development
Historians often cite the early 1980s as the dawn of biotechnology but in fact vaccines – arguably medicine’s greatest achievements – existed two hundred years earlier. Vaccines may be undergoing a “golden age,” according to Rino Rappuoli, PhD, who heads research ...
Data Virtualization Comes to Biopharma
Innovative middleware lowers the administrative burden of managing large ...		 HCMA’s 2nd Annual Meeting Comes to the East Coast
The new Westin Hotel in Jersey City, NJ, will ...
 
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