We live in a nation that increasingly relies on other countries to produce the food, drugs, cosmetics, and devices we use in our daily lives. … Half of all medical devices used in this country are imported, while 80 percent […]
Read MorePharmaceutical manufacturers and distributors work together in a robust system to deliver high-quality products, but drug manufacturing and distribution have become increasingly complex in recent years. Prescription and over-the-counter (OTC) medications originate in factories all over the world, moving into […]
Read MoreDohmen Co. (Milwaukee) has acquired privately held Centric Health Resources (Chesterfield, MO) for an undisclosed sum. Dohmen operates several companies that provide services either to pharma manufacturers or to pharma payers; Centric is a hybrid of a direct-distribution company and […]
Read MoreWhether you call it e-detailing, multichannel marketing or a hybrid sales platform, it is clear that pharma companies want more online connectivity with physicians. Numerous surveys show that physicians will spend more time interacting with a sales rep online (especially […]
Read MoreAs hinted at in Google’s quarterly financial report earlier this year, the company was negotiating a $500-million settlement with the US Dept. of Justice and the FDA Office of Criminal Investigation over its support of online pharmacies that were illegally […]
Read MorePremier, Inc., a leading group purchasing organization for hospitals, has polled its members to gather data on offers of drugs that are in short supply nationally, finding that the prices being offered for these drugs were marked up 650%, on […]
Read MoreUPS’ annual survey of healthcare logistics trends has been expanded to a global base of respondents for the first time, and one of the surprising findings is that supply chain executives based in Asia are more aggressive in globalizing than […]
Read MoreTwo broad-based polling and analytics organizations—ZS Associates (Chicago) and SK&A Information (Irvine, CA), a division of Cegedim Relationship Management—have taken the pulse of hundreds of thousands of healthcare providers in recently released surveys. The upshot: one in four physicians no […]
Read MoreThere appears to be a slow-moving train collision looming for the US pharma industry over aggregate spending rules, for which data collection is supposed to begin on January 1. Having been called “the most disruptive force affecting pharma sales and […]
Read MoreBy means of a federal regulation (21 CFR 1301.74b) the US Drug Enforcement Administration is authorized to investigate wholesalers who do not sufficiently monitor their shipments of controlled substances. The latest company caught up in this regulation is Keystone Medical […]
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