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Ruta Freimanis

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Also Known As...The Value of Generic Names

In the world of pharmaceutical names, the trademark has always been the star, and every other word has played a supporting role. But recent developments at FDA-and the industry's response to those developments-have set the stage for a new approach to nomenclature.


Randy Gay

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How to make a powerful impact in two minutes or less

See how you can incorporate these five B's in some of your two-minute-or-less encounters with physicians.


Mark Hollander

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Chaotic Content: Streamlined Solutions

t's 4 pm on Friday. The board of directors has just made an important decision and wants to announce it over the weekend. The challenge? Publish an English-language version on the company's global Web portals immediately. The problem? It's the weekend and offices around the world are about to close. In the past, that meant hunkering down for a weekend of e-mails to coordinate the effort, but now there is a better solution. After writing the document in Microsoft Word, the sender simply clicks on a special menu item, "Publish to Portals," and off it goes. Confirming dialogue boxes allow


Terri Bernacchi, RPh, MBA

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The Challenge of Prescription Drug Pricing

Industry Must Set Product Prices That Ensure Reasonable Profit - and Minimize Political Fallout


Paul Meade

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How to Make Rx-Dx Alliances Work

Partnerships between pharmaceutical (Rx) and diagnostic (Dx) companies are difficult to achieve because most managers don't understand what it takes to make them work.


Reflector

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Competing European Bids to Fund New Antibiotics

Uncertainty swirls on just how effective policy competition between the EU and UK on these much-needed products will be.


Wayne Koberstein

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The Blank Page

No greater challenge faces any writer than the empty page. To sully that beautiful white space with mere words can seem so arrogant, so pretentious, that one's urge is to leave it alone, in perfect blankness. To paraphrase an old writer's adage, just to begin may require lowering your standards-an act salvaged later only by careful editing.


Jessica Hou

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New Gains for Pain

The global pain market will reach nearly $29.8 billion in 2008, of which $21.8 billion will come from the United States.


Tom Stovall

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Customer access: Can we ever have dialogue?

Physicians say they are now much more likely to limit their time and dialogue with sales representatives … except for a few individuals who take a different approach.



Stan Bernard

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War Games: Win Your Brand with Action

Stan Bernard outlines the seven ways for pharmas to ensure successful execution of action steps following brand ‘war games’.


Casey McDonald

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Path of Uncertainty: Pharm Exec’s 2017 Industry Forecast

The populist-driven shifts trumpeted from the US to the EU leaves plenty of question marks when trying to size up the trajectory of the global pharma industry. One certainty, however, will be change.



James Pierce

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Compliance and Reporting The Case for a Single System

Pharmaceutical companies are awash in a sea of compliance regulations that affect their business operations both inside and outside the US.


Josh Baxt

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Pharm Exec's 2018 Pipeline Report

Analysis shows that persistence is paying off for drug developers, driven by the rise of CAR-T and other gene therapy, newly discovered cancer targets, better patient identification methods-and the realization that failures have their place in shaping the pipeline of tomorrow.


David Dalke

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New Patent-Defense Path for Pharma

Inter Partes Review can potentially offer a more economical and streamlined litigation strategy for pharma and biotech players, writes David Dalke.



Ashley Roberts

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Planning for the Future of Serialization

Compliance with the new traceability requirements necessitates an understanding of how and when to begin implementing changes in an ever-evolving industry.



M. Andrew Holtman

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Crowdfunding: The Open-Source Option Against Capital Crunch

Is crowdfunding an attractive alternative to finance pharma and biotech start-ups? Seth R. Ogden and M. Andrew Holtman report.


Seth R. Ogden

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Crowdfunding: The Open-Source Option Against Capital Crunch

Is crowdfunding an attractive alternative to finance pharma and biotech start-ups? Seth R. Ogden and M. Andrew Holtman report.


Rick Koonce

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Executive Coaching: Transforming Big Pharma from Within

Defining the critical coaching steps necessary for top managers to realize their potential in an industry undergoing significant restructuring of human and financial capital.


Michael Swanick

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Brexit Report: What's Next for the Industry?

As the UK exits the European Union, the pharmaceutical and life sciences industries should prepare for changes by identifying key business issues, mitigating risks and creating plans for multiple scenarios.


Lee Jones

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The Human Microbiome—Our Body's Secret Weapon

New research on the role of microbes in fighting disease is transforming the way medicine views bacteria, writes Lee Jones.





Rory Mullen

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Ireland’s Role in the European Union’s Evolving Pharmaceutical Sector

Rory Mullen outlines Ireland’s importance to multinational pharma in the changing EU landscape.



Justin Works

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The Fruits of Comparative Effectiveness

New CER tools grant payers the evidence they need to control drug costs