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Rolf Fricker

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Tomorrow’s Selling Strategies: Invest & Test

A new PwC survey reveals a strong need to fully embrace alternative commercial methods-not in a blind frenzy but through careful evaluation of which new sales strategies have true innovative potential.


Rick Edmunds

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Value-Based Planning Uncovers True Drivers of Cost Across Life Sciences Organizations

Explicitly tying strategic planning to resource allocation boosts bottom-line productivity for pharma.


Nelia Padilla

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Tomorrow’s Selling Strategies: Invest & Test

A new PwC survey reveals a strong need to fully embrace alternative commercial methods-not in a blind frenzy but through careful evaluation of which new sales strategies have true innovative potential.


Chai Hoang and Chris Bard

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Refuting R&D Tax Credit Myths

Why executives should make the US R&D tax credit part of their planning discussions, by Chai Hoang and Chris Bard.


Rohit Sood

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Biosimilars in the US: Five Key Commercial Considerations

Rohit Sood outlines five critical factors for companies entering this blossoming market.


Ruth Herman

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So What is Pharma’s Ideal Role in Social?

Advertorial: Ashfield Commercial & Medical Services believes that Pharma can use social media to play an important role in educating the healthcare professional (HCP) and the patient


Jamie Gault

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Accelerated Change: Understanding the FDA’s Expedited Pathways

Jamie Gault outlines the key differentiators between each of FDA's programs to facilitate and expedite drug development and review of new drugs.



Lisa Barbadora

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Patients, Physicians, and Payers… How Can Pharma Do it All?

The word ‘centric’ by definition means one, as in focused on a single entity. Yet, in today’s life sciences industry, companies are customer-centric and patient-centric and physician-centric - combined. It's counterintuitive…if not overwhelming, writes Lisa Barbadora


Klarissa Hoday et al

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Personalized Medicine at a Crossroads

Personalized medicine has reached a crossroads where fundamental change is not only appealing but essential, write Klarissa Hoday, Francesca Boggio, and Aleksander Ruzicic.


David Logue

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Patients' Role in Healthcare Decisions Will Transform Industry’s Model of Care

David Logue sees the industry adapting to address medical needs and deliver treatments to patients in ways that afford greater personal empowerment.


George Sillup and Stephen J. Porth

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Pharm Exec’s 14th Annual Press Audit: The Opioid Crisis Takes Center Stage

The opioid crisis dominated the news in this year’s annual audit of press coverage of the pharmaceutical industry. George P. Sillup and Stephen J. Porth report.


Janelle Starr

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Five Indispensable Lessons from SXSW

Janelle Starr was surprised to find this month's SXSW speakers talk about failure. But their failures are enlightening, and essential to their ultimate success.


Neil Gleghorn

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Data is Now the Key to Marketing

Neil Gleghorn, looks at the upsurge of technology and metric-driven marketing operations in the strictly regulated pharmaceutical industries.


Dr. Anuj Gupta

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The Goods and Services Tax: A Bane or a Boon for Indian Pharma?

Dr. Anuj Gupta explains the potential implications of the GST- or the goods and services tax - on Indian pharma.


Cynthia A. Challener

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FDA Steps Up Foreign Inspections

New legislation and changes in policy at FDA are leading to better control of the API supply chain.


Rita C. Peters

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Industry Optimism Outweighs Personal Job Security

Amid the environment of a gradual economic recovery and continued consolidation of bio/pharmaceutical companies, scientists, technicians, and professionals involved in drug development expressed a mix of muted optimism and stagnant employment options.


Rita C. Peters

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New Funding and Approval Pathways Prove Popular

Compared to other manufacturing and technology industries, the bio/pharmaceutical industry has one of the longest product development timelines.


Brad Ansley

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In a Dynamic Healthcare Market, Only the Adaptive Survive

“It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is most responsive to change.” In today’s healthcare market, Darwin's words have never been more relevant, writes Brad Ansley.


Michael Griffith

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UnitedHealth’s Acquisition of PBM Catamaran Heralds Escalating Price War With Drugmakers

Last week’s announcement by UnitedHealth Group of its planned acquisition of pharmacy benefits manager (PBM) Catamaran for $12.8 billion officially puts the pharmaceutical industry on notice that the “war” on drug prices is escalating, writes Michael Griffith.


Dave Campbell

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Fake Medications, Real Solutions

Tactics pharma leaders can implement to stem the continued global threat of counterfeit drugs.


Kathleen Raven

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HBA's Woman of the Year 2017

For Bahija Jallal, chosen this year's Healthcare Businesswomen’s Association Woman of the Year, a passion for translational science has been the central guide in a career rise from cancer researcher to leading a big pharma biotech engine.


Matthew Cantor

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Pharma Distribution Deals Raise Concerns

Does patient choice matter to antitrust enforcers?




Colleen Tracy James and Neil DuChez

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Patent Strategy Implications in the Biosimilars Space

Colleen Tracy James and Neil DuChez ask, is biosimilar litigation the new frontier as predicted or an area pursued less vigorously as under the Hatch-Waxman Act because of cost and manufacturing obstacles?


Triplefin

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Accent on Accessibility

Program provides effective, cost-efficient way to help patients overcome affordability barriers and obtain the critical medicines they need.


Ram Moorthy and Dharmendra Sahay

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Should You Outsource Analytics?

Successful outsourcing can provide pharma companies with high-value, cost-effective analytics. But there are many challenges to overcome, write Ram Moorthy and Dharmendra Sahay.


Chitra Lele, PhD

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The Growing Importance of Real World Data

Stakeholders around the world can benefit from RWD as it can improve patient outcomes and speed at which products come to market.