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The public-interest charity takes on pharma-influenced medicing and drug-resistant bacteria.

Social networking helps sponsors drive clinical trials recruitment.

Pharma companies can maximize partnership benefits with social media.

Innovation in industry has always required a strong internal champion; the danger is a process led by the risk-adverse and externally-driven stakeholder consensus called "death by faint praise." Is this really what we mean by "bold partnerships?"

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May 24, 2010.

In the wake of megamergers and healthcare reform, Pfizer and Merck both produce fairly positive first quarter results

One Pill Makes You Better?

Cash-rich Big Pharmas are hedging their bets to cover both segments under the rubric of "diversification." If it sticks to the wall, then buy it.

Marketers must focus on getting busy women the help they need in making critical decisions about their healthcare.

A new Cegedim Dendrite study shows just how ill-equipped pharmaceutical companies are to deal with spending disclosure legislation, and how many are turning to third parties to do the job.

After a year of losses, the biologics sector got a big boost in profits in 2009. However, with companies holding back on R&D spending and venture capitalists becoming more frugal, can the industry possibly see further growth?

April 22, 2010.

The Prescription Drug User Fee Act will expire in 2012 and FDA is working hard to renegotiate the act before that end date. The contenders: in one corner, the pharma industry; in the other, the general public and consumers - and just about everyone has an opinion about what needs to be changed.

Lilly's aggressive approach to shrinking the racial gap in drug trials might indicate big changes for the drugmaking process.

If your ?wonder drug? proves to have damaging side effects, do you have the measures in place to deal with the aftermath effectively? Chris Hart provides some pointers.

Sales reps faced another round of layoffs last week as Sanofi-Aventis restructures its sales force due to looming generic competition and a dip in sales.

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Success in this harsh climate depends on seeing business through the eye of the customer

IMS Health reports a nice increase in prescription sales from 2008 to 2009, even with a recession in full swing. That said, numbers are still well below the historic sales of a few years back, and it's anyone's guess if they will reach that high again.

Big thinker Bernard Munos delivers the goods.

Dutch pharma releases the same drug as a brand and a generic. Will this two-pronged attack work?

Proving that one good turn deserves another, Pfizer and GlaxoSmithKline announced that they would provide millions of doses of pneumonia vaccines to some of the world's most impoverished countries at massive discounts.

The number of consumers ditching their drugs at the pharmacy keeps climbing as the economy worsens.

A new report from IMS Health bumps the number of emerging markets to 17 and predicts that these nations will account for $90 billion in sales in the next four years. How will pharma take advantage of the opportunity?

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Monday was a gloomy day for industry as two separate drug trials went belly up. AstraZeca's Recentin proved that it wasn't up-to-snuff compared with Avastin, and the Roche/Biogen Idec arthritis collaboration treatment, ocrelizumab, may have led to fatalities.

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Three ad agencies came up with two similarly designed ways of keeping track of online healthcare conversation, harnessing the power of social media sites like Twitter and Digg.