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Biopharmaceutical companies are touting their huge investment in R&D, which has filled the drug pipeline with more potential first-in-class medicines, including orphan drugs, personalized medicines and new therapies based on novel scientific strategies.

By 2018, the amount health insurers spend per person on specialty, or biologic drugs, will equal or surpass the amount spent on traditional products, according to a new report.

Over the last few years I’ve worked with pharma marketers trying to preach and teach the virtues of digital channels. It has been a thankless task, with bucket loads of blood, sweat, and tears of frustration.

Global consultancy Cegedim has released its latest survey on how and where big Pharma puts its promotional dollar.

Crowd sourcing is hardly new, not even for pharma. Pfizer launched the first ever clinical trial to recruit and communicate with patients entirely via the Internet in 2011.

A survey of 600 patient groups worldwide conducted in late 2012 revealed that perceptions of the pharmaceutical industry soured in the past year, mainly due to issues of access, pricing, patient safety and transparency.

The Tufts Center for the Study of Drug Development (CSDD) sees two key trends as increasingly important for pharmaceutical companies to maintain success:

On average, cancer docs in the US would much rather deal with pharma sales reps in person as opposed to online, and drug companies are hiring more reps to support a slew of newly approved oncologic drugs.

The perennial fat got chewed during the first two days at J.P. Morgan’s annual healthcare conference – buy back stock or raise dividends? – and the usual suspects lurked, but newcomers like Walgreens and not-so-pharma companies like Life Technologies packed the presentation halls and corridors,

30 years ago last week, the US Orphan Drug Act came into being, and with it, a door of possibilities opened up for patients with literally thousands of untreated diseases.

Coming out of the blizzard of patent expirations, 2012’s total drug approvals climbed to 39, the greatest number from the FDA since 1996.

In its new study on pharma market growth in Africa, IMS Health highlights three ‘rising star’ countries from the continent’s sub-Saharan region.

2013 e-media kit

Thankfully, the civil war is not a public relations issue for Big Pharma, but the long-term business implications for the Middle East region are cagey.

2013 may be a number associated with the fate of the luckless, but our annual review of the business and policy environment for Big Pharma suggests otherwise-as we near the midway point in the "tween" decade, there is good fortune in store for those with the perspective that comes with the long view.

Industry Forecast 2013, The Search for Safe Harbors

The Securities and Exchange Commission filed charges on Eli Lilly and Co. yesterday for violations of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) that allege the drug maker’s subsidiaries overseas bribed foreign officials in Russia, China, Brazil and Poland.

At the end of last month, the European Medicines Agency approved its budget and work program for the coming year, promising to implement measures to increase operational efficiency, enhance transparency and communication with stakeholders, and improve the quality and consistency of rulemaking.

As the role and stature of the compliance officer grows, legacy senior management structures and hierarchies can accidentally pit lawyers against one another

A just-published report from the European taskforce trying to help Greece crawl out of its crisis makes clear just how significant a role health reform is supposed to play in restoring health to the economy.

With the general election behind us, the anticipated avalanche of ObamaCare regulations has begun. Last week, it was reported that more than 13,000 pages of rules and regulations have been issued by HHS since Nov. 6th

Hindsight can be a great teacher – but only if you have the self-awareness needed to adapt those learnings to the next business challenge, whose rough edges are by definition almost always “non-recurring.”

Participants in the 23rd Annual NYPF General Assembly last Friday outlined the many challenges facing industry, and the importance of collaboration as a way to move forward.

The National Intelligence Council’s Global Trends Report explains the scenarios in which the next 18 years may play out internationally.

Yesterday Acura Pharmaceuticals launched its new pseudoephedrine-based product Nexafed, an over-the-counter product aimed at deterring abuse of the illicit drug methamphetamine.

Cegedim’s annual industry survey, 2012 US Pharma Insights, reveals that while more pharma companies are using social media and mobile platforms to enhance their sales and marketing initiatives, budgets did not reflect an increase in social media spend.

The Puzzle Master

The pharmaceutical industry’s global reputation is on the mend, even if some countries – notably China – are more hostile, according to the latest Ipsos Reputation Snapshot for the Pharmaceutical Sector, from the Ipsos Global Reputation Centre.