Wikio - Pharma Industry

Genomics Is Transforming The Pharmaceutical Industry (Business Wire)

Thu, 22 May 2008 11:20:00 GMT

Genomics is transforming the pharmaceutical industry. Companies are moving from drug discovery and development based on medicinal chemistry to the design of drugs based on information provided by genomics. Virtually all of the major pharmaceutical houses have either formed partnerships with genomics firms that began to emerge in the early 1990s or have created in house genomics...

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R&D Pharmaceutical Companies Mobilize To Help Victims Of Natural Disasters In Burma And China (Myanmar)

Thu, 22 May 2008 14:38:19 GMT

0 posts The International Federation of Pharmaceutical Manufacturers & Associations (IFPMA) confirms that, as in previous major natural disasters, the R&D-based pharmaceutical industry has moved quic...

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Congress May Make Move On FDA Funding This Week (Medical News Today)

Thu, 22 May 2008 12:00:00 GMT

Legislation that would grant much-needed funding to the Food and Drug Administration's (FDA) drug safety initiatives is likely to be reviewed by Congress before legislators break for the Memorial Day holiday. The funds, $275 million, were included into the Senate's bill to grant additional monies for the Iraq War by Senator Herb Kohl (D-Wisc.

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Farm Bill's New Tax Credit For Biofuel Production Will Support Development Of Advanced Low-Carbon Biofuels (Medical News Today)

Thu, 22 May 2008 12:00:00 GMT

The Farm Bill's new Credit for Production of Cellulosic Biofuel provides an important incentive for commercialization of second- and third-generation cellulosic biofuels. The Biotechnology Industry Organization (BIO) urged Congress to override President Bush's veto.

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R&D Pharmaceutical Companies Mobilize To Help Victims Of Natural Disasters In Burma And China (Medical News Today)

Thu, 22 May 2008 11:00:00 GMT

The International Federation of Pharmaceutical Manufacturers & Associations (IFPMA) confirms that, as in previous major natural disasters, the R&D-based pharmaceutical industry has moved quickly to provide substantial assistance for the victims of the recent cyclone in Burma and earthquake in southern China. IFPMA Director General Dr.

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Big Pharma: drug pusher (Later On)

Wed, 21 May 2008 01:20:39 GMT

This seems accurate: New York Times reporter Melody Petersen, who covered the pharmaceutical industry for four years, has now published a book titled Our Daily Meds: How the pharmaceutical companies transformed themselves into slick marketing machines and hooked the nation on prescription drugs. In her book, Petersen refutes the commonly-held notion that drug companies plow their...

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Video: Brian Swann, ISOGG's European Coordinator for England and Wales (Eastman's Online Genealogy Newslett)

Tue, 20 May 2008 23:48:30 GMT

I recently had a chance to talk with Brian Swann, the European Coordinator for England and Wales for the International Society of Genetic Genealogists (ISOGG). Brian is a DNA expert with several decades of experience. In this video, Brian discusses his experiences in the pharmaceutical industry and more recently in genetic genealogy. He also describes the services of ISOGG in some detail....

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Reportlinker.com: Learn about the World Pain Management Markets (Market Wire)

Mon, 19 May 2008 15:45:00 GMT

LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM (MARKET WIRE) Reportlinker.com announces that a new market research report related to the Pharmaceutical industry industry is available in its catalogue.

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Analytics and Illumination in the Pharma Industry (E-Commerce Times)

Mon, 19 May 2008 11:00:00 GMT

It is difficult to think of an area where the pharmaceutical industry is not under siege these days. Regulators spawning new rules, governments putting price caps in place, safety advocates demanding more information on side effects, expiration dates on patents coming around -- all are putting the squeeze on Big Pharma.

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Five Indians among pharma top shots (Times of India)

Sun, 18 May 2008 09:01:40 GMT

Five Indians, including Ranbaxy chief Malvinder Mohan Singh, have been named among the 40 most influential people in the global pharmaceutical industry by a UK magazine.

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Five Indians in top 40 pharma global (Times of India)

Sun, 18 May 2008 06:41:59 GMT

Five Indians, including Ranbaxy chief Malvinder Mohan Singh, have been named among the 40 most influential people in the global pharmaceutical industry by a UK magazine.

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Sacrebleu! (PharmaGossip)

noreply@blogger.com (insider) — Fri, 16 May 2008 13:25:00 GMT

Up to 32,000 Big Pharma jobs could be axed in France over the next few years, according to a study commissioned by Leem, the French pharmaceutical industry body. The Arthur D. Little study names five major factors threatening the pharmaceutical model: pricing pressures; generics; changing areas of growth, the break up of the traditional value chain as a result of the rise of biotechnology;...

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Former Glaxo chairman, Sir Austin Bide, dies (Financial Time)

Thu, 15 May 2008 18:39:00 GMT

Sir Austin Bide, the former Glaxo chairman who has died at the age of 92, presided over a period of dramatic growth that enabled the company to become one of the world-wide giants of the pharmaceutical industry

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Outbound pharma cos shy away from generic biz (Indian Express)

Thu, 15 May 2008 13:09:47 GMT

India's pharmaceutical industry is turning its back on generic formulations business when it comes to mergers and acquisitions.

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My Op-Ed: Securing the Supply Chain (Drug Channels)

noreply@blogger.com (Adam J. Fein) — Thu, 15 May 2008 11:33:00 GMT

Pharmalot, the Newark Star-Ledger’s outstanding online pharmaceutical industry news site, has just published my op-ed arguing that America’s approach to tracking finished drugs in the pharmaceutical supply chain needs a radical overhaul. You can read it here: Securing America's Pharmaceutical Supply Chain Unlike the blog, this article is written for a general audience....

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Key Challenges and Issues Facing the World Contraceptives Markets (Red Orbit )

Thu, 15 May 2008 11:00:37 GMT

Reportlinker.com announces that a new market research report related to the Pharmaceutical industry is available in its catalogue.

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ISPE-PCC Awards Credential To Industry Professional (Medical News Today)

Thu, 15 May 2008 10:00:00 GMT

Michael D. Ruff, R. Ph., CPIP, Vice President of Pharmaceutical Development for Metrics, Inc., has met the global competency standard and has been conferred the Certified Pharmaceutical Industry Professional (CPIP SM) credential by the ISPE Professional Certification Commission (ISPE-PCC).

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Reportlinker.com: Key Challenges and Issues facing the World Contraceptives Markets (Market Wire)

Thu, 15 May 2008 09:00:00 GMT

LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM (MARKET WIRE) Reportlinker.com announces that a new market research report related to the Pharmaceutical industry is available in its catalogue.

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Medicines Australia Surprised By PBAC Measure (Medical News Today)

Thu, 15 May 2008 08:00:00 GMT

Medicines Australia chief executive Ian Chalmers said tonight he was surprised and disappointed by the Government's controversial Budget measure forcing the pharmaceutical industry to fund the Government's own Pharmaceutical Benefits Advisory Committee. While welcoming several health funding announcements in the Budget, Mr Chalmers said the Government's move to recover the cost of the PBAC was inappropriate....

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On Useful Bodies (Medical Humanities Blog)

Wed, 14 May 2008 16:44:23 GMT

The always provocative and interesting Aubrey Blumsohn has an outstanding series of posts up at Scientific Misconduct documenting the CIA's role in performing LSD experiments on human participants after WWII, with the active participation of the pharmaceutical industry. The series...

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