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I have always stuck up for Western medicine. You can chew all the celery you want, but without antibiotics, three quarters of us would not be here - Hugh Laurie
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How a Beleaguered Industry Needs to Adapt - and Why it Doesn’t Have a Choice
The pharmaceutical industry has had a rough go of it lately. Between negative headlines (with the recent Mylan EpiPen controversy only the latest controversy), congressional inquiries and calls from insurers and the medical community to defend the price of medications, today’s value-focused healthcare landscape presents an unprecedented set of challenges for the sector.
This new level of pressure is exemplified by legislation currently under consideration in more than 10 states - including California, New York and Massachusetts - that would require drug manufacturers to disclose (and ultimately justify) costs of R&D, production and marketing. This degree of regulated transparency…
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Big Data Is Remaking Big Pharma
Big Pharma is in a rut. The industry keeps spending more and yet making fewer scientific breakthroughs.But help is on the way. GlaxoSmithKline recently announced a radical change in R&D spending. The British drug giant will refocus on data analytics, and the link between the immune system and human disease.
Big Pharma emits more greenhouse gases than the automotive industry
Rarely does mention of the pharmaceutical industry conjure up images of smoke stacks, pollution and environmental damage. Yet our recent study found the global pharmaceutical industry is not only a significant contributor to global warming, but it is also dirtier than the global automotive production sector.
Big Pharma Has the Flu
Flu vaccines make pharma companies $3 billion a year and aren't very effective. Without a Manhattan Project-style initiative to modernize immunizations, things aren’t going to get any better.
Big Pharma Would Like Your DNA
Since 2015, DNA testing has become far more mainstream. 23andMe has added millions of customers, many of them less interested in the genetics of disease than their genetic ancestry. It’s one thing to build a database of customers interested in the genetics of disease and sell it to drug companies. It may be another to build the database out of people who simply want to know where their ancestors came from.
Big Pharma’s Go-To Defense of Soaring Drug Prices Doesn’t Add Up
Just how expensive do prescription drugs need to be to fund innovative research?
Don’t Blame Drug Prices on ‘Big Pharma’
Lawmakers want lower list prices, but insurers are at fault for mismanaging plans.
Human Drugs Are Polluting the Water—And Animals Are Swimming in It
Waterways can contain traces of many drugs—among them antifungals, antimicrobials, and antibacterials, as well as ones for pain, fertility, mood, sleeplessness, and neurodegenerative diseases. If current trends persist, scientists estimate, the volume of pharmaceuticals diffusing into fresh water could increase by two-thirds by 2050.
It’s Time for Pharmaceutical Companies to Have Their Tobacco Moment
Elected officials have made a lot of noise about the cost of prescription drugs. Now they must demand answers from pharmaceutical companies.
Most Americans want drug companies held accountable for the opioid epidemic
A majority of respondents blamed these companies for making the crisis worse.
Everyone Wants to Reduce Drug Prices. So Why Can’t We Do It?
An angry public overwhelmingly wants change in an easily vilified industry. The pharmaceutical industry’s recent publicity nightmare included 1,000 percent price increases and a smirking chief executive who said, “I liken myself to the robber barons.” Even powerful members of Congress from both parties have said that drug prices are too high.
How the U.S. Pays 3 Times More for Drugs
In Britain the world's 20 top-selling medicines are three times cheaper than in the U.S.
Which Big Drug Companies Are Helping the Poor? Here’s the List
The pharmaceutical giant GSK, which has held first place in the Access to Medicine Index ever since its introduction in 2008, was ranked first again this week. The index measures how well the world’s top 20 pharma companies do at getting their drugs and vaccines — and often their scientific expertise — to the world’s poorest countries.
Big Pharma
Big Pharma. What does that bring to mind? If you’re like me it makes your head begin to explode just thinking about it. Counter productive, no? Well, actually, it’s very productive for them.
Big Pharma Spent Millions to Curb Talk of High Drug Prices
Last year, the pharma industry’ biggest trade group raised a fortune to change the conversation about drug pricing.
Big pharma's newest marketing tactic: infiltrating soap operas like General Hospital
The long-running show wrote a rare disease into its plot at the behest of a pharmaceutical company.
Big Pharma, Little Movies
Big Pharma – oh, how we love to hate you. The corporate behemoth that is the pharmaceutical industry has morphed into a gargantuan force in American politics and business yielding immense power.
Big Pharma’s Attempt to Ghostwrite for Stat Ended Badly—but Not Badly Enough
There’s been a lot of work done to expose ghostwriting in the peer-reviewed literature, but few have spent any effort trying to find it lurking in the popular press. Nevertheless, it’s endemic.
Big Pharma’s Manufactured Epidemic: The Misdiagnosis of ADHD
ADHD itself is not an epidemic—ADHD misdiagnosis is an epidemic. If the system functioned in such a way as to stay anywhere near the 5percent diagnosis rate that the American Psychiatric Association's official definition suggests, we wouldn't be in this mess.
Drug companies bought doctors fancy meals — and then those doctors prescribed more opioids
A new study reveals a correlation between drug companies’ payments to doctors and opioid prescriptions.
How Big Pharma Might Be Cut Down To Size
Of all sectors in healthcare, the most profitable is pharmaceuticals. They now account for nearly as much cost as hospitals, and prices continue to rise at a rate two to three times faster than overall medical inflation.
How Money From Pharmaceutical Companies Sways Doctors’ Prescriptions
New research found that even receiving something as small as a meal made physicians more likely to prescribe brand-name drugs.
How Pharma Companies Game the System to Keep Drugs Expensive
Although makers of a branded drug are using a variety of tactics to create barriers to healthy competition, generic drug companies are often not helping their own case.
The true story of America’s sky-high prescription drug prices
The United States is exceptional in that it does not regulate or negotiate the prices of new prescription drugs when they come onto market. Other countries will task a government agency to meet with pharmaceutical companies and haggle over an appropriate price.
When Drug Startups Make Big Pharma Look Like the Good Guy
In which a recently formed pharmaceutical company run by a disgraced hedge fund manager starts charging $750 a pill for an essential drug.
Why Do Drug Reps Give Doctors Free Pens?
Because what they get in return is far, far more valuable.
How a Beleaguered Industry Needs to Adapt - and Why it Doesn’t Have a Choice
The pharmaceutical industry has had a rough go of it lately. Between negative headlines (with the recent Mylan EpiPen controversy only the latest controversy), congressional inquiries and calls from insurers and the medical community to defend the price of medications, today’s value-focused healthcare landscape presents an unprecedented set of challenges for the sector.
In The Pipeline
Derek Lowe's commentary on drug discovery and the pharma industry. An editorially independent blog from the publishers of Science Translational Medicine.
Pharmaceutical Business Review
The Business Review websites are your number one stop for all the latest news, comment and industry information. Each Business Review website offers content that is produced by a dedicated team of journalists and global industry experts.
Pharmaceutical Online
Get the latest news, product offerings and industry updates.
Pharmaceutical Technology
Brings you the latest in industry projects and updates, along with the news, views and trends that leading professionals require to stay on top of their field
PharmaLive
The Pulse of the Pharmaceutical Industry.
PharmExec.com
Pharmaceutical Executive, a digital magazine offering news and opinions, analysis, features and executive profiles.
PharmTech.com
PharmTech.com is a comprehensive information source for all professionals in the global pharmaceutical manufacturing drug development community, brought to you by Pharmaceutical Technology and Pharmaceutical Technology Europe.
Pink Sheet
Pharma Intelligence.
WorldPharmaNews
World Pharma News is an ambitious online news service dedicated to the world pharmaceutical industry. Our main goal is to keep our readers informed about the latest worldwide pharmaceutical news, realizations and achievements.
Academy of Pharmaceutical Sciences
The Academy of Pharmaceutical Sciences is an organisation dedicated to the advancement of the pharmaceutical sciences in the United Kingdom.
Bigpharma
What if you had it in your power to rid the world of disease, to improve the lives of millions, to ease suffering and cure the sick… and earn a tidy profit?
DIA
DIA is a member-driven non-profit association that serves more than 30,000 professionals involved in the discovery, development, regulation, surveillance, or marketing of pharmaceuticals or related products worldwide.
ECRI Institute
For nearly 50 years, ECRI Institute, a nonprofit organization, has been dedicated to bringing the discipline of applied scientific research to discover which medical procedures, devices, drugs, and processes are best, all to enable you to improve patient care.
FiercePharma
FiercePharma is the pharma industry's daily monitor, with a special focus on pharmaceutical company news and the market development of FDA approved products.
Institute for Safe Medication Practices
The Institute for Safe Medication Practices is the nation''s only 501c (3) nonprofit organization devoted entirely to medication error prevention and safe medication use. ISMP represents over 30 years of experience in helping healthcare practitioners keep patients safe, and continues to lead efforts to improve the medication use process.
International Federation of Pharmaceutical Manufacturers & Associations
We are a non-profit, non-governmental Organization representing national industry associations and companies from both developed and developing countries. Member companies of the IFPMA are research-based pharma-ceutical, biotech and vaccine companies.
International Pharmaceutical Federation
The global federation of pharmacists and pharmaceutical scientists representing 2 million Members around the world.
MDLinx
MDLinx Pharma News helps physicians and healthcare professionals stay up to date with the latest pharma news news articles and research, as well as pharma news jobs, conferences, and resources.
Medical News Today
The latest Pharma Industry News & Biotech Industry News articles published daily. Includes news on pharmaceutical companies, mergers and acquisitions, drug development, export and import of drugs, legislation, advertising and influence.
National Association of Pharmaceutical Sales Representatives
The NAPSRx is a trade association for the pharmaceutical, medical and biotech industry. NAPSRx'' represents sales representatives for these industries and is also a federally trademarked group.
National Pharmacy Association
The National Pharmacy Association is the trade association for the UK''s community pharmacy owners and has virtually all community pharmacies in voluntary membership.
Pharmaceutical Research & Manufacturers of America
The Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America represents the country''s leading pharmaceutical research and biotechnology companies, which are devoted to inventing medicines that allow patients to live longer, healthier, and more productive lives.
Pharmacy.org
Comprehensive listing of pharmaceutical companies.
PharmaIndustry.com
PharmaIndustry.com is a pharma and biotech industry portal which provides links to websites, issues and trends, and news.
Product Quality Research Institute
PQRI member organizations, representing industry, academia, and government, cover a wide array of scientific issues related to pharmaceutical products. Through its working groups and technical committees, PQRI tackles projects to ensure the quality, safety and performance of drug products.
SafeMedication
SafeMedication.com features complete, easy-to-read information on more than 800 drugs. It is based on ASHP's premier, unbiased drug information resources, which are developed independently by pharmacists and other medication experts.
The Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry
The Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry is the trade association for more than 75 companies in the UK producing prescription medicines.
Thick as Thieves? Big Pharma Wields its Power with the Help of Government Regulation †
American consumers are enculturated to reinforce their desire for convenience and accessibility, while also wanting their pains to go away. Moreover, they expect to view ads that compel them to want novel products or new applications. When it comes to health, consumers tend to mitigate the risk of taking drugs...
US RecallNews
US Recall News is not associated with any government agency. We provide what information we can relating to recalled products in the United States, but our list of recalls may not be all-inclusive. While we endeavor to stay up-to-date with all of the latest recalls, your best bet is always to contact the appropriate organization in charge of the recalls...
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