I think this article somewhat speaks for itself and why reporting is important and this is probably not the last story we will hear on this. If government had wanted to track this, a data base reporting system could have been set up with applicable laws a long time ago requiring payments to be...
Not only do we see venture capital money here, also some big Pharma names. In a related story, Roche sees diagnostic machines and test kits as crucial to assessing and treating disease in the future and their risk profile has recognition of being one large investor in a growing area of drug research...
That might explain a couple odd stories of earlier this year, like the pilot program of the “Fake commercials” being tested, but there has also been an attempt to increase awareness at YouTube with FDA material as well, perhaps to even encouraging a bit of humor as I found on this video on YouTube, which...
As this begins the week of the “Never-Never” rules with Medicare and with Sepsis being included on the hospital acquired listings, the group is calling for standards to prevent, which includes the use of minocycline and rifampin impregnated catheters. Severe sepsis is common, with over 750...
Other Pharma businesses have done or will be doing the same, much of R and D is moving other areas where the cost is 1/5 of that here in the US, so 5 times the number of projects ongoing for the same amount of money, which also means in the same terms there can be 4 failures of drugs in the same cost...
Whistle blower case where Pharma Sales representative created an investigation and settlement. Whistle blowers can and do receive portions of settlements, and in this case there was $46 million. The uses marketed by Cephalon were not approved by the FDA. Doctors can prescribe...
In other words, this is called Business Intelligence. Lots of it out there to choose from and one from Microsoft specifically related to hospital management and budgets. Before the demise of Wall Street it wasn’t too long ago that I posted about the All Nighter they pulled to mine and try...
Not just India, but other countries as well. I have posted many articles on the blog referencing outsourcing over the last year or so and all of Big Pharma has interests in foreign countries including the strong possibility of phase 1 clinical trials. The one comment I have to make here...
One more generic drug to be available soon in the US. BD Drug maker Glenmark Generics today said it has received United States Food and Drug Administration approval for marketing and distribution of Betamethasone Dipropionate Cream, used in the treatment of inflammatory diseases. Betamethasone...
What the top R and D managers from 4 big Pharma companies were talking about, yes they have a bit more of a cushion than Wall Street, but the failure rates and dollars invested don’t seem to be coming together too well either, from the Wall Street Health Blog. When you add it up, just these 4 were...