As expected the new drug rules were approved in Germany today. Pharmaceutical companies will have to demonstrate that new products are worth it in order to get better pricing. If not products will fit into a benchmark category of peers. This will influence pricing across the European union as neighboring countries watch cross border pricing. [...]
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Non-pharmacological Treatment (NPT) In The Management of Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) Over-estimated? New Data
Press release: New data presented at the International Conference on Alzheimer’s Disease (ICAD): Effectiveness and beneficial effects of AXURA® / AKATINOL® (Memantine) Honolulu, Hawaii – [July 15, 2010] Has the role of non-pharmacological treatment (NPT) in the management of Alzheimer’s disease (AD) been over-estimated? Study results discussed at the International Conference on Alzheimer’s Disease (ICAD) [...]
German Health Minister Philipp Roesler – To Slam Pharma – (Wheelchairs And Homecare Next)?
New German Health Minister Takes Aim At Traditional Pharma Companies. Newly appointed German Healthcare Minister Philipp Roesler – liberal – Free Democratic Party in likely move to break big pharma stronghold and submit new products to insurance pricing scrutiny and impose an “efficiency and clinical effectiveness /outcomes” pricing performance ratio. Not totally dissimilar to the [...]
Some Sanctimonious And Some Not So Sanctimonious NHS Doctors Writing in the BMJ – British Medical Journal
Here is a thread from The BMJ where NHS physicians enter into the argument of the value (moral, ethical and commercial) of medical (pharmaceutical) sales reps. The original letter from Dr Shane O’Hanlon starts like this: It was switching to decaffeinated coffee that started it all. In a flash of lucidity I realised the dubious [...]
Biotech from Saxony-Anhalt in America
Press Release: Biotech from Saxony-Anhalt in America Halle (Saale) – 05.18.2009. The state of Saxony-Anhalt will participate in the world’s largest biotechnology fair, BIO International, in Atlanta, GA, USA this year. From the 18th to the 21st of May, 2009 the state will promote new technologies from the medicinal and green biotechnology fields, with it’s [...]
FDA – New Quality Management System For The Pharmaceutical Industry
ICH Q10: final guidance for implementing an effective quality management system for the pharmaceutical industry. The FDA has just issued its final guidance on ICH Q10. This internationally harmonized guidance is intended to assist all pharmaceutical manufacturers by describing a model for an effective quality management system called pharmaceutical quality system. Based on International Organization [...]
Pharmaceutical Sales Reps To Be Fired At Pfizer? – When The Best Is Not Good Enough
Market rumors abound that pharmaceutical sales reps at Pfizer may be the next to go. CNBC and Bloomberg are announcing the possibility that 2400 US domestic sales employees (about a third of the sales force) may be let go due to off patent drug expiry, and no doubt the current world financial crisis? The irony [...]
Critical New Readability Drug Packaging Guidelines – European Commission
Ahead of the next Pharmapack Conference, the European Commission has revised its guidance on the readability of consumer pharmaceutical labeling. This includes primary and outer packaging labels as well as leaflets / inserts. The main purpose of this document is to provide guidance on how to ensure that the information on the package label and [...]
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