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Non-pharmacological Treatment (NPT) In The Management of Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) Over-estimated? New Data

by Editor on July 15, 2010 in Home Healthcare, Pharmaceutical, Press Release

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) [...]

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German Health Minister Philipp Roesler – To Slam Pharma – (Wheelchairs And Homecare Next)?

by Frank Barlin on March 10, 2010 in Editorial, Home Healthcare, Lifescience, Pharmaceutical, linkedin

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 [...]

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Some Sanctimonious And Some Not So Sanctimonious NHS Doctors Writing in the BMJ – British Medical Journal

by Frank Barlin on March 7, 2010 in Editorial, Lifescience, Medical Devices, Pharmaceutical, linkedin

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 [...]

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Biotech from Saxony-Anhalt in America

by Editor on May 18, 2009 in Lifescience, Pharmaceutical, Press Release, linkedin

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 [...]

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FDA – New Quality Management System For The Pharmaceutical Industry

by Bruno Cocheteux on April 14, 2009 in Drug Delivery, Editorial, Lifescience, Pharmaceutical, linkedin

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 [...]

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