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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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Pharmaceutical Sales Rep Calls And Sales Force Effectiveness – The Trend

There is an interesting article in PharmaLive which suggests that physicians are more satisfied now than before with the lower frequency of sales calls. In data published by SDIHealth, Pfizer was ranked number 1 in traditional detailing. Actually very few physicians or other health care professional object to sales calls as long as the calls [...]

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