Medicines Partnership would involve industry

October 21, 2003

The Medicines Partnership, a Department of Health scheme that promotes patient compliance, would lend its support to pharmaceutical industry projects. The …

Pharma faces outcome of EU balancing act

October 21, 2003

Negotiations on the future of the European pharmaceutical industry have stepped up a gear after a crucial vote in the …

Pharma websites not defending company reputation

October 21, 2003

Few companies within the UK sector communicate properly via the Internet, according to a new report that found key messages …

Claritin sales slump ahead of OTC switch

October 21, 2003

Profits at Schering-Plough have been hit by the company's search for a follow-up to its blockbuster allergy drug Claritin.The combined …

Health authorities blocking change, say PCTs

October 21, 2003

Strategic health authorities are too far removed from PCTs to help them innovate as they work on their plans for …

New lines of communication

October 21, 2003
Medical Communications, Sales and Marketing MHRA, disease awareness campaigns

New guidelines from the Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) have placed disease awareness campaigns under the spotlight.They spell …

Are you making the most of your web investment?

October 21, 2003
Medical Communications digi pharma, investment, websites

Pharmaceutical companies have spent millions of pounds on websites since the mid-1990s. Although almost no one is prepared to admit …

Industry careers for pharmacoeconomists

October 21, 2003
Business Services careers, pharmacoeconomists, recruitment

The last five years have seen a shift in pharmacoeconomics to the centre of corporate concerns. Pharmacoeconomics used to be …

Mind the gap

October 20, 2003
Sales and Marketing NHS, healthcare, industry relations

There is a disconnection between what primary care organisation influencers want from a relationship with the pharma industry, and what …

Bringing new drugs to market…at last!

October 20, 2003
Sales and Marketing product launch

In 1987 the average cost of development for new pharmaceutical products was $231 million, and it took between 10 and …

Medicines partnership

October 20, 2003
compliance, medicines partnership, patient

Medicines Partnership was set up by the Department of Health in January 2002 to encourage people to take their medicines …

Measuring your suppliers

October 20, 2003
Business Services IT, measurement, suppliers

When Pharmafocus suggested an article on measuring IT suppliers, this led to much scratching of heads in the Technophobe household.How, …

Recruitment – what’s in it for me?

October 20, 2003
Business Services recruitment

Being 'client focused' is undoubtedly one of the buzz phrases of recent times, but are recruitment companies really focusing on …

Commercial and R&D: reinventing the relationship

October 17, 2003
Research and Development R&D, commercial

Traditionally, pharma companies have been run as research-based organisations relying on well-integrated internal R&D capabilities to feed their commercial pipelines …

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