The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 12 hours ago
LONDON - The demand for novel drug delivery systems is rising and pharmaceutical companies have been involved in developing innovative new methods. Impending patent expirations will stimulate a surge in novel drug delivery methods for existing products, while sophisticated reformulati
British Journal of Pharmacology (Free subscription) | yesterday
Increased OPRM1 DNA Methylation in Lymphocytes of Methadone-Maintained Former Heroin Addicts Neuropsychopharmacology advance online publication, July 23, 2008. doi:10.1038/npp.2008.108 Authors: David A Nielsen, Vadim Yuferov, Sara Hamon, Colin Jackson, Ann Ho, Jurg Ott & Mary Jeanne Kreek Keywords:
British Journal of Pharmacology (Free subscription) | yesterday
Conflict of Interest, Journal Review, and Publication Policy Neuropsychopharmacology advance online publication, July 23, 2008. doi:10.1038/npp.2008.109 Authors: Donald F Klein & Ira D Glick Keywords:
Pharmalot (Free subscription) | 22/07/2008
The preemption prince is joining the big drugmaker as senior vice president and general counsel on September 2. This is a coup for Glaxo, because Troy is widely known - some might say notorious - for being supportive of the pharmaceutical industry (see here). During his tenure as FDA chief counsel, Troy instructed agency staff to [...]
India Press Release (Free subscription) | 22/07/2008
/India PRwire/ - In a bid to give a fillip to the rapidly growing chemical and pharmaceutical industry, ‘InformEx-2009’, the premier networking event for the chemical industry in the United States, will be organized in India for the first time out of USA, beginning from March 12, 2009 in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, disclosed a press note issued in city today. InformEx is a platform to provide chemical and...
Pharmalot (Free subscription) | 21/07/2008
The bid would allow the drugmaker, which already controls 56 percent of the biotech, to gain control of all the revenues generated by such big-selling meds as the Avastin and Herceptin treatments, as well as access to Genentech’s developing portfolio. “The pharmaceutical industry has changed fundamentally in the last 20 years, and the trend to consolidation [...]
Medical News Today (Free subscription) | 18/07/2008
The Massachusetts House on Wednesday approved legislation that aims to rein in health care spending, the AP/Boston Herald reports (AP/Boston Herald, 7/16). Members of the Massachusetts House
Derska Pharmacy Look (Free subscription) | 16/07/2008
Activist filmmaker Michael Moore turns his attentions towards the topic of health care in the United States in this documentary that weighs the plight of the uninsured against the record profits of the pharmaceutical industry. Grettings Terra, With these, you can satisfy here for hours : Just go to: http://uguh.offerweddroit.com Secure payment Free shipping worldwide ! Have fun :-) VBPJ, Dickinson...
Medical News Today (Free subscription) | 16/07/2008
U.S. investigators are looking into whether Indian pharmaceutical company Ranbaxy Laboratories manufactured substandard generic drugs, including HIV/AIDS medications provided to thousands of HIV-positive people in Africa, the Wall Street Journal reports. Ranbaxy under a U.S. government contract was paid "millions of dollars" to provide low-cost antiretroviral drugs under the
Vietnam Business Finance (Free subscription) | 16/07/2008
The Ministry of Health (MoH) and the Ministry of Trade and Industry (MTI) have vowed to develop and strengthen the country’s pharmaceutical industry and stabilise the drug market in the coming future. Minister of the MoH Nguyen Quoc Trieu and Minister of MTI Vu Huy Hoang agreed at a meeting yesterday to boost activities in four major fields including pharmaceutical manufacture, drug trade, drug
Law Blog - WSJ.com (Free subscription) | 15/07/2008
Alicia Mundy reports on the pharmaceutical industry. When members of the pharmaceutical industry were coming under fire from both parties in Congress this year, Billy Tauzin, the president of their lobby PhRMA, got on a call and warned them, Your house is on fire, and you're still smoking in bed. After announcing a new voluntary [...]
Medical News Today (Free subscription) | 15/07/2008
In an Australian first, scientists at Sydney's Centenary Institute have mapped the anatomy of a membrane protein. This exciting discovery has the potential to turn the way we discover new drugs on its head and reduce the development time for new treatments. "These membrane proteins are the target for 70% of all therapeutic drugs so an increased understanding of them is vital for future drug discoveries,"...
Ethics Newsline (Free subscription) | 15/07/2008
The major trade association for the pharmaceutical industry last week announced that it is toughening its voluntary ethics code restricting industry gifts to doctors.
Black Triangle (Free subscription) | 14/07/2008
According to some of the more wacko-stalker elements of the UK’s anti-vaccine movement I am part of a government/pharmaceutical industry conspiracy to suppress the self-evident harms of vaccines. Supposedly, Ben Goldacre, Richard Horton and I comprise a supporting act to Roy Meadow in this regard. I am also alleged to be a shill for the [...]
Biznology (Free subscription) | 14/07/2008
I was honored to give the opening keynote at the 4th annual ExL Pharma Public Relations & Communications Summit. If you're interested, take a gander at my slides on how PR folks can leverage their storytelling skills on the Web....
