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November 26, 2011

Activists often slam large pharmaceutical companies for failing to develop drugs that are of critical importance to the developing world. Andrew

December 7, 2011

All that moaning and groaning you've been hearing about how hard it is to find venture backing for biotechs these days is evidently cause for

Big Pharma Responds to Mounting Regulatory and Patent Pressures from Market Wire.

“I think Big Pharma really needs to rethink their model in general—their portfolios, their culture, how they structure their sales teams. It's gotten to the point where

Meet the new blockbuster: drugs like Pfizer's Xalkori that treat intractable diseases afflicting small numbers of patients shown by testing to likely

September 20, 2011

Johnson & Johnson (NYSE:JNJ), Novartis AG (NYSE:NVS), and AstraZeneca plc (NYSE:AZN) all want what Astex Pharmaceuticals, Inc.

This new study may not be perfectly accurate but the Big Pharma claims of And just about every time, Big Pharma has argued that huge profit

Pharmaceuticals makers are experimenting with a variety of new business models, almost the same way they experiment with molecules,

U.S. Drug Shortage: Big Pharma, Big Phuck-Up. An under-regulated industry collapses in on itself; the sick pay the price. BY Terry J. Allen

December 16, 2011

Big Pharma Giving Little Girls Cancer: Alex Jones Report · Print, The Alex Jones Channel · Alex Jones Show podcast · Prison Planet TV

Having been somewhat non-committal regarding stem cell research in the past, big pharma's gradual investment in stem cell based

During the swine 'flu hysteria, this blog kept insisting that the threat was overblown: that a coalition of drugs manufacturers, panicky journalists

In recent times American pharmaceutical companies have covertly . for the population; Big Pharma = pharmaceutical industry ($883 billion in

December 17, 2011

He also refers to private/public partnerships to make the now-abandoned programs in BigPharma more available for additional (public) study.

The pharmaceutical lobby — also known as the drug lobby — refers to the paid pharmaceutical industry · Big Bucks, Big Pharma, Amy Goodman, 68 minutes

Medical journalist Robert Whitaker's book claims pharmaceutical companies play enormous role in deciding what causes mental illness and

Here's the simple fact, in elementary english: until we get big pharma reform, forget about However, as big pharma grows even bigger and more powerful, the

December 17, 2011

The Motley Fool - Has Amgen proven itself a card-carrying member of Big Pharma?

Finance: NEW YORK, NY-- - Major Pharmaceutical companies are expected to face mounting pressures going forward as major patents for big

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Big Pharma's Big Headache. Posted by Barry Silverstein on March 8, 2011 05:30 PM. We may be witnessing a slowly developing economic recovery, but that's

October 7, 2011

Big Bucks, Big Pharma pulls back the curtain on the multi-billion dollar pharmaceutical industry to expose the insidious ways that illness is used, manipul.

Big Pharma faces challenge on drug prices. Pharmaceutical Senators rail at big pharma's secretive lobbying Merck Pipeline Setback: Big Pharma Losers

Big pharma (Issue 362) Big Pharma: Making a killing. Every month, we put up a Opening the casebook of Big Pharma's dirty tricks.

Officials across the country are seeking to rein in drugmakers' profits.

December 30, 2011

Fines against big pharmaceutical companies have soared in recent years, seemingly growing in direct proportion to big pharma's desperate

Big Pharma is not the culprit in ADHD treatment - specific cultural and medical biases significantly taint the effective use of stimulant meds.

Big pharma scores in US healthcare reform. 25 March 2010. President Obama has signed the biggest US healthcare reform since the 1960s, and although it is

It used to be joked that a consultant is someone who borrows your watch to tell you what time it is. These days, the opportunist is Big Pharma

April 17, 2012

Evangelos Michelakis, a cancer researcher at the University of Alberta, discovered that a common, nontoxic chemical known as DCA, short for

Pharma marketers are trying hard to embrace it, but the very nature of the two- way dialogue endemic to the medium threatens to work against

Successful models appear to focus on conducting discovery-stage work.

Blaylock: Big Pharma Vilified Researcher for Threatening Vaccine Program. Thursday, January 13, 2011 10:52 AM. By Russell L. Blaylock, M.D.

November 23, 2011

On the other hand, Big Pharma likes to drill down in Phase 2 with many randomized and controlled studies in order to be sure there is a good

Last year's JP Morgan Healthcare conference brought a flood of proclamations and projections about growth in emerging markets. Although the

Dr. John Rengen Virapen, former Eli Lilly & Co executive who after 35 years of service decided to quit and speak out about Big Pharma's method for profit and

Why is President Obama giving drug companies such an easy ride?

December 11, 2011

The top-earning psychiatrist says the day that the money begins to influence his clinical judgment is the day he is not fit to practice medicine.

A new study estimates the U.S. pharmaceutical industry spends almost twice as much on promotion as it does on research and development,

Big Pharma and university scientists are hopeful that a wave of new research collaborations between the two will speed up the drug discovery

But the reality is that Big Pharma has very deep pockets and as a result they go on all the time. For a prime example you may not need to look

December 17, 2011

While the sector girds for a wave of expiring drug patents, it was generics giant Mylan, surprisingly, that was hardest hit in July.

The Second Annual Childhood Cancer Summit meets Friday in Washington, D.C. to increase awareness for the dearth of pediatric cancer

Big pharma has played a prominent role in many films. Here's 10 the industry should hate, including Rise of the Planet of the Apes and

Marketing Disease & Pushing Drugs, How the pharmaceutical industry uses advertising to exploit illness for power and profit. | From the Media Education

November 2, 2011

The drug business is the most profitable in all of capitalism, journalist Law notes in this scattershot indictment of the pharmaceutical industry, but what do

Big Pharma: Amazon.co.uk: Jacky Law: 9781845291396: Books.

Astra Zeneca today announced that it will eliminate 400 positions at the company's Wilmington, DE headquarters. Most of the cuts will be in

Now the FDA wants to suckle at big pharma nipples under the guise of "fees." I'll not delve into that black hole in depth here as others already have done so far

May 11, 2012

Former Merck executive Peter DeVilbiss jumped into our ongoing discussion of pharma's big fall. (Update: To be clear, he was responding to

Mass psychosis in the US. How Big Pharma got Americans hooked on anti- psychotic drugs. James Ridgeway Last Modified: 12 Jul 2011 06:20. Email Article

How did pharmaceutical giant Glaxo Smith Kline create "depression" in Japan - and a billion dollar market for its anti-depressant drug Paxil?

A poignant (and often hilarious) documentary lays bare how drug companies are trying to sell women a disorder.

February 14, 2012

Maybe Big Pharma's advisors are steering it in the wrong direction, but I think the industry's best hope is in R&D. If small companies can do it,

Major pharmaceutical companies have reduced the price of several childhood vaccines in a bidding war to provide UNICEF with a new round

Supreme Court Showdown: Big Pharma Firms vs. Sales Reps. At stake is a case that could not only determine whether they are eligible for

Why Deals Between Big Pharma & Biotechs Fail · 1 Comment. By Ed Silverman // May 17th, 2011 // 10:44 am. fail Partnerships between drugmakers and

September 5, 2011

Gov. Chris Christie told executives of the pharmaceutical industry today he intends to forge "collaborative partnerships'' with companies as part

Startup AdverseEvents targets big pharma, consumers with side-effect data. Healdsburg-based company aims to ease access to data

Big Pharma's move on the pot industry isn't some forty-year-old hippie conspiracy theory, said Paul Armentano, spokesman for the National

Conspiracy Videos on big pharma. Geneticists Reveal E. Coli Super Bug O104 Was Engineered. Geneticists Reveal E. Coli Super Bug O104 Was Engineered

October 3, 2011

Just days after inking an $815 million cancer drug discovery pact with Boehringer Ingelheim, Forma Therapeutics agreed to put its fast-growing

The film manages to be both witty and informative while exposing how Big Pharma and medical device-makers ignore the complexities of

The problem isn't just that pharma's patents are expiring and its drug pipelines are dry. Its existing patents are also under attack.

This is a very good film that exposes the lies and fraud of Big Pharma and the medical establishment (one and the same), though the film

December 25, 2011

Big Pharma uses ads that sow hypochondria, raise health fears and sell diseases to Big Pharma wouldn't spend over $4 billion a year on direct-to-consumer

Another consequence of the Wall Street meltdown, Kinsella says, is that Big Pharma companies have been hiring the biotech bankers laid off

Pharma isn't what it used to be. Two major companies lost about 40% of their stocks' values in the past decade, when the industry shed 300000

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October 22, 2011

Drugmakers. Cliffhanger. Big Pharma struggles to protect its blockbusters as they lose patent protection. Dec 3rd 2011 | NEW YORK | from the print edition

CBS Evening News: Senators rail at big pharma's secretive lobbying - Sen. Baucus seeks to force doctors and medical associations who lobby

The pharmaceutical and health products industry -- it includes not only ( Pharmaceutical manufacturers are a subset of this industry and are

Diplomats work hard to protect the profits of drug makers.

April 7, 2012

It used to be joked that a consultant is someone who borrows your watch to tell you what time it is. These days, the opportunist is Big Pharma,

If the hundreds of uses for cannabis doesn't plead the case for its legalization, the money made from its medical industry just might do it.

Big Pharma's complaints about the agency are often justified. But in its evaluation of Avastin, the FDA has served a legitimate role. However

The documentary film Big Bucks, Big Pharma pulls back the curtain on the multi- billion dollar pharmaceutical industry to expose the insidious ways that.

February 20, 2012

My last post discussed the reasons why neglected diseases have historically been neglected, the growing efforts to eradicate them, and why

Venture firms traditionally have seen big pharmaceutical companies as the most likely buyers for their biotechnology start-ups, but lately they've

To be blunt up front - SBM is not apologetic about the pharmaceutical industry. We get zero funding from any company, and have no ties of any

If you never watch People & Power on Al Jazeera, here is a very interesting edition of the show from 2010 on "Drug Money." This is a very good

February 19, 2012

Question: What is Big Pharma and why do you write about it so much? Big Pharma, that is, the 50 or so biggest pharmaceutical companies, is an enormously

While children have always had asthma and allergies, there are two changes since the legalization of direct-to-consumer advertising in the late

The documents appear to have come from the International Federation of Pharmaceutical Manufacturers and Associations (IFPMA), and

Republicans often bemoan what they view as the heavy burden of government regulation. But the absence of such regulation, combined with

August 22, 2011

Big Pharma is the nickname given to the pharmaceutical industry. The name comes from the acronym used by the industry's lobbying arm -- the Pharmaceutical

"Big Pharma has Created Wealth, While Biotech has Destroyed Wealth". George Bickerstaff shared his thoughts on "The Financial Lay of the

Big Pharmaceutical: Gwen Olsen the Rx Reformer Everyone is at risk for a Big Pharmaceutical: USA Antipsychotics for Foster Kids Drugging kids Posted by

One of the more common complaints from homeopaths and antivaxxers is that we skeptics are in the pockets of “Big Pharma”, who pay us to

January 20, 2012

Represents leading research-based pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies in the US. Information on membership, publications and

With reform still an unknown commodity and some well-known drugs going generic, what's the outlook for big pharmaceutical firms?

23 March 2010 By David Caploe PhD, Chief Political Economist, EconomyWatch. com Last year, we identified the fundamental difficulty with Obama's approach

Mayor Lee and Big Pharma. Why can't the city mandate cheaper recycling rules for medication? 01.25.11 - 8:00 pm | Guardian Editorial |. (0). Print · Share

November 25, 2011

Consumer advocates lambasted the White House this weekend after reviewing leaked trade negotiation documents they say show that a

Attorney Mike Bottaro discusses a recent court case against a drug manufacturer in the context of product liability law.

Novartis is paying out at least $5 million to get into the cannabinoid arena by linking up with UK company GW Pharmaceuticals.

Big pharma and health care: unsolvable conflict of interests between private enterprise and public health. Brezis M. Center for Clinical Quality & Safety,

December 23, 2011

Seattle-based Impel NeuroPharma has gotten a big vote of confidence for its technology that aims to deliver certain drugs more efficiently to the

Yo, my baby needs some new bling so it's time to sell outto Big Pharma!

Pharmaceutical companies are buying large quantities of iPad tablets for 'a quicker, lighter and more attractive way of displaying drug-related

Big Drug's NICOTINE WAR - A documentary on the colossal interests of giant pharmaceutical conglomerates in the dissemination of disinformation and

August 29, 2011

Since 2001, 300000 pharma employees have lost their jobs, primarily in R&D and sales. That's according to Clifford Mintz, the founder of

Over the last couple of decades, the pharmaceutical industry has come under attack for its perceived shortcomings amid claims that it's greedy,

It is almost never fair to critique a book for not being what its author probably didn' t intend it to be in the first place.

“The DEA's intent is to expand the federal government's schedule III listing to include pharmaceutical products containing naturally derived

April 14, 2012

Drugmakers don't just compromise doctors; they also undermine top medical journals and skew medical research.

The Professional Guinea Pig: Big Pharma and the Risky World of Human Subjects. Author(s): Roberto Big Pharma and HIV Clinical Trials: A Case Study 85: 5.

Big Oil, Big Pharma, Big Obama? Is it a bug or a feature? That depends on how you feel about big bureaucratic corporations taking over

Big Pharma Giving Away Drug Patents To Help Cure Tropical Disease. BY Ariel Schwartz Thu Oct 27, 2011. By offering up their drugs for free to developing

April 19, 2012

Barack Opharma issues the ultimate bad news during his weekly Friday night bad news dump: Legal immunity set for swine flu vaccine makers

US researchers and big pharma conducting human experimentation in

For nearly a week, the advertising pages of Thai- and English-language dailies have been the stage for debates on Thailand's decision to

Big Pharma compensation plans 'flawed' - study. Drug majors' continued dependence on traditional executive compensation plans threatens to

August 13, 2011

The American Independent has previously reported on the growing corporatization of the incipient medical marijuana industry at a time when

What big pharma objects to is more of its patented products becoming vulnerable to this kind of copycatting. It doesn't want people using its products on the

3 Jun 2011 the availability of generic versions. It's a sweet deal for big pharma, but not needed and would cost Canadians dearly, writes Michael Geist.

In one camp, we have the 'big pharma' position. The people who claim that using medication to treat mental illness is bad and wrong because

May 10, 2012

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Occupy Big Pharma - Description: With Bankers and elitist around the world under attack we need to keep up the game and go after these bastards who are

Drug makers saw a 29% decline in profits this year over last year due to fewer drugs making it past the final phases of development.

By taking lists of potential side effects out of the hands of the drug makers, the startup is letting people know what their pills might be doing to them in a more

March 10, 2012

Carney also reports that Big Pharma spent more than any other industry on lobbying in the period from 1998-2011, with expenditures totaling

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4 Creepy Ways Big Pharma Peddles its Drugs For related articles and more information, please visit OCA's Health Issues page and our

PharmaScam is an irreverent trawl of the developments taking place within the big pharma and chemical industries.

March 21, 2012

The Pittsburgh Business Times won a first-place award in a national business- journalism

HIV and Aids may be slipping off the news agenda - see the Kaiser Family Foundation report on global health journalism - but the determined

Documentation that IADSA is favoring Australia's Pharma-Centric Regulatory System over New Zealand's Food Based Very Liberal Regulatory System

Big Bucks, Big Pharma pulls back the curtain on the multi-billion dollar pharmaceutical industry to expose the insidious ways that illness is used, manipulated,

March 1, 2012

How can a drugmaker please shareholders when R&D productivity is, to put it politely, in the tank? Point to shiny objects in the opposite

Big pharmaceutical companies spend a lot of time, money and effort trying to attract the attention of doctors in order to get them to use their.

U.S. government rules for advertising in medical journals are routinely ignored by the pharmaceutical industries. Is this a danger to the public?

The following is a list of the 49 largest companies involved in pharmaceutical and biotech industry ranked by healthcare revenue as of 2008. Some companies

December 18, 2011

Big Changes Coming to Big Pharma. By David Williamson | More Articles December 19, 2011 | Comments (0). The following video is part of our "Motley Fool

A new Colorado law signed last week is causing lots of concern in the medical marijuana community -- and given the track record of Big

In The Wall Street Journal, former Deputy FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb writes that drug makers aren't chasing blockbusters like Lipitor

Pharma to See Big Growth in East in 2011. According to investment international, 2011 will be a successful year for the pharmaceutical industry due to a rise in

December 23, 2011

"It felt like a demotion going from bossing big pharma around, where you tell them to jump and they ask how high, and then suddenly you are

We Win! FDA Reverses Decision to Deregulate Antibiotic Use in Livestock. Posted on Jan 10, 2012 in Health, Food News, & Big Pharma

Nevertheless, many big pharma companies are now beginning to recognize that rare diseases, in their own right, represent a burgeoning, new commercial

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November 24, 2011

Sometimes researching negative side effects can be as bad as suffering the side effects.

Big Pharma spends big bucks on online marketing—more than $1 billion last But when it comes to playing in social media, pharmaceutical

Many reporters, analysts and other observers over the past decade have remarked on how the traditional big pharma business model has been

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November 4, 2011

Big Pharma Finds a Home on Campus. As drug companies scale back spending on R&D, academic research takes on financial risk

Big pharma is getting worse at R&D. This is the conclusion of a new study, which finds that returns on investment in drug development by the

Theory: The FDA exists to increase profits for drug companies. Facts: The FDA was caught conspiring with the chemical industry to conclude

Big Pharma - Favourite bogeyman of alt-med conspiracy theories, Big Pharma is the secret cabal that controls every large pharmaceutical company in the world.

November 25, 2011

New Zealand leverages taxpayers' bargaining power to get the best prices on drugs.

and recruiting and retaining seasoned big pharma executives. But, it cuts both ways, and big pharma may find that the expertise of generic drug executives

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It's the eurozone, stupid. Anyone looking to explain the recent resilient performance of the pharmaceutical sector need look no further than what

May 4, 2012

Obama's agreement with Big Pharma may help healthcare reform pass, but it may also mean higher drug prices for you.

Drug companies spend hundreds of millions of dollars a year to influence doctors ' prescribing habits -- money that often goes directly into

Big Pharma has almost reached the finish line of its decades-long battle to wipe out all competition. As of 1 April 2011, virtually all medicinal

In bed with pharma. By ADAM ZAGORIN. "No comment." That's what the spokesman for a leading academic and member of a Food and Drug

January 7, 2012

Cures for an Industry Crisis: Big Pharma Scrambles to Find New Ways to Develop Drugs Faster by Knowledge@Wharton, the online business

Even before the debt deal was reached, partnerships between Big Pharma and universities have been on the rise, according to an article in the

Georgetown University discussed the potential for a conflict of interest between doctors and pharmaceutical companies that partially fund

India's largest pharmaceutical industry body, the Indian Drug Manufacturers Association, presents a picture of vivid contrasts.

November 12, 2011

Big Pharma. The Issue: Canadian governments, employers, unions, and patients currently spend more money on prescription drugs (about $21 billion in 2007)

According to the U.S. Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics, the Consumer Price Index (CPI) is a measure of the average change

Bill Gates has sold almost half a billion dollar's worth of Microsoft stock this year, and begun to invest heavily in big pharma. In the second half of this year he

Which companies are the leaders in the pharmaceutical industry? Explore their profiles and learn how Big Pharma is responding to health care reform and

May 10, 2012

News and articles exposing big pharma and the corrupt health industry that knowingly poison your food, water and vaccines.

The biotech industry raised a record $55.8 billion in 2009 despite hesitant stock and venture capital markets, as drug-company partnerships fed

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Lower profit margins suggest a need for new business models. A McKinsey Quarterly Health Care article.

February 20, 2012

Home | FDA-Big Pharma Fraud-Conspiracy Channel Big Pharma Turns Americans Into Psycho-Zombies by JAMES RIDGEWAY (AL

You may or may not know that prescription painkiller related deaths have eclipsed motor vehicle deaths as the nation's leading cause of

This has increased the profits of Big Pharma, attracted patients looking for magic fixes, and has legitimized psychiatry as a medical science. But is it really

Featuring Chill EB - Psycho/pharma spends billions of dollars a year marketing mental 'disorders' & drugs for kids -- yet these drugs are

February 14, 2012

This is a grim picture, and in her well-researched book, Kathleen Sharp explores why pharmaceutical companies permitted thousands of

Category: CDC. Former CDC Director to head up Big Pharma vaccines division. Sigh. Read on ». Posted by revere at 6:35 AM • 21 Comments • 0 TrackBacks

It now costs about $1 billion to get a new drug to market, or, if a company is unlucky, $1 billion to fail to get the drug to market. Like the movie

As patent cliffs are crossed, research budgets are slashed, and early-stage projects are abandoned, the survivors of Big Pharma's golden age

August 15, 2011

Large, prosperous pharmaceutical firms collectively, understood as a business group having significant economic, political, or social influence.

Vitamin D conspiracy leads straight to Big Pharma. By Dr. Allan Spreen on 02/19/ 2011. You've probably heard about the bad rap vitamin D has been getting

British doctor Goldacre is funny and blunt as he bashes journalists, nutritionists, homeopaths, politicians, and pharmaceutical companies—his favorite targets.

I have previously discussed some of the problems of the pharmaceutical industry (see: Big Pharma Reacts to Its Drug Pipeline Problems; CROs

November 5, 2011

These days, the opportunist is Big Pharma which raises your insurance premiums and taxes while providing you 'low priced' drugs that you

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Another great rap song, by the famous blogger ZDoggMD bullying the big pharma companies who seek to influence doctors, patients and

Big Pharma has done some major consolidation with the acquisitions of Wyeth by Pfizer (PFE), Genentech by Roche (RHHBY), and the merger

March 11, 2012

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An article came out this week entitled Merck Pays $950 Million for Vioxx Illegal Marketing and Dangers…But No Jail Time. The article talks

Avalon's Kinsella Upbraids Big Pharma, Scripps Names Marletta to Succeed Lerner, CalciMedica Scores $6M, & More San Diego Life Science News · Bruce V .

Using these lobbying reports, along with data on the industry's other political spending, "The Other Drug War: Big Pharma's 625 Washington Lobbyists" shows

September 16, 2011

In 2005, the pharmaceutical company Biostratum, Inc. made a mistake -- they invested millions of dollars into developing a drug, only to

Big Pharma's success is now irreparably broken. The industry needs . decade this model has created more than $1 trillion of shareholder value for Big Pharma.

How the pharmaceutical industry buys good press and corrupts medical journals By Christopher Lane, Ph.D.

LONDON (Reuters) - Big drugmakers, under pressure to streamline operations in the face of rising costs and slowing sales, are looking to the

November 4, 2011

Yet as the FDA is poised to approve the drug for Big Pharma, state-licensed medical marijuana dispensaries that provide relief for thousands of

Speak up now, or expect to soon be surrendering more health freedoms to a medical system that is owned and controlled by Big Pharma, all

Dr. Michael Geist is the Canada Research Chair of Internet and E-commerce Law at the University of Ottawa., pharma ghost writing.

In yet another engagement with big pharma, Exelixis (EXEL) has announced that it has granted to Merck (MRK) a worldwide exclusive license

May 8, 2012

Practitioners of innovation can learn several broader lessons from Dr. Gottlieb's assessment of Big Pharma: 1. What worked in the past will not

Big Pharma works in subtle but powerful ways inside the pages of the if a DSM panel member is a major stockholder in a pharmaceutical company that

Diabetes is a growing global scourge, but for Big Pharma it's more of a lifesaver. As the number of people with diabetes and prediabetes

Many of us in “cancer land” are skeptical of Big Pharma's true intent and role in the war against cancer. What kind of progress are we making in

April 30, 2012

May 7th, 2011 by Ben Goldacre in big pharma, numerical context | 26 Comments ». Ben Goldacre, The Guardian, Saturday 7 May 2011. Some of the biggest

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This article instead tracks resistances and failures in the terrain of Big Pharma amid economic, epistemological and political challenges to their

Big Pharma Beaten. GSK in Iceland forced to withdraw a drug-promoting depression booklet by Steindór J. Erlingsson PhD .(JavaScript must be enabled to view

December 24, 2011

About a decade ago when I was newly settled into private practice in Memphis, a representative for a drug company marketing a new and

See Big Pharma Latest News, Photos, Biography, Videos and Wallpapers. Big Pharma profile on Times of India.

It's a win/win for big pharma. It could be sudden death for the recipients of these vaccines, or, a lifetime lived in a state none of us would want to

Big Pharma is getting bitten by its deals with Indian generics-makers. One recent example, of course, is Japan's Daiichi Sankyo, which last

December 28, 2011

9/20/2011 1:59:39 PM - Big Pharma ties to Congress, physicians, and medical institutions. The FDA controls the way medicine is practiced. Big Pharma's

Research in epigenetics is booming. The payoff could be in the billions.

Dr. Zubin Damania's alter ego ZDoggMD uses rap music to communicate with patients about health issues. Read more about him and see a

The Motley Fool - Drug companies lose patents on their best products.

November 4, 2011

The business model that drove the major drugmakers' success isn't working anymore, and their very future is in doubt. The survivors will be

Meet the New Big Pharma Economies of Scale: A smaller market can provide blockbuster sales as long as health plans back expensive

A committee headed by Planning Commission member Arun Maira, the former head of The Boston Consulting Group in India, wants all

Irked by weakened pipelines and growing pressure from patent expiries, the big pharma majors such as AstraZeneca and Pfizer found

November 6, 2011

Federal prosecutors in the Obama Administration are going after medical marijuana dispensaries. How are pharmaceutical companies

The high court ruled unanimously that investors can sue the maker of Zicam, a popular cold medicine. Experts on both sides agree the ruling is

Big Pharma, Bad Science. In June, the New England Journal of Medicine, one of the most respected medical journals, made a startling announcement.

The European Parliament has called on the pharmaceutical industry to play a role in finding a solution to halt the rapid decline of the honey

October 22, 2011

Nine recommendations to weather the new year. Big Pharma Facing. Brandjacking Battle. 2009 Industry Outlook. With so many pressing topics - what direction

An organization that successfully lobbied the Quebec government this month to pay for new cancer drugs is defending its ties to pharmaceutical

With that kind of leadership, the thought that, say, a lobbyist for pharmaceutical interests would have wielded too much clout in terms of

LONDON (Reuters) - The Polish port city of Gdansk is famous for its shipyards. Hungary's fifth largest city, Pecs, is known for its ancient

August 14, 2011

After a two-year wait, the FDA issued guidance on social media for pharma marketers, but it only addressed off-label uses and is far from

Big Pharma focuses on emerging markets for demand and supply, observes Alison Smith, vice president of marketing strategy and research,

Consumers, in a turn of the tables, have given their doctors a checkup and the diagnosis looks pretty grim: They think doctors are too cozy with

Some companies (e.g., Bayer, Johnson and Johnson and Procter & Gamble) have additional revenue not included here. The phrase Big Pharma is often used to

September 18, 2011

Last month in Geneva, Bill Gates laid out his vision for the impact that broadening access to vaccines can have on the world. Now, only a few

Big pharma tests viagra . We are a discount online pharmacy offering Viagra online prescription medication for less. Buy prescription Genuine drugs from the

Maybe the 15 women chatting over coffee at the Wegmans supermarket cafe in Malvern should start their own pharmaceutical firm. They have

China's medicine manufacturers are preparing a huge push into the world market , to keep costs down and challenge the monopolists in the

October 13, 2011

The major pharmaceutical firms now represent value. These companies could represent a great income play.

Just about all the major pharmaceutical companies have their own venture capital funds to invest in biotech startups, and now one of the real

Drug makers are using social media to market their products in ways that the brand affiliation is not always obvious.

But whether the Pharmaceutical corporations studied Big Tobacco's tactics, or evolved a similar approach on their own based on similar marketing requirements

January 6, 2012

Big pharma has called for the FDA to clarify the scope and purpose of its draft electronic source documentation guidance.

It's plain to see why nobody loves Big Pharma these days. The brand-name-drug companies are barreling toward a \

Big Pharma uses ads that sow hypochondria, raise health fears and sell diseases to adults and their children.

"Help I can't sleep" and "Help I have a headache" are two products from Help Remedies, which declares its goal is to "make simpler drugs, give

September 18, 2011

A flurry of newspaper columns and editorials in the last few months have looked at New Zealand's efforts to strike a free trade deal with the

The shares of big pharmaceutical companies would benefit from renewed focus on core businesses.

(I think this begs the question; I don't believe that we neglect abuses among Pharma, but let's pretend that there is data to support her assertion)

Pharma sales have gone through a sea change, no question. Layoffs have shrunk the size of the sales-rep force by 30000, or almost 30%, just

September 28, 2011

Could this be the start of a Big Pharma boom? Britain's pharmaceutical industry is one of its greatest strengths Photo: ALAMY. By Michael

Gem of the Week: Big Pharma in Juvie. —By Jen Quraishi. | Fri May. 27, 2011 4: 18 AM PDT. Tweet · GreenColander/Flickr. Instead of the usual Eco-News

Looking beyond the spin of Big Pharma PR. But encouraging gossip. Come in and confide, you know you want to! “I'll publish right or wrong.

Big Pharma to Share Patents on AIDS Drugs. Big Think Editors on July 23, 2011, 8:30 AM. Tweet · Aids_stamp. What's the Latest Development? A patent pool

November 11, 2011

Why subsidies and set prices mean children in the developing world continue to go without vaccines.

The seeds of change are blowing in the medical marijuana business. If it isn't the federal government cracking down or the Legislature

This is an interview with Andrew Widger of pfizer on how communications within pharma has changed.

France's biggest drug marker, sanofi-aventis, acquires Genzyme for $20.1 billion, ending its 30-year history as an independent drug developer,

January 22, 2012

Get Big Pharma Out of Government - Page 1 - Lincoln Brown: I'm proud to say that my great-great grandfather fought for.

For those who follow developments in big pharma, the blocking of the generic Lipitor® doesn't exactly come as a surprise. Earlier this month

Big Bucks, Big Pharma exposes the insidious ways the multi-billion dollar pharmaceutical industry uses, manipulates, and sometimes even creates illness for

Research-based pharma companies need to be "more networked, global, and entrepreneurial" to bring new drugs to patients faster and at

January 24, 2012

This article is part of Big Pharma, Bad Medicine, a forum on the impact of the pharmaceutical industry on medical training and science, and the responsibilities of

Abbott's Humira is a dollar-printing temptation for several companies, but Pfizer's tofacitinib could change the rheumatoid arthritis drug

AUSTIN, Texas (Legal Newsline) - Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott announced an $84 million settlement on Wednesday with a pharmaceutical

Big Pharma's new product pipelines are sparse. Bloomberg reported on this a few weeks ago here. I don't think Chris Van Egeraat is quite as

April 16, 2012

A $34 million settlement by UCB shows how severe headaches are becoming a catchall category for drug companies illegally pushing

Every time I come across a big-number statistic about the size or significance of some industrial activity, my nose wrinkles. You know the figures

Many hospital finance executives have had that sudden and unpleasant expense pop up on their monthly expense spreadsheet as of late: The

As the market has rallied from its lows over the past two years, one group that has had a tough time keeping up is big pharmaceutical stocks.

May 1, 2012

Big Pharma Spends $95 Thousand Per Doctor on Marketing Each Year—The This simple act of redefinition makes food the domain of Big Pharma—to our

After Surviving War in Iraq, U.S. Troops Now Being Killed by Big Pharma. - A Glimpse Into Big Pharma Attempting to Corner The Market on Medical Marijuana

Big Pharma Wins Big With Health Care Reform Bill. WASHINGTON - Chalk one up for the pharmaceutical lobby. The U.S. drug industry fended

Until now, big pharma has been making the most noise in tapping back into academia for new discovery projects and intellectual property (IP).

November 23, 2011

This piece is a continuation of The Huffington Post's collaboration on trade issues with The Dylan Ratigan Show, called Trading Our Future.

Category Big Pharma, CD30, Cost, Ethics of Science, Finance and Politics of cancer research and treatment, genetic research, Hodgkins

Increasing Collaboration Between Big Pharma and Academia to Counter R&D, Patent and Approval Issues in the Industry - new market report

Big pharma's changing business model: Inviting academia to take the lead. by Nurjana Bachman on August 24, 2011. (photo: kisforkate/Flickr). In almost every

December 13, 2011

Does anyone remember the drug Tiger Woods allegedly cavorted with his consorts on? The same drug former Rhode Island Representative

Daniele Dionisio writes: The current break-through of multinational drug corporations in India couples with the protectionist policies pursued by

In response to the decline in new drug approval in the last year, the number of collaborations between large pharmaceutical companies and


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