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FDA finally tries to regulate pharma social media, God Help Them

Posted on December 30, 2012January 3, 2013 by timbatchelder

FDA Guidance on Responding to Unsolicited Requests for Off-Label Information
pharma-mkting.com

Two days after Christmas, on December 27, 2011, while most of us were still on vacation, the FDA quietly issued “Guidance for Industry Responding to Unsolicited Requests for Off-Label Information About Prescription Drugs and Medical…

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Big Pharma and unfiltered speech: A dangerous prescription (features.blogs.fortune.cnn.com)
Drug Approvals Reach 15-Year High on Smoother FDA Reviews – Bloomberg (bloomberg.com)
FDA approved 39 new drugs in 2012, none from Houston (bizjournals.com)
Pharma Best Practices: in Black and White, not Shades of Gray (medmeme.com)
Social Media Guidance Countdown Continues: 576, 575, 574 . . . (druganddevicelaw.blogspot.com)
Pharma Marketing Blog: The Year 2012 in Images (slideshare.net)
Case Study: Pharma and Blogging (medmeme.com)

Fda — Fda (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Struggling Big Pharma returns to Chinese ethno medicine for ideas

Posted on December 23, 2012April 19, 2013 by timbatchelder

Ancient Chinese Cures Seen Helping Drugmaker Pipelines
By Bloomberg News -, bloomberg.com

The world’s biggest drugmakers are turning to ancient Chinese remedies to boost product pipelines.

GlaxoSmithKline Plc is testing botanicals — compounds extracted from plants — for immune disorders, Sanofi plans to turn…

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Big Pharma says Olá to Brazil (blogs.ft.com)
Pfizer Inc.’s is Pharma Industry’s Highest-Paid CEO (biospace.com)
Why pharma needs to learn the meaning of transparency (worldofdtcmarketing.com)

Kytta® natural products

Posted on May 9, 2009August 30, 2012 by timbatchelder

This is derived from Comfrey.

Kytta® – Natur hilft heilen. Pflanzliche Arzneimittel bei Muskelschmerzen, Gelenkschmerzen, Einschlafstörungen und innerer Unruhe..

Deals of the Week Ponders PatientsLikeMe and Empowerment (invivoblog.blogspot.com)
Organoid Seen Cutting Drug Cost With Lab Mini-Intestine – Bloomberg (bloomberg.com)
Now available! Natural baby products! (babyorganicjoy.wordpress.com)

E-mails suggest Pfizer tried to suppress study on drug

Posted on November 11, 2008November 11, 2012 by timbatchelder

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Pfizer Expansion in Cambridge — Pfizer Expansion in Cambridge (Photo credit: Office of Governor Patrick)

E-mails suggest Pfizer tried to suppress study on drug – The Boston Globe.

Here we go again. Not just Vioxx and the ghost writing scare but now also Neurontin. Emails can get your company in a lot of trouble

Pfizer’s Arthritis Treatment Wins Approval From US FDA – Bloomberg (bloomberg.com)
Pfizer’s Xeljanz story reveals why new drug development requires luck, money, endurance (medcitynews.com)
Can The Boston Globe and MIT hack the future of news together? By @JustinNXT (nextlevelofnews.com)
Pfizer caught “gaming the system,” loses Viagra patent in Canada (arstechnica.com)
FDA hands Pfizer blockbuster approval for rheumatoid arthritis drug tofacitinib (fiercebiotech.com)
Supreme Court of Canada rules Pfizer’s Viagra patent is invalid (vancouversun.com)
State pharmacy board director fired in wake of meningitis outbreak (bizjournals.com)

Pharmaceutical Training International

Posted on August 22, 2008August 22, 2012 by timbatchelder

pharmaceutical-biotechnology — pharmaceutical-biotechnology (Photo credit: Wiley Asia Blog)

Pharma’s Fake Innovation Crisis? (the-scientist.com)
Global Clinical Trials: Preferred CRO Partnerships, 1-2 October 2012, Philadelphia, PA (medicalnewstoday.com)
Big Pharma Dumping Drugs in Water (talesfromthelou.wordpress.com)
iPads becoming more popular among Pharmaceutical sales reps (edibleapple.com)
3D printing technology could let you print your pharmaceuticals at home [Chemistry] (io9.com)
Baxter International, Inc. Facility to Create 1,500 New Jobs (biospace.com)
Pharmaceutical Drugs are 62,000 Times More Likely to Kill You than Supplements (articles.mercola.com)
The highest order of ‘knowledge management’ is ‘collaboration’ (tginnovations.wordpress.com)
In life sciences R&D, China is reaching for the stars (fiercebiotechresearch.com)
NC Museum of Natural Sciences holds ‘Biotechnology Day’ for children with presentations by Monsanto (familysurvivalprotocol.com)

Pfizer explores social media and KM with internal Pfizerpedia

Posted on May 10, 2008August 22, 2012 by timbatchelder

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You know it has arrived when Pfizer gets in on the action!

Kapp Notes: A Pharmaceutical Leveraging Web 2.0 –In a Big Way.

Pfizer Corporate Crimes: Animal and Human suffering (insomniacanonymous.wordpress.com)
FDA pushes back PDUFA date on crucial Pfizer app for tofacitinib (fiercebiotech.com)
A Disappointing, But Not Altogether Surprising, Failure For JNJ And Pfizer (seekingalpha.com)
Pfizer may face legal charges in China (wantchinatimes.com)
Pfizer Bulks Up Before the Breakup (fool.com)

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