October 13/2015
Europe
Small Steps Towards Big Pricing Changes
Pharm Exec’s Brussells correspondent Reflector outlines the current measures European countries are working or collaborating on to achieve a better understanding of pricing issues ... / Read more / |
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Emerging Markets
What Makes A Good Patient Advocacy Strategy for Russia?
Though advocacy communications is now recognized in established markets, there is no clear-cut path to success in creating an advocacy strategy. In regions such as Russia and CIS, advocacy strategies become even more complex due to the political, cultural and regulatory differences. Nick Hicks looks at ways of moving forward ...
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Technology
Tablet Innovation: Sizing Up the Value
A representative survey of Germans and Americans has revealed that solid oral dosage forms like tablets and capsules are far from optimal in many cases. In fact, 50% of people have problems swallowing medication in this form, resulting in many failing to adhere to their dosing regimen. This represents a big opportunity for pharma, writes Thomas Hein ...
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Social Media
Tweets & Drugs & Rock n' Roll: The Power of the Shkreli Shockwaves
Peter Houston was surprised to find himself discussing Turing Pharmaceutical’s Daraprim in the offices of ClassicRock magazine. What’s even more surprising was impact the price hike on the toxoplasmosis treatment was having on a punk record label ...
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industry update
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MISSION Therapeutics (Cambridge, UK) appointed David Luther as Chief Financial Officer. |
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Professors Alois Fürstner and Alois Jungbauer were appointed to the Scientific Advisory Board of Novasep (Pompey, France). |
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Dr Maurice Chagnaud was named Chief Executive Officer of Polish pharmaceutical group, Polpharma (Starogard Gdanski, Poland).
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Dr Hans-Peter Wild and Jacques Theurillat have been appointed to the Board of Directors of ADC Therapeutics (Lausanne, Switzerland, London, UK, and Murray Hill, NJ). |
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LANXESS (Cologne, Germany) appointed Dr. Hubert Fink to the Board of Management. |
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