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UK Pharma More Diverse than French and German Counterparts

Sales Force Effectiveness, Millennial Style

Bial Launches International Parkinson’s Campaign

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The EFPIA Disclosure Experience: An Update
Nine months on from the 2016 EFPIA Disclosure Code deadline — requiring all member companies to publish data concerning their transfer-of-value transactions to HCPs —EFPIA offered an update on media and industry responses at a recent conference in London.
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Life Sciences' Shifting Sands: Five Trends that Threaten the Status Quo
If pharma companies want to hold their own in the current climate, they must embrace rather than resist market change, writes Peter Muller.
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Three Ways President Trump’s FDA Can Help to Cure Cancer
Curing cancer is not an impossibility anymore. Essential to any effort to achieve this will be the policies coming from President Trump's administration, writes James Nathanielsz.
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R&D
Advancing Rare Disease Research: An IRDiRC Mission Update
Six years in, Pharm Exec looks at the progress of the International Rare Diseases Research Consortium.
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Europe
EMA Guidance on RMPs in the EU
EMA released the revised Module V- Risk Management Systems (Rev 2) of Good Pharmacovigilance Practice (GVP) (EMA/838713/2011 Rev 2) accompanied by a revised Guidance on the format of the risk management plan (RMP) in the EU.
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Calendar
/ April 26–28: CBI's 14th Annual Pharmaceutical Compliance Congress /
Washington, DC
/ June 6–7: Pharmaceutical Compliance Congress Canada /
Toronto, CA
/ June 27–28: Publication and Clinical Trial Transparency /
Barcelona, Spain
/ September 14–15: Risk Based Global Monitoring 2017 /
Barcelona, Spain
/ October 24–25: 12th Annual Value-Based Oncology Management /
Scottsdale, AZ
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Industry update
//UDG Healthcare announced the appointment of Jez Moulding as Chief Operating Officer of UDG and Executive Vice President of Ashfield, effective May 2, 2017.//Recipharm (Stockholm, Sweden) announced the appointment of Henrik Stenqvist Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer.//Aelix Therapeutics (Barcelona, Spain) appointed Dr. Ian McGowan as Chief Medical Officer.//Allecra Therapeutics (Lörrach, Germany and Saint Louis, France) named Dr. Engelbert (Bert) Tjeenk Willink as Chairman of the Board and Dr. Leon Hooftman as Chief Medical Officer. Dr. Holger Reithinger of Forbion Partners steps down as Chairman and remains on Allecra's Advisory Board.//
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