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In this short video, Brianna Cayo-Cotter, Change.org’s managing director of communications, talks to Pharm Exec about how advocacy organizations and individual patients are getting more involved in every facet of the healthcare system, from drug R&D, to federal and state policy, all fueled by the hour-to-hour passion of living with a disease.

Four class representatives have been added to a class-action gender-discrimination employment suit originally filed last May against Merck & Co. in New Jersey.

Accenture has launched the latest version of its annual study of the biopharmaceutical industry.

Thirty-five out of every 100 job applicants in the pharmaceutical or clinical trial space in India “are lying about their credentials”, says a report by Delhi-based employee screening firm AuthBridge.

The European Medicines Agency (EMA), in agreement with the European Commission, has released an updated question and answer document clarifying a number of issues related to the new categories of variations to the terms of marketing authorizations that were introduced by the agency in August 2013.

The European type 2 diabetes market earned revenues of €9.50 billion in 2009 and is estimated to reach €15.46 billion in 2017 (CAGR 3.8 percent), according to new research by Frost & Sullivan.

Strong, skilled management is on the agenda as never before. Find out who made 2010's roster of high-potential change masters-and how they plan to lead the industry through the turbulent times ahead.