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Europe’s closest thing to an Oscar’s ceremony for bioscience will take place in early October. The EuropaBio award for the most innovative European Union biotechnology firm is limited to firms with fewer than 250 staff or turnover or balance sheet of less than about $50 million.

Vaccines–once the neglected also ran in big Pharma’s armamentarium of innovations–received top billing at PhRMA’s annual Research and Hope awards held at the Washington Newseum on September 11.

Public outrage over deaths from contaminated injectables produced by large compounding pharmacies, along with rising concerns about counterfeit and unauthorized drugs entering the U.S. market, managed to lift the stalemate on Capitol Hill long enough to generate agreement on reform legislation.

As the health insurance marketplaces begin enrollment next week and go-live on January 1, 2014, several issues continue to be a source of significant confusion to manufacturers, payers and millions of consumers who will be purchasing health insurance for the first time through an exchange

At Duke University’s Fifth Annual Technology and Healthcare Conference, Eric Siegel, founder of Predictive Analytics World and executive editor of the Predictive Analytics Times called new predictive analytical tools “inevitable” disruptions to the way physicians make treatment decisions and patients receive care.

Healthcare spending will rise modestly in the US over the next decade, as economic growth picks up, health reform provides expanded coverage, and the population continues to age, according to an annual analysis from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS).

FDA commissioner Margaret Hamburg has formed a top-level working group to propose strategies for enhancing agency functions and processes, starting with the relationship between FDA Centers and its field force.

Paradigms change when questions emerge the old paradigm can no longer answer. Market access has become a buzz word as access to markets is as significant a hurdle to product usage as registration itself. I

It’s not just patients that have interesting marketing personas - HCPs have them too, writes Peter Houston.

The blurring of advertising and editorial content, particularly through publishers’ websites and mobile applications, is in the spotlight at the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) as government regulators struggle to deal with the impact of social media on health-related promotion.

Within the drug development services and life sciences industries, there is a common misconception held by many DIY marketers, in-house marketing teams and marketing agencies.

The shockwaves from the current European Union debates in Brussels on medical devices are likely to echo through the medicines business over the next few years.

The report analyzed data from several biopharmaceutical and medical device clinical trials, and emphasized several observations

At the end of this month, the European Medicines Agency will close the consultation on its draft policy on Publication and access to clinical-trial data. The aim of the policy is laudable: to open up as much information as possible into the public domain with the aim of stimulating new avenues of research.

Post Exubera, inhaled insulin has been an uphill struggle with regulators.

Dr. Shantanu Agrawal, director of data sharing & partnership group and the medical director for the center for program integrity at CMS on the Physician Payment Sunshine Act

We are now less than three weeks away from the initial sign up period for Obamacare. After October 1st, the reality of the program and all that it portends for the future of the US pharmaceutical industry will begin to make itself apparent

Smartwatches need health data to matter, writes Peter Houston.

Already approved in 22 countries, GW Pharma’s Sativex product, if approved by FDA, would become the first prescription drug derived from raw cannabis to enter the US market.

The first 120 minutes of a crisis can determine the public’s perception of an organization. And in today’s digital world, companies are more at risk than ever to viral attacks from unexpected sources.

Since the Omnicom-Publicis merger was announced in late July, it appears the only sources that have not commented on the joining of the superpowers are the President, the Pope, and WikiLeaks.

Regulators and sponsors are seeking more productive research strategies to alleviate the squeeze in R&D investment, writes Jill Wechsler.

A key issue for biopharma marketers today is balancing cost and value factors around specialty biologic drugs, particularly those for cancer and other high profile, lifealtering diseases.

The last few weeks have seen the media swamped with stories about the rampant bribery clawing the pharmaceutical industry in China

Go to any communications seminar, forum, convention or workshop right now and the program will be populated with the latest and greatest trends in social communication platforms and how important these are if you want to be successful

On Café Pharma message boards, the drug industry’s online water cooler, anonymous sales reps are sounding off on the Physician Payment Sunshine Act and its implications for their battered profession.

Novo Nordisk’s SVP of national diabetes sales speaks with PharmExec about a new field force technology initiative, implications of the Sunshine Act, and why Victoza sales won’t slow down anytime soon.

With the pharma industry spending over $31 billion a year on product promotion, the melding of ad giants Omnicom and Publicis beckons a closer look.

A key issue for biopharma marketers today is balancing cost and value factors around specialty biologic drugs, particularly those for cancer and other high profile, life-altering diseases.