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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.

What does it take for internal Promotional Review Committees to function at their best and avoid costly mistakes to the company? A leading industry practitioner offers 15 tips for high performing teams.

As the process to create the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (T-TIP) gets underway, Reflector asks, what is the likelihood of drug firms - and patients - reaping any rewards from the negotiations?

Earlier this week, the federal government’s Patient Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) unveiled a new survey, revealing that both patients and clinicians want in health research to focus on one thing: improving outcomes

Editorial Director William Looney discusses the five essential characteristics exhibited by the more than 200 men and women selected by Pharmaceutical Executive as Emerging Pharma Leaders

As many of you may recall, earlier this year I commented on a section of the new Obamacare law that directed Members of Congress and their staffs to participate in the new healthcare program, effective January 1, 2014.

Roche tmpphis week has announced a partnership with the UN-backed Medicines Patent Pool (MPP) to provide its drug valganciclovir, better known in the developed world as Valcyte, in 138 countries for a reduced price.

We’re already embroiled in the annual speculation game about whether FDA approvals this year will keep pace with last year’s near-record of 39 new molecular entities (NMEs) brought to market

With announcements pouring in since the beginning of this year, FDA’s fourth and newest expedited approval pathway for medicines has begun to bear fruit. Established in 2012 within the FDA Safety and Innovation Act (FDASIA), Breakthrough Therapy designations have so far totaled 25 as of the end of July.

In the spirit of lawn chair cogitation and hammock-spun reverie, Pharm Exec invites you to submit your own verses-pharma-related, of course-to be published on our website in late August.

The trade media is ablaze with lurid accounts of bribery, tax fraud, and other illicit promotional activities in China-ironically, the country touted as guarantor of our industry's future.

The value of retrospective studies cannot be overstated. Retrospective studies affect many healthcare sectors, including the pharmaceutical industry and general public health

On Friday, the New England Health Institute (NEHI), outlined six “Priorities for Action” to help steer the solution to better medication adherence in the US.

Being an observer rather than a participant in the drugs business makes it easier to sense those defining moments when something fundamental has changed, a limit is reached, and a new order emerges to reset the basic license to operate.

Pharm Exec’s sister organization CBI hosted its annual Orphan Drug Innovation Summit in Philadelphia on July 17-18. This is a topic that I have professional interest in, as well as a general curiosity.

New survey research indicates that a country with a strong regulatory commitment for advancing drugs for rare diseases does better in getting orphan drugs to patients than countries with lesser regulatory frameworks.

The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) will have a vital role in the post 2014 value-based pricing (VBP) world. The Department of Health (DH), which still acts as the sponsor organization for the agency, has set out in more detail just what value assessment by NICE will need to do. Now NICE has to determine the methods and set up the governance and workable processes to deliver it.

Publisher Russ Pratt on the Pharmaceutical Executive value proposition

The ink is not yet dry on the European Union’s Horizon 2020 agreement to invest some €70 billion ($92 bn) in research over the next seven years, and already contenders for funding are jostling for attention.

Pharma PE Ebook

Recently, there was a bit of a dust-up over whether it was appropriate for the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to engage the National Football League (NFL) to help HHS with the process of drumming-up enrollment for health insurance exchanges. In the end, the NFL and other sports leagues decided they were not going to be involved fearing the appearance of taking political sides.

I must be going soft. I actually caught myself feeling sorry for pharma marketers the other day.

Prescription abandonment-cited as one of the major cost-related issues in healthcare-has prompted numerous efforts to raise the profile of pharmacists in driving improvements in patient utilization.

Scientific opinion has special protection under the First Amendment, but does that give pharma a free pass to BYOD – build your own dataset – publish a peer-reviewed article based on the data, and then promote it for competitive advantage?

With the FDA holding its first patient-focused drug development meeting in October of last year, regulators are starting to take notice of the impact disease-based organizations can have in improving drug trial design for new therapies-particularly for rare diseases

Not too many years ago, while employed by one of America’s leading Rx manufacturers, I remember stepping up to a retail drug store counter to pick up a prescription.

Joe Ganley, Director of State Government Affairs at McKesson, spoke earlier this year on public health policy and its implications for patient adherence. Here, he provides PharmExec with some highlights of that presentation.