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Pharm Exec’s 2012 Industry Audit relies on 2011 data to compare performance against 2010.

Innovation Excellence is a unique application of lean kaizen methodologies and personal coaching. It frees up capacity for innovative research, fosters ownership and significantly enhances the output of your research and innovation teams.

The Access to Medicines Index is an attempt to measure and compare the corporate social responsibility of both innovator (20) and generics (7) companies based on a number of different (and often quixotic) indicators.

The pharmaceutical industry still lags other industries in spending on outbound social media programs that engage customers directly.

The FDA and the Advanced Medical Technology Association (AdvaMed) gave cardiovascular device manufacturers plenty to think about over the holiday weekend with information presented at an Aug. 28 workshop.

Busting the Tape

Autumn is a good time to present our annual post on how well the industry is doing in harvesting value for shareholders. Our diverse list of 24 companies, drawn from Big Pharma to the established biotechs, presents a similarly mixed picture on returns: smaller firms with a distinct customer base and tight oversight of costs are by and large proving more adept at delivering the strong growth that investors still expect from this business.

"Payers have evolved to become powerful global contenders with pharma for increasingly limited funding of drug budgets."

It’s something of an enigma that most physicians are keen to learn about and use cutting edge medicines and devices for their patients.

Public policy activities should be a distinct, mission critical function for Big Pharma - our business depends increasingly on government as a key customer.

The European Union is at last groping its way towards some form of standardization in judging the value of medicines.

The European Union is at last groping its way towards some form of standardization in judging the value of medicines.

Global Launch in the Post-Blockbuster Era

Today’s big product story - the apparent end to a decade-long drought in the drug development pipeline - is the prep stage for tomorrow’s big policy question: are industry R&D priorities in synch with the changing burden of disease?

Forest Labs has had a tough time with regulators over the last two years. The company’s sales reps can’t seem to stop breaking the law.

Can’t get your sales rep into that academic medical center? Try sending a medical science liaison (MSL).

Piramal Pivots for Growth

This month's feature by Ben Comer highlights what's behind the new Corporate Integrity Agreement (CIA) imposed on GSK by theHHS Office of Inspector-General to compensate for a long list of marketing and pricing malfeasances

The decisions you make today about patents – what, when and where to file – could have implications tantamount to billions of dollars in R&D investment and sales over the next two decades.

Patient groups are a growing force, not just in the debate around tactical areas of medical specialities, but also on the vital question of pricing and reimbursement rules. But will their voices be heard? Reflector reports.

Industry is finding it harder to secure market access and payer uptake for new products. Innovative contracting may offer a solution. But is it working? Andrea Sobrio reports.

It’s an unusual sight in the UK - a television commercial for a Big Pharma company. But among the cultural and commercial innovations being attributed to the London Olympic Games is GSK’s first UK consumer-facing corporate brand campaign, showcasing its anti-doping operations.

At CBI’s 7th Annual Rare Disease and Orphan Drug Leadership Congress, speakers and attendees identified areas where pharma can improve the way it approaches rare disease and treatment.

Like governors in the US vowing to block Medicaid expansion in their home states, local primary care trusts (PCTs) in the UK don’t always follow national guidelines on drug access due to budgetary concerns.

It may surprise some working in the industry, but pharmaceutical companies, in particular those in Europe, rank among the world’s best online corporate communicators, writes David Bowen.

Last month, Pharm Exec, the Tufts Center for the Study of Drug Development and software vendor Clear Trial brought companies together for an editorial exchange on current challenges in budgeting and spend for clinical trials.

EFPIA president Andrew Witty is hoping that the deepening European economic crisis will impel European leaders towards more courageous and radical solutions, writes Reflector.