Database helps identify most effective drugs
May 1st 1997Practice Paterns Science Inc., St. Louis, has developed PTE-Registry,™ a national comparative database designed to help pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies identify the drugs that produce more efficient treatment patterns with fewer side effects
PhRMA head calls for 'revolution'
May 1st 1997The pharmaceutical industry, by pioneering innovative "decisive technologies" to treat disease, offers "breakthroughs" that shatter the negative assumptions stifling customers' confidence in medical progress, according to Sidney Taurel, chairman of the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America, Washington.
Study to evaluate medication use data
May 1st 1997Routine medication use, as-needed medication use and psychotherapeutic medication usage across nursing facilities will be evaluated in a study sponsored by the American Society of Consultant Pharmacists' Research and Education Foundation, Alexandria, VA.
Arthritis treatment market fueled by new technology
May 1st 1997The number of arthritis patients in the United States is expected to increase from an estimated 37 million in 1995 to about 41.3 million in 2002, according to a report from Frost & Sullivan, a Mountain View, CA-based international consulting firm.
Hospitals, industry battle over discounts
April 1st 1997A coalition of the National Association of Public Hospitals and Health Systems, New York, believes that if state and local health care facilities had access to federal discounts on drugs, they would save millions of dollars without raising prices for the government and the private sector.
Solvay reorganizes its sales force
April 1st 1997The company's sales representatives will no longer be responsible for marketing the full range of Solvay Pharmaceuticals products. Instead, representatives will focus solely on one specialty: obstetrics and gynecology, gastroenterology and cystic fibrosis, or psychiatry.