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FDA regulations violate free speech

Active listening will help you remain focused on your customers, thereby allowing you to uncover their real needs.

Johnson & Johnson, New Brunswick, NJ, has entered into an agreement with Centocor Inc., Malvern, PA, under which the two companies will merge.

PR salutes reps who make a difference.

Congress is considering a bill that would establish an independent review process to consider patent extensions for drugs that spent more time than normal in the FDA review process.

Pharmaceutical Representative welcomed two new members to its editorial advisory board in 1999: Mark Osborne, director of sales training at Chicago-based Searle and Professor Mickey Smith, professor of pharmacy administration and the director of the Center for Pharmaceutical Marketing and Management at the University of Mississippi.

On July 28, a district court judge in Washington ruled that some provisions of the FDA Modernization Act are unconstitutional because they violate pharmaceutical companies' rights to free speech.

An "evidence-based formulary" that compares the safety, efficacy and cost of pharmaceuticals in the top eight therapeutic classes is being made available to clients of Express Scripts.

Some reps may be promoted to management before they're ready.

Five ways to tip the scales in your favor.

Minnesota health maintenance organizations increased their average per-member premium revenue but continued to lose money, according to the recently released Minnesota Managed Care Review 1999.

Helping novices climb the sales mountain.

For Searle's David Washco, it was a "very honorable and very humbling experience" - not to mention a big surprise - when the company named him its 1998 rep of the year.

Results from a new survey shed new light on how frequently health plans and care providers disagree about appropriate care for patients.

RJR Tobacco Co., long known for its cigarette products, is turning its knowledge of nicotine into compounds that fight Alzheimer's and Parkinson's diseases.

One of the best methods to build relationships and gain valuable application knowledge is to take part in a preceptorship.

Investor-owned health maintenance organizations fall short of non-profit HMOs in 14 quality-of-care indicators, according to a recent study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association.

Make your working relationship a two-way street.

When asking doctors whether or not they have been prescribing a drug, specialty sales rep David Schwartz's advice is, "Don't accept yes or no for an answer."

How one rep turned the tables.

The FDA's drug approval process.

Wit, wisdom and the art of lifelong learning.

Swiss pharmaceutical manufacturer Hoffman-La Roche Ltd. plead guilty to an extensive global price-fixing conspiracy surrounding vitamins, the U.S. Department of Justice announced.

How adept are you at uncovering objections.

Blood donation is a way for companies to give something to their communities.

Contributions from this year's reader's writing contest entrants.

The boards of directors of the French firms Sanofi and Synthélabo presented a plan to each company's shareholders to merge the two companies into Sanofi-Synthélabo.

Ortho-McNeil Pharmaceuticals funded a survey that revealed more recent perceptions about pain and pain management.