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Not so long ago, pharmaceutical brand managers considered drug packaging an afterthought. Today, packaging not only matters, it is quickly becoming one of the most important considerations in the growth and success of any drug product. Manufacturers now consider innovative, smart packaging that pleases patients in their new roles as consumers, and encourages brand loyalty to be a game changer in an increasingly competitive and crowded biopharmaceutical market.

Sponsored contentThe term “patient centric” has become an almost catch-all term. Cheryl Lubbert looks at the broad range of its application. A review of how patient centricity is being applied shows that it is all of these things and more. A look at just a few different uses of the term shows the broad range of its application:

Watching the latest volleys fly in the ongoing specialty drug pricing wars, Tom Norton wonders: Is it possible that all involved couldn’t just step back and take a breath?

Tactics pharma leaders can implement to stem the continued global threat of counterfeit drugs.

Pricing and Sovaldi couldn’t avoid mention at this week’s World Medical Innovation Forum put on by Partners Healthcare in Boston. The meeting highlighted multiple issues in neuroscience but also touched on hot buttons across the industry.

Is it time to view cell therapy companies differently on Wall Street-even distinct from biotech?

Last week’s announcement by UnitedHealth Group of its planned acquisition of pharmacy benefits manager (PBM) Catamaran for $12.8 billion officially puts the pharmaceutical industry on notice that the “war” on drug prices is escalating, writes Michael Griffith.

Does patient choice matter to antitrust enforcers?

In reaction to AbbVie’s massive acquisition of Pharmacyclics, investors who were caught unprepared are looking for ways they could have predicted the deal. Casey McDonald looks at the reaction on Twitter.

The cholesterol-fighting market is back with a vengeance; plenty of complications in store

How pharma can finally put true meaning behind its juiced-up jargon and turn the bluster into reality.

Two commercial marketing experts discuss how this mission critical function must change to stay relevant in bringing new therapies to the patients who need them.

As we wrap up the week in San Francisco, here’s PharmExec's brief rundown of some of the top tweets of the week from JP Morgan and Biotech Showcase.

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With its new healthcare insurance scheme, Jaminan Kesehatan Nasional (JKN), aiming to cover all citizens by 2019, next year will see Indonesia emerge as the most promising emerging market for pharma investment, according the Frost & Sullivan’s Reenita Das.

Building an effective drug forecasting model today requires a revamped approach.

At first glance Obamacare developments for the American Rx industry in 2015 appear fairly benign. However, digging deeper suggests that each, in its own way, could cause various actions with potential for substantial uncertainty for the U.S. pharmaceutical industry next year. If your response to this profound observation was, “Really, what’s new?” - read on.

Pharm Exec profiles Express Scripts' Chief Medical Officer, Dr. Steve Miller, whose rise to prominence as an articulate critic of drug industry prices symbolizes the growing clout of America's largest pharmacy benefit manager.

US researchers and regulators continue to support the use of randomized clinical trials to test potential treatments and vaccines to combat the Ebola virus, despite objections that this approach is unethical and unfair to vulnerable populations

The Food and Drug Administration is moving fast to implement the drug compounding provisions of new Drug Quality and Security Act (DQSA), issuing new guidance to spur registration by outsourcing facilities just days after President Obama signed the new bill into law.

For Moe Alsumidaie, the most concrete definition for patient centricity is “a dynamic process through which the patient regulates the flow of information to and from him/her via multiple pathways to exercise choice that is consistent with his/her preferences, values and beliefs.

Not all companies are big, small companies are scared, and myths drive behavior, stated Kay Holcombe, Senior Vice President, Science Policy at Biotechnology Industry Organization (BIO).

Cleveland Clinic's Pick of Top 10 Advances for 2015.

The pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries, like all industries, are facing industry-specific changes coupled with disruptive events in the external global environment.

The innovation debate (Why isn’t there more or it? How much should we pay for it? Just what is it anyway?!) remains a lively one in the UK. Lord Saatchi’s Medical Innovation Bill is just one part of this debate.

The battle against hepatitis C (HCV) is a relatively new, and highly dynamic, one.

“Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far they can go,” said T.S. Elliot. Cancer Research UK (CRUK) followed this advice when it decided to have its Center for Drug Development (CDD) adopt a risk-based monitoring (RBM) approach across its entire portfolio of clinical trials.