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According to a new report by the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA), America’s biopharmaceutical research companies are developing 435 new medicines to target 15 leading chronic conditions affecting the Medicare population.

The medicines business is all about data. Drug discovery relies on the meticulous interpretation of experimental results; clinical trials involve carefully analysing streams of information relating to patient response; even physician decision-making around the most appropriate therapies is becoming more and more data driven.

Earlier this year, FDA promised three sets of guidelines to clarify using social media for pharma marketing. Last week it delivered two of them

As I read the latest reports of yet another big US Rx firm, this time AbbVie, trying to pull off a “tax inversion” takeover of the Irish-based Shire, I couldn’t help but wonder, what the heck is going on here?

Do I have the only e-mail inbox clogged with more and more content about content marketing?

While at DIA’s 50th Annual Meeting, we got the chance to speak with Nancy Dreyer, chief of scientific affairs and senior VP at Quintiles Outcome, the CRO’s real-world and late-phase research division, about the current tide for comparative effectiveness research (CER).

“It doesn’t turn me on to send a warning letter.” –Tom Abrams, during a Q&A at DIA.

Andy Bender and Geert van Gansewinkel outline eight lessons for executing a soft change program for enhancing compliance effectiveness within European life sciences organizations.

AbbVie’s recent $54 billion acquisition of Shire and subsequent relocation to Ireland will mean substantial tax savings for the US pharmaceutical giant, according to analysts at research and consulting firm GlobalData.

While action is heating up at the international level to tackle counterfeit drugs, Europe is making its own efforts to stop fake medicines from entering the legal supply chain.

The pharma, medical and biotech industry is the leading sector for M&A activity this year, Mergermarket‘s Q2 M&A stats reveal.

For pharma companies, entering the social media scene is not as simple as just creating a Facebook page or learning how to tweet in 140 characters or less.

The UK government pledged late last year that it would double funding for dementia research by 2025 (from £66m [US$112m] in 2015 to £122m [US$207m]), but today Prime Minister David Cameron spoke on the subject again in light of expert warnings that little progress is being made.

At the annual meeting of the Food and Drug Law Institute (FDLI) this year, FDA commissioner Margaret Hamburg concluded her keynote address by describing a “dramatically changing global marketplace” and its “huge implications” for FDA’s ability to ensure the safety and quality of products manufactured elsewhere.

Big Pharma employment dropped by 3 percent in the decade 2003–2013, allaying fears that industry consolidation and restructuring would lead to significantly reduced headcounts and payrolls, a report by EP Vantage reveals.

Ahead of the BIO International Convention next week, Jim Greenwood, President and CEO of the Biotechnology Industry Organization, writes that protecting intellectual property rights is vital to biopharma innovation.

A new report from GlobalData states that the increase of biosimilars will have a negative impact on the biologics market after 2019.

Biopharmaceutical drug discovery companies have progressively tailored their pipelines to specialty therapeutic areas and smaller patient populations.

When Audre McDonald accepted her sixth Tony Award (theater’s version of the Academy Awards) this month in New York City.

The European Medicine Agency’s Pharmacovigilance and Risk Assessment Committee (PRAC) has started a review to evaluate the cardiovascular risks with systemic ibuprofen medicines.

The major pressures hindering pharmaceutical industry success have not changed-payer constraints on drug costs, R&D productivity.

The future of GSK’s Tykerb (lapatinib) in the breast cancer market is unclear, after the combination of Tykerb and Herceptin in the large Phase III trial.

Brunei is harnessing its rich biodiversity and the growing halal market in a bid to develop its pharmaceutical sector.

They say the road to hell is paved with good intentions.

Pressure is mounting on European legislators to introduce tighter regulations at both the European Union (EU) and national levels on the potentially harmful impact of pharmaceuticals on the environment.

Biopharmaceutical companies have traditionally considered outsourcing as a way to control costs and manage their internal resources to make the core activities left in-house more efficient.

The recent geopolitical developments in Ukraine have seriously influenced the conditions and the environment for clinical trials in Ukraine and in Russia.

Years ago, while sitting in an Rx company lunch room, I was listening to one of the company’s top sales reps discuss the commercial progress a recently launched prescription was making.

Speaking at the 2014 New York BIO conference, FDA Commissioner, Dr. Margaret Hamburg, addressed the pressing issues affecting the biopharmaceutical industry and the FDA

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