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In this short video, Brianna Cayo-Cotter, Change.org’s managing director of communications, talks to Pharm Exec about how advocacy organizations and individual patients are getting more involved in every facet of the healthcare system, from drug R&D, to federal and state policy, all fueled by the hour-to-hour passion of living with a disease.

Four class representatives have been added to a class-action gender-discrimination employment suit originally filed last May against Merck & Co. in New Jersey.

Cuts in healthcare costs due to post-recession austerity programs mean favorable Health Technology Assessments (HTAs) are becoming crucial to the successful market launch of pharmaceuticals in Europe.

I did something today that I haven’t done in years: I checked out the US pharmaceutical R&D spend versus the rest of the world. Having known since the 80’s that the US owned this space, a quick look at the latest R&D figures confirmed my decades old understanding of the industry’s worldwide position.

Actavis and Forest Laboratories have entered into a definitive agreement under which Actavis will acquire Forest for a combination of cash and equity valued at approximately $25 billion or $89.48 per Forest share, Actavis announced in a press release.

America’s biopharmaceutical research companies are currently developing 180 new medicines to help the nearly 400 million people who have diabetes worldwide.

To mark its 25th year in recognizing female leadership in the tough competitive ranks of biopharma, the Healthcare Businesswomen’s Association (HBA) is opting for a breakout triple play.

Despite notable successes in preventing and mitigating short supplies of important medicines, the drug shortage crisis still disrupts medical treatment and gives drug manufacturers a bad name.

The Affordable Care Act (ACA) has sent biopharmaceutical companies scrambling to understand how their business model, including its ability to innovate, will change as healthcare reform moves forward.

As the United Kingdom debate about whether to stay in the European Union becomes more bitter and intense, an insight into how EU membership impacts on medicines and pharmaceuticals has appeared from a British politician who was until recently the UK Government Adviser on Life Sciences, George Freeman.

Accenture has launched the latest version of its annual study of the biopharmaceutical industry.

Thirty-five out of every 100 job applicants in the pharmaceutical or clinical trial space in India “are lying about their credentials”, says a report by Delhi-based employee screening firm AuthBridge.

Pleas for compassionate use access are on the increase, and Change.org is giving patients an audience.

New products in development for women distressed by a lack of sexual desire and satisfying sexual experiences are causing a stir, but not for the reasons one might expect.

The European Medicines Agency (EMA), in agreement with the European Commission, has released an updated question and answer document clarifying a number of issues related to the new categories of variations to the terms of marketing authorizations that were introduced by the agency in August 2013.

The clinical trial technological landscape continues to morph, as we are starting to see the emergence of novel technologies and techniques to enhance clinical trial strategies and productivity.

The European type 2 diabetes market earned revenues of €9.50 billion in 2009 and is estimated to reach €15.46 billion in 2017 (CAGR 3.8 percent), according to new research by Frost & Sullivan.

Approximately $12.7 billion has been invested in Latin America’s (LATAM’s) pharmaceutical market through mergers and acquisitions (M&As) in recent years.

The Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) is launching new programs that are expected to encourage more analysis of the effectiveness of specific drugs and medical products

Pharma industry executives, FDA officials and Department of Justice attorneys speaking last week at CBI’s 11th annual Pharmaceutical Compliance Congress (PCC) offered solutions and threats to companies hoping to avoid enforcement actions.

Millennium Takeda's new president, Anna Protopapas, explains the life choices that brought her from Cyprus to Cambridge-and a lead position in the hotly contested search to make cancer a treatable disease.

Marketers may see further advice from the Food and Drug Administration in the coming year that clarifies how they can use social media.

The UK National Institute for Health and Care Excellence’s (NICE) decision that relapsed non-small cell lung cancer patients should no longer have access to Roche’s cancer pill Tarceva (erlotinib) is a setback for lung cancer care in England and Wales.

The European Medicines Agency (EMA) is 20 years old this year - and it confronts many of the problems familiar to anyone at that age.

Millennium Takeda’s new president, Anna Protopapas, explains to Pharm Exec’s William Looney the life choices that brought her from Cyprus to Cambridge.

For the first time, the spotlight shines on Russia's potential in biotechnology and pharma products

It is nowadays fashionable to question everyone in authority, and there is no shortage of self-appointed watchdogs who aim to make sure that things that happen are happening as they should.

It is tempting to imagine the use of the patient’s own mobile computing platform for collection of patient reported outcomes.

New research from Frost & Sullivan reveals that the global biosimilars market earned revenue of about $1.2 billion in 2013 and could reach $24 billion in 2019.

During my years with two major U.S. pharmaceutical companies, some of the most interesting individuals I got to know were field salespersons.