Monthly Archives: April 2011

California Life Sciences to Partner with China

By Ben Comer | Published: April 13, 2011
BIOCOM, a trade group representing Southern California’s life sciences industry, is ramping up partnership efforts in China to meet an emerging desire for novel drug therapies. While intellectual property (IP) protections and the Chinese government’s willingness to pay for expensive new products represent two large and lingering question marks, Joe Panetta, president and CEO at BIOCOM, [...]
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The High Cost of Staying Lean

By William Looney | Published: April 13, 2011
It’s annual meeting time for Big Pharma — and trimming the fat to deliver more bacon to shareholders is the C suite’s preferred plat du jour. But taking costs out of the business can carry a staggering special supplement charge to the menu, with far more at stake than the economizing equivalent of that McDonald’s [...]
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A Brighter Future for Biotech

By Jennifer Ringler | Published: April 6, 2011
A new report commissioned by the Biotech Industry Organization (BIO) proposes new creative solutions to the current problems facing the biotech industry. While the report recognizes that changes cannot happen overnight, the suggestions here may be the first small steps on the path to improving the sector’s potential for growth. “The Road to a Brighter Future [...]
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Governor Howard Dean: Financing the Future of US Drug Innovation

By William Looney | Published: April 6, 2011
Will it be More Good Pills — Or that Porsche? The Obama Administration’s signal achievement to date — passage of comprehensive health reform legislation — continues to inspire confusion and contradictions across the political spectrum. Despite its scope, the bill is dismissed by many Democrats for what it does not do, while the GOP [...]
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How Will Accountable Care Organizations Hit Drug Sales?

By Ben Comer | Published: April 5, 2011
It’s not yet clear whether physicians will rush to form accountable care organizations (ACOs) in light of newly proposed Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) guidelines, which are lengthy, but pharmaceutical companies hoping to do business with ACOs will have to show that expensive brand drugs can offer not just better health outcomes, but [...]
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