Category Archives: Global

The Patent Black Label: Six Side-Effects of India's Novartis Glivec Ruling

Monday’s decision by India’s Supreme Court to deny a patent for the top-selling oncologic drug Glivec took nearly a decade of litigation to resolve – but the implications in and beyond India are both immediate and lasting.  Here’s a list of six that Pharm Exec thinks are most important:
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Marketing: Harnessing the Power of 'Pull'

Pull marketing – rethinking channel building A big problem Since the early days of the internet, we’ve been busy creating websites and other digital channels. It’s not an exaggeration to say that most pharmaceutical companies already have hundreds of websites and still more are coming. And now everybody is building apps. There’s a lot of activity here and in many ways [...]
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Social Media Guidelines: In Pursuit of a Policy

You don’t have a social media policy yet? Oh, you do, you just didn’t tell your staff? By Peter Houston. A few weeks back I wrote on this blog about the need for CEOs to get social. I’m realistic, I know that the majority of CEOs still don’t engage directly in social media. Mostly it’s “the team” [...]
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Are US and Canadian Rx Policies Converging?

by Tom Norton As the US pharmaceutical industry anxiously watches the rapid onset of Obamacare, certainly one of the more pressing issues is the debate over the number of drugs that will be reimbursed in each therapeutic class under the Essential Health Benefits (EHB) program.  To say that this is a critical concern for the future [...]
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PharmExec's 2013 Brand of the Year

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