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Patient Assistance Programs: Are They Still Relevant?

By William Looney | Published: March 12, 2012
One of the key reputational assets of Big Pharma is the patient assistance program [PAP], which provides patented innovative medicines to needy patients for free or at a nominal charge – it’s the industry’s own branded version of the social safety net. But a shifting landscape of government fiscal pressures, economic decline and the erratic [...]
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PCORI, Priorities, and Politics

By William Looney | Published: February 1, 2012
William Looney looks at the three P’s of effectiveness  research:  PCORI, Priorities, and Politics If you ever wanted to know what health economists might do with a billion dollars, the Obama Administration’s  Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute [PCORI] is about to tell all:  not right down to the penny, but good enough.  The congressionally funded – [...]
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JP Morgan Healthcare Conference Marked by Uncertainty

By Guest Blogger | Published: January 12, 2012
2012 J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference Marked by Uncertainty Audrey S. Erbes, Principal, Erbes & Associates, outlines the highlights of this week’s event in San Francisco. One of the few positive notes struck in this week’s 30th Annual J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference (held in San Francisco) was the announcement by Kevin Willsey, J.P. Morgan’s co-head of investment banking [...]
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Election Landslide: What Now for Spanish Healthcare?

By Julian Upton | Published: November 22, 2011
The fact that the eurozone is in a tailspin is hardly ‘news’, but when heads start rolling as fast as they have done recently in Greece, Italy, and now Spain, it leaves the unsettling feeling that the heat on an already intense situation has been turned up one more notch.
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The Seven-Billion Society: What's In It For Pharma?

By William Looney | Published: November 2, 2011
On Monday, the world’s population hit the 7 billion mark, repeating a pattern of largely unrestrained growth that has endured for the last century: the world is now adding roughly one billion people every 12 years. The UN Population Fund (UNPF) estimates that, barring some unforeseen demographic or environmental/development shifts, the figure will reach just [...]
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