Tag Archives: Pharma

The Potential Pain in Deficit Reduction

By Jennifer Ringler | Published: November 17, 2010
The US National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility’s draft report report signals US embrace of a fixed annual global budget for health care spending — experience in other countries suggests this will add to pressure for further cost controls on medicines beyond what is ordered up in Obamacare. Last week, Erskine Bowles and Alan Simpson, co-chairs for [...]
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Pharma Gets the ProPublica Treatment

By Walter Armstrong | Published: October 27, 2010
Alternative news organization and media allies investigate the industry’s payments to doctors—launching a fresh assault on the ethical status quo. By Walter Armstrong Last week, Big Pharma’s practice of paying doctors to do medical education, promote its products, or both was the focus of a multimedia blitz launched by ProPublica in collaboration with National Public Radio, the [...]
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Social Media and Healthcare Consumers: A Report

By Jennifer Ringler | Published: September 17, 2010
In the past decade, social networking has changed the way most of us live our day-to-day lives. So how has it affected pharma’s relationship with consumers, and vice versa? A recent report from ROI Research grants a glimpse into this changing relationship. Social networking is no longer something people (patients, healthcare providers, physicians) are merely talking [...]
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What Is Behind the Genzyme Job Cuts?

By Julian Upton | Published: September 15, 2010
Troubled biotech Genzyme’s (Cambridge, MA) planned elimination of over 1,000 jobs (10% of its 12,800 workforce, according to the Boston Globe) over the next 15 months is not related to the takeover bid from French giant Sanofi Aventis, the company has said.
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Patients Want to Talk. Do You?

By Julian Upton | Published: August 18, 2010
Why are companies rushing to the web when traditional engagement with patient groups remains so under-exploited, asks Jacky Law. It used to be so easy. Patients listened to doctors, doctors listened to pharma and everyone was happy. There was even a time when payers listened to pharma, reimbursing their prices with very few questions asked. Now [...]
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