Are Pharma Sales Reps Service Employees?
The Supreme Court agreed to decide whether drug companies have to pay their sales representatives for working overtime hours, "a question that could have considerable financial impact on the industry," according...
Deconstructing Pitts’ Guiding Principles for Pharma Social Media
Peter Pitts over at DrugWonks Blog has put together 11 "principles that must serve as the basic substrate of regulated social media participation" (see here). Pitts offered these principles because he...
What’s On Pharma’s 2011 List for Santa?
At this time every year, the good "boys and girls" of U.S. pharmaceutical industry send a letter to Santa that includes a list "presents" they would like to receive. Help me...
Pfizer, World’s Most Innovative Drug Company – Not!
Pfizer is the world's most "innovative" drug company, not in terms of developing new drugs to treat, for example, high cholesterol -- which it failed at spectacularly (see "Why Pfizer Flopped"),...
Calling Merck: Help Save the Honey Bee!
The European Parliament has called on the pharmaceutical industry to play a role in finding a solution to halt the rapid decline of the honey bee (see "Can Big Pharma Halt...
Cancer Drugs: Greener Pastures for Pharma R&D and Wall Street
Two news items regarding medical/pharmaceutical research caught my attention today. Both involve stem cells.
The first item was about research results revealed at the American Heart Association's annual conference. US researchers found...
Occupy Pfizer! Protest It’s Deal to Block Sales of Generic Lipitor! #OccupyPFE
"I'm mad as hell and I'm not going to take this any more!"
I love that line from the 1976 movie Network. The whole scene in which fictional news anchor Howard Beale...
Your Wife, Your Choice – Diapers or Detrol (now Toviaz)?
Pfizer's @pfizer_news Twitter account just posted this tweet:
"Toviaz top-line primary endpoint results positive in overactive bladder study of nocturnal urinary urgency http://t.co/OU60l6oZ" (see here).
The link is to a press release that...
Pharma Turns Up the Heat on Off-Label “Free Speech” Chilled by FDA – Implications...
"FDA’s regulations censor manufacturers," says the Medical Information Working Group (MIWG), an "informal" group of pharmaceutical companies that includes Allergan, Amgen, Boehringer Ingelheim USA, Eli Lilly & Co., GlaxoSmithKline, Johnson &...
Do Women Take More Drugs Than Men Because They Need To or Because They...
Aside from Viagra, there's hardly a prescription drug I've heard of that women are NOT the major users of. Take, for example, this bit of information regarding Ambien as reported recently...
