Patent Activities and Issues
Patent Activities and Issues Pricing is a major microeconomic factor at the time of [patent] expiry: the patent holder has the option of joining the fight with a price drop,…
Poor Development and Corporate Practices: Threats to a Pharmaceutical Organization
Poor Development and Corporate Practices: Threats to a Pharmaceutical Organization It is never too late—in fiction or in life—to revise. –Nancy Thayer, novelist. There is nothing so useless as doing…
Information Management
Information Management Information and data are the coins of the drug discovery and development realm. –Bert Spilker No amount of sophistication is going to allay the fact that all your…
Legal Activities and Issues
Legal Activities and Issues Life and law must be kept closely in touch, as you can’t adjust life to law, you must adjust law to life. The only point in…
Joint Medical and Marketing Activities
Joint Medical and Marketing Activities Fundamentally, there are only two ways of coordinating the economic activities of millions. One is central direction involving the use of coercion—the technique of the…
Technical Development Activities and Issues
Technical Development Activities and Issues I never varied from the managerial rule that the worst possible thing we could do would be to lie dead in the water with any…
Animal Testing and Animal Welfare
Animal Testing and Animal Welfare The public will choose to believe a simple lie rather than a complex truth. –Alexis De Tocqueville Everyone “knows” what animals are, but the word…
Providing Product Information to Healthcare Professionals
Providing Product Information to Healthcare Professionals In your thirst for knowledge, be sure not to drown in all the information. –Anthony J. D’Angelo One of the effects of living with…
Pharmacokinetics
Pharmacokinetics Theory guides. Experiment decides. Attributed to many different people. The hypotheses we accept ought to explain phenomena which we have observed. But they ought to do more than this:…
Costs and Pricing
Costs and Pricing Within Europe there are as many pricing and reimbursement systems as there are countries. A low price in one country is undesirable not only because it reduces…
