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15 Oct 08
Lilly Commences Cash Tender Offer for ImClone Systems at $70 Per Share
Lilly Newroom
15 Oct 08
Data Indicate Bioabsorbable Stent Platform Has Potential to Become the Next Major Breakthrough in Interventional Treatment
Abbott Newsroom
15 Oct 08
Sales of $15.9 Billion Increased 6.4% Versus a Year Ago; EPS was $1.17 Excluding 2007 Special Items, 2008 Third-Quarter EPS Increased 10.4%*
Johnson & Johnson Newsroom
14 Oct 08
The pharmaceutical industry has often been described as counter-recessionary, the broad logic being that people will always get sick, and hence there will be a continuous demand for drugs. And whilst this may be true at a surface level, a more granular analysis would reveal dissimilarities between different segments of the industry
Paul Hartigan
13 Oct 08
The new oral antidiabetic drugs sitagliptin and vildagliptin work by boosting the guts incretin hormones GLP-1 and GIP to regulate insulin secretion following food intake and glucagon secretion when blood sugar is low.
Olwen Glynn Owen-Pharmiweb Field Reporter
10 Oct 08
Looking for a job as a pharma sales rep or in pharmaceutical marketing? The quickest way to find medical or pharma sales jobs on PharmiWeb.com is to use these quicklinks. You can refine your pharma job search on the search results page, and you can save your search for daily email alerts.
Editor
08 Oct 08
In 2007, the world market for bone metabolism disorder pharmaceuticals generated sales of over $10bn - how much of this market have you captured?
Suvitha Damodaran
08 Oct 08
Current treatments for rheumatoid arthritis (RA) are failing to control patients' pain adequately, and health care professionals are not fully addressing patients' concerns, new research suggests. At the recent Annual Congress of Rheumatology meeting (EULAR) in Paris this summer, findings of a study presented during a UCB-sponsored symposium highlighted a mismatch between perceptions of patients and professionals as to what constitutes effective management of RA
Olwen Glynn Owen - Pharmiweb Field Reporter
30 Sep 08
Deciding whether or not women with breast cancer require adjuvant chemotherapy after removal of the primary tumour has traditionally been based on a series of prognostic clinical features such as tumour size, lymph node involvement, and other factors. If risk of recurrence is deemed low, adjuvant therapy and its associated toxicity can be avoided. Molecular technology is now available to help clinicians decide on the risks of a particular tumour recurring, based on its genetic fingerprint.
Olwen Glynn Owen - Pharmiweb Field reporter
30 Sep 08
The period 2008-2023 will see a vaccine "boost". There will be a new resurgence in the sales and utilisation of vaccines. Are you prepared for this? You should be.
Editor
29 Sep 08
A new national guideline will provide clarity on emergency oxygen use in adults
Bansree Takodra
29 Sep 08
Sydney, Australia 29th September, 2008. A recent case heard in the Federal Court of Australia illustrates the need for comprehensive, accurate and regularly updated patent information to ensure that the planned launch of a generic pharmaceutical product is not delayed.
Trevor Giacomelli
26 Sep 08
Alzheimer's disease is the most common cause of dementia.
Editor
24 Sep 08
This months feature focus from PharmiWeb.com covers the difference between a common cold and flu, the various symptoms and recent preventions.
PharmiWeb Editor
23 Sep 08
- Examination of the UK, US and European regional markets for prescription pharmaceuticals 2008 -
Editor
22 Sep 08
The job of a medical sales rep. (drug rep, pharmaceutical sales rep) can be an exciting and rewarding one. So what can you do to get a job in this dynamic field?
Editor
19 Sep 08
If you are new to using PharmiWeb.com in your job searching, you'll soon realise that we have thousands of jobs listed and that they change every day. This means you may initially find the task a bit daunting.
Mike Wood
16 Sep 08
- Respiratory illness effects more than 1 billion people.
- Asthma is on the increase
- Respiratory drugs generated a total revenue of more than $30.5 billion for the 12 months of 2006
- The market shows a percentage increase year-on-year
Editor
12 Sep 08
Frankly speaking, stop the guesswork and open heartedly accept that it's Google's turn now, as the next decade clearly belongs to Google, best not to resist and go with the flow.
Naseem Javed
08 Sep 08
With Google now being 10 years old, a leading medical protection organisation is highlighting the increasing trend towards patient using the search engine for online self-diagnosis.
Ciara Brannigan
08 Sep 08
Parkinson's is a progressive neurological condition affecting movements such as walking, talking, and writing. It is named after Dr. James Parkinson (1755-1824), the London doctor who first identified Parkinson's as a specific condition.
Parkinson's Disease Society
08 Sep 08
Survey finds 38% of GP practices are currently underprepared for a flu pandemic, and one in ten do not have any emergency recovery plans in place.
Stuart Gidden
05 Sep 08
All industries today face perpetual change and the need to cope with new challenges; nowhere is this trend more prevalent than in the life sciences industries, ie pharmaceuticals, biotech, diagnostics, medical devices and healthcare services.
Roger Anderson
02 Sep 08
Nearly six million people in the UK suffer from migraines with 190,000 attacks occurring every day*. Two out of three sufferers are women** and, in total, migraines cost the UK around Ă‚ÂŁ1 billion per annum***.
Marlon Bouman
02 Sep 08
Scientists have just announced the development of new medical imaging technology that can spot signs of osteoarthritis even before it starts causing joint damage.
Rita Dores
02 Sep 08
With these increasing pressures upon the pharmaceuticals industry, it has never been more important to formulate an accurately informed pricing strategy
Visiongain
29 Aug 08
A child born in a Glasgow, Scotland suburb can expect a life 28 years shorter than another living only 13 kilometers away. A girl in Lesotho is likely to live 42 years less than another in Japan. In Sweden, the risk of a woman dying during pregnancy and childbirth is 1 in 17,400; in Afghanistan, the odds are 1 in 8.
WHO
27 Aug 08
Whether you are looking for pharma sales jobs, clinical research jobs, or any other pharmaceutical job, with thousands of jobs in the PharmiWeb.com database you can be forgiven for not coming back every day to search... Well, you actually dont have to - we can do the searching for you!
Mike Wood
15 Aug 08
The UK government have told kidney cancer patients that new drugs cannot be offered on the National Health Service. Roche's Avastin, Bayer's Nexavar, Pfizer's Sutent and Wyeth's Torisel were not cost-effective. The drugs known generically as bevacizumab, sorafenib, sunitinib and temsirolimus should therefore not be a treatment option for advanced and/or metastatic kidney cancer, NICE said.
Visiongain
14 Aug 08
This feature 'What is Psoriasis?' is one of three features that focuses on the topic of skin conditions.
Pharmiweb Editor
