Over 40 service companies specializing in managing sample-distribution programs, handling patient interactions and providing shipping and storage services will be on hand at this year’s PDMA Sharing Conference (New Orleans, Sept. 14-17). PDMA Alliance maintains a close working relationship with FDA on evolving regulatory requirements. At the same time, service providers . . .
China’s Cathay Pacific opens ‘Pharma Lift’ for biopharma shipping services
The international air cargo business has a new player with tailored pharmaceutical services: Cathay Pacific Cargo (Jamaica, NY). The company has announced a service, Pharma Lift, to provide priority services for pharma ...
Out with pedigree; in with patient safety
Just as the tide is slipping out for broadbased information systems to establish drug pedigree, it is rising for preventing medication errors, especially in healthcare settings. A new association, the ...
First ‘Dear Doctor’ Notice Arrives Via Online Network
It’s taken nearly three years to get up and running, but it is now possible for pharma manufacturers to send FDA-sanctioned notifications to physicians via an e-mail network, the Health Care Notification Network (HCNN) ...
Specialty pharmacy business is resorting itself
For an undisclosed price, Walgreens is acquiring McKesson’s business in specialty pharmacy, which Walgreens says will strengthen it as the fourth-largest specialty pharmacy in the U.S. The acquisition includes the McKesson specialty pharmacy . ...
2009 U.S. pharma growth will slips to 1-2%, says IMS Health
While the global growth projection of 4.5-5.5% is in line with last year’s pace, IMS Health predicts that domestic growth will fall even farther than it has in 2008, with both this year’s and next year’s growth rate expected to be in the 1-2% ...
Cardinal Health Builds Out its 'Suspicious Order Monitoring Program'
The top-line news that Cardinal Health released last week is that DEA licenses for four of its distribution centers have been reinstated, following a series of DEA enforcement actions in late 2007 and early 2008. DEA charged that Cardinal was distributing excessive amounts of ...
It’s official: California e-pedigree rules are pushed out to 2015
On the last day possible without discarding the legislation altogether, California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger approved SB 1307, the bill written this past summer that will delay implementation of California’s pedigree rules to ...
Pharma Looks to Service Providers for Kit Assembly
It has never been a mainstream method of pharmaceutical delivery, but reports are mounting that more pharmaceuticals are being delivered to retail outlets or healthcare providers as a kit—including drug delivery devices such as syringes, the pharmaceutical(s), and ancillary products for instruction, application or testing. At various times, product launch teams see value . ...
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