May 13th 2025
Trump anticipates that the executive order will help lower drug prices by 30% to 80%.
May 12th 2025
The financial decision is due to customer demand stemming from the reshoring of drug supply services.
The President plans to sign an executive order on Monday morning to enforce the trade clause.
April 30th 2025
A seminar shares key observations and learnings from the first round of direct price negotiations.
April 29th 2025
IQVIA’s Doug Long offers a lay of the land, including trends and developing issues that are shaping the current market.
Consider enterprise quality management systems for GDP tasks
The growing compliance requirements for distribution call for a streamlined approach
Changing of the guard at PDMA Alliance
FDA provides more guidances for compounding pharmacies; HHS worries about volume growth
New guidance restricts some compounding to other than “essentially copies” of approved products
2015 Open Payments data are available at CMS.gov
check on your doc, a company or a form of compensation
Researchers correlate brand-name prescribing with industry-funded lunching
Pharma sales practices get raked over again—to what end?
The Feds blink: FedEx is exonerated of illegal drug distribution
Case falls apart as a 'skeptical' judge calls the company 'factually innocent'
FedEx trial over illicit drug dispensing opens in San Francisco
Feds contend that FedEx knowingly performed illegal drug deliveries
Verizon picks rfXcel to offer traceability to pharma clients
rfXcel’s Traceability Platform becomes part of Verizon’s ThingSpace
FDA streamlines its ‘compassionate use’ process
New physician’s form is supposed to reduce the complexity of obtaining investigational drugs
Prescription-drug abuse legislation signed into law
Ensuring Patient Access and Effective Drug Enforcement Act (S. 483) calls for better industry-government coordination
FDA proposes guidance for biosimilar product labels
Labels will have a combination of reference-product and biosimilar-specific information
Imprimis Pharmaceuticals pushes the definition of pharmaceutical manufacturing
An all-compounding "manufacturer" has big plans for growth
Reltio captures IT analysts' attention for master data management
Announces a new version of its "platform as a service," with connectivity to Apache Spark
New ProPublica analysis correlates physician payments with higher brand prescribing
Ophthamology tops the breakout by physician specialty
QPharma revamps its commercialization/compliance IT suite as Titanium
Sample distribution management, payments reporting and sales-rep training
J. Knipper heads CBI conference on sampling management
The anatomy of an optimized sampling supply chain
Pharmaceutical cold chain logistics is a $12.6-billion global industry
Pharmaceutical Commerce's annual Cold Chain Sourcebook projects 52% growth between 2014 and 2020
Call it the United Nations of Veeva OpenData
Database now covers 35 countries and 19 million HCPs
Use data analytics to monitor 340B discount drug pricing
Discerning how and where products are discounted is an expensive headache for manufacturers
A case study in differing approaches to reimbursement approval in Europe and the US
Looking at 'cost' and 'value' under different evaluation processes
Five tips to protect pharma brands online
MarkMonitor updates its surveillance surveys against counterfeiting and drug diversion
Donald Trump is no friend of the pharma industry
New healthcare proposals re-open talk of drug importation
DEA meets with pharma supply chain leaders over opioid abuse--and that's the news
Government at all levels are trying to mobilize to address the crisis
Horizon Pharma is caught up in DoJ investigations of specialty-phamacy relations
Friction continues with Express Scripts as well
NHIA finalizes standardized definitions for home infusion services
Advisory program makes data reporting more uniform
European Union sets February 2019 for serialized authentication of pharma products
Latest 'delegated regulation' of the Falsified Medicines Directive is promulgated
Real world experience with serialization; vendor growth
Acsis polls industry sentiment; TraceLink touts doubling of revenue
New consulting resources for contract management, incentive compensation and regulatory
TGaS Advisors expands its roster of services
Vaccines manufacturers wrestle with public health policy
Good growth is occurring in the vaccine business, despite the hurdles of public perceptions and public-health funding shortfalls
The impact of the anti-vaccination lobby