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Pharma industry's place in national healthcare-cost trends could continue to shrink

Business unit will mine databases from partners to provide value-based pricing consulting, among other services

4th Channel brings pharma messaging to hundreds of electronic health-record systems

$25-billion merger creates a specialty company with a large generic base, and could presage more merger realignments

Goal is to improve security of drug imports while expediting customs clearances

Online community will be a 'fifth generation' offering when built out, using OneKey database

Action follows the Cardinal-CVS and AmerisourceBergen-Walgreens pairings

Polar Speed offers active, temperature-controlled shipping, for pharma trading partners and direct-to-patient

Product lines and brands multiply in the Pelican biopharma portfolio

3D or bioprinted organs may be years away, but 'liver strips' are now shipping for drug toxicity testing in the lab

Adverse Events, Inc., finds a receptive client base among managed-care providers

Bondholder sale brings McKesson its desired >75% ownership of the European wholesaler

New-media venture could challenge existing pharmacy benefit-verification processes for specialties

Facility will produce both biologics and small molecules

Five-year, $230-million effort targets diseases through public-private partnership

Reorganization is hoped to raise profile of company's contract-sales, patient-support and related services

Company's integration of Medco is 'largely complete'

Risk in other parts of the world remain higher and may be rising

Developer Napo Pharma/Jaguar Animal Health sees parallels in human and animal therapies

Walgreens' Pharma Dynamics subsidiary will be merged into CareMetx

HDMA's 2013-14 Factbook updates member financial, operational performance

New KoolTemp GTS parcels have higher performance and lower cost and weight

An inaugural planning meeting was held in November; meanwhile China cracks down on online sales

New 'emergent biopharma' service combines compliance with pricing, market access

J&J is the far-and-away leader in the IMS Health Social Media Engagement Index