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Group brings together Nosco, Cognex, Acsis and Omega Design, and will support GS1 standards

New 3PL will add a second facility by year-end; stresses the economies of consolidated shipping

NSDUH survey shows prescription drug abuse rose by 13%, to 7.0 million individuals

Advisory panel recommends “signal monitoring” to anticipate potential risks

Service will enable first-pass or competitive-intelligence estimating of production costs for active pharmaceutical ingredients based on patent literature

Envirotainer and Lufthansa Cargo offer LD9 units for carrying up to four pallets of product

Senator Michael Bennet wants better FDA oversight of drug supply chain and material sourcing, as survey shows that 36% of Americans likely to vote have heard of unsafe ingredients

Acquisition boosts Medco’s ability to develop evidence-based medicine

As IT vendors leap into cloud computing, clients in life sciences struggle to keep the data flowing through the organizations

Research group finds ‘bad practices’ in current implementations as market grows to $8.5 billion

Deloitte survey finds life sciences companies are consolidating some functions, whether in-house or outsourced

HealthPrize Technologies is readying a sweepstakes approach to encourage patient compliance

By running Commercial Operations like a stand-alone business, executives can sharpen their focus on strategy, tactics and overall performance

By combining online with traditional direct-marketing media, manufacturers can accelerate sampling programs even in the face of restricted physician access

A biopharma marketer uses direct mail and a call center to access hard-to-reach physicians

The 2010 PDMA Sharing Conference: Expanding Our Focus With More Learning Opportunities

Just as the pharma industry is feeling price and margin pressure, so are wholesalers in today’s healthcare marketplace

Both promise and peril exist for drugmakers in working with diagnostic tests to commercialize new medications or refine the applicability of existing ones

A Process-Based Assessment (PBA) is the first step to analyzing reporting needs

Almost three-quarters of physicians have experienced a 'cold chain break' in drugs they've prescribed; less than a third are 'very confident' that the cold chain is being properly managed

New TSA rules mandate inspection of cargo carried on passenger aircraft; manufacturers and others get ‘Certified Cargo Shipping Facility’ status

Will manage ProVision's cyclotron in Tennessee

QPharma’s qSpend IT service provides on-demand access for reporting payments to healthcare practitioners; meanwhile, Cegedim-Dendrite strikes deals with system integrators

Research group finds ‘bad practices’ in current implementations as market grows to $8.5 billion