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Second annual ranking drops J&J to second place, but the company still leads among pharma mfrs

Acquisition strengthens Cardinal’s presence among independent pharmacies

More pieces for industry-wide track-and-trace are falling into place, but there’s no rush to authenticate products

New device links healthcare providers to patients for reminder notifications

Storing e-pedigree data on the tag is a giveaway added value for users

Kantar Health expands its epidemiology databases to emerging markets, including Turkey and Mexico

As hundreds of candidate drugs receive official “orphan” status, the Orphan Drug Act gets re-examined. Meanwhile, these drugs are driving the growth of specialty pharmacy

How Contract Manufacturers Can Help Pharma Through The Era of Divestiture

Record numbers of attendees and exhibitors came together at Philadelphia meeting

Drivers in the post-healthcare-reform world

The Navippro database, plus some artful online monitoring, could provide outcomes research—of a sort—for drug abuse

International efforts to standardize guidelines for observational research could move the entire field forward

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

Even while cutting the costs of recalls and returns, providers offer new marketing tools to industry

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