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Student Pharmacists to Receive National Community Engaged Service Award American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy (AACP)

AACP Student Community Engaged Service Award will be awarded to four outstanding student-led community engagement programs delivering consumer education about medication use. These programs have been proven to expand access to affordable healthcare and dramatically improve the public’s health. Teams from the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, University of California, San Francisco, Creighton University and [...]

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KLE University’s College of Pharmacy conducts National Pharmacy Week

KLE University’s College of Pharmacy, Belgaum had chalked out a plan to create an awareness about the role of a pharmacist as a healthcare professional. This was in accordance with this year’s National Pharmacy Week theme “Pharmacist — a healthcare professional” which was observed between Nov 21 to 26, 2011. During the week-long celebrations, the Indian [...]

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Culprits of Biotech’s Malaise: Let’s Also Look in the Mirror

Malaise and despair seem to have taken over the biotech venture and startup community of late. “Venture’s stress” is the cover story of BioCentury. Biotech VCs are so distraught they are taking the case to Washington DC to lament the fate of our industry. Venture funds focused on life sciences have struggled to raise money, and several [...]

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FDA approves first diabetes-cholesterol combo pill

TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — The first combination pill for the millions of people with the dangerous combination of diabetes and high cholesterol won U.S. approval Friday, offering convenience — and savings — to patients taking multiple pills.Juvisync, a probable blockbuster developed by Merck & Co. Inc., will be launched in a few weeks. It combines [...]

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UPDATE 2-Amgen signals R&D changes to employees

Employees are told changes are under evaluation * Aims to improve focus, reallocate resources Oct 12 (Reuters) – Amgen Inc , the world’s largest biotechnology company, has told its research and development staff it is evaluating changes in its R&D programs, a company spokeswoman said on Wednesday. The company told employees the changes would be aimed at improving [...]

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Study: Orphan drugs win favored status in FDA reviews

Over the last few years there’s been a big increase in Big Pharma’s interest in rare diseases. With Genzyme’s success with drugs like Myozyme helping light the way, giants like GlaxoSmithKline, Pfizer, Merck and Novartis have been organizing their own rare disease drug shops. And the FDA’s more flexible attitude in how it judges the data from [...]

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Why Contract Research Organizations Are So Hot

With more drugmakers outsourcing more trials to contract research organizations, few should be surprised that the CRO sector is generating investor interest. The attention-grabbing deal announced this week in which two private equity firms – Carlyle Group and Hellman & Friedman – agreed to pay $3.9 billion in cash to buy Pharmaceutical Product Development is [...]

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Lipitor – Why There Will Never Be Another Drug Like Lipitor

Today, the U.S. patent expires on the Pfizer’s Lipitor, the best-selling drug of all time. The first generic versions will go for sale, marking the end of a brand that has dominated the drug industry, lowered the cholesterol of tens of millions of patients, and generated more in annual sales than Major League Baseball or [...]

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Pfizer’s Lipitor: How Big Pharma Blocks Reimbursement Of Generics

Pfizer, Lipitor, Pharma Blocks, Generics Good news! You learn that today, November 30, 2011, a generic version of Lipitor® is going on sale for the first time. You have been using Lipitor® as an adjunct to your diet to reduce your cholesterol, So you run down to the pharmacy and ask to have the generic atorvastatin, [...]

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Ranbaxy’s Lipitor Generic Approved by U.S. FDA, Threatening Pfizer Sales

Ranbaxy, Lipitor Generic, FDA, Pfizer, Pfizer Sales Ranbaxy Laboratories Ltd. (RBXY)’s copy of the $10.7 billion Lipitor cholesterol pill was released in the U.S., sending its share up the most in six months and threatening sales for Pfizer Inc. (PFE) Ranbaxy, India’s biggest drugmaker, won approval to sell generic versions of the world’s top-selling medicine by the [...]

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