This is a selection of articles from the February 2008 archive. Click here for this month's Pharma Commentators headlines.
FDA Approves Wyeth’s Pristiq For Depression
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Source: Pharmalot - February 29, 2008 Authors: Ed Silverman Tags: Uncategorized Effexor Pristiq Wyeth Source Type: journals
Forgetting The Rules? Wyeth, Elan & Alzheimer’s
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Source: Pharmalot - February 29, 2008 Authors: Ed Silverman Tags: Uncategorized Alzheimers Bapineuzumab Elan Wyeth Source Type: journals
Former Wyeth Employees File False Claims Suit
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Source: Pharmalot - February 29, 2008 Authors: Ed Silverman Tags: Uncategorized Anthony Sokol False Claims Mark Livingston Prevnar Whistleblower Wyeth Source Type: journals
Click Here: TV Drug Ads And Side Effect Reports
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Source: Pharmalot - February 29, 2008 Authors: Ed Silverman Tags: Uncategorized Adverse Events Consumers Union Drug Safety DTC Ads DTC Advertising Television Advertising Source Type: journals
Informed Consent Bill On Psychotropics Back In NJ
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Source: Pharmalot - February 29, 2008 Authors: Ed Silverman Tags: Uncategorized Antidepressants Antipsychotics Black Box Warning Informed Consent New Jersey Psychotropics Source Type: journals
Former FDA Commish Argues Against Preemption
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Source: Pharmalot - February 29, 2008 Authors: Ed Silverman Tags: Uncategorized David Kessler David Vladeck Preemption Source Type: journals
AstraZeneca Wants Seroquel Used For Depression
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Source: Pharmalot - February 29, 2008 Authors: Ed Silverman Tags: Uncategorized Antipsychotics AstraZeneca Depression Seroquel Source Type: journals
Purdue Settlement Used To Repair Its Image?
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Source: Pharmalot - February 29, 2008 Authors: Ed Silverman Tags: Uncategorized OxyContin Purdue Pharma Source Type: journals
Uproar In Thailand Over Transferred FDA Official
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Source: Pharmalot - February 29, 2008 Authors: Ed Silverman Tags: Uncategorized Chaiya Sasomsub Compulsory Licensing Patents Siriwat Tiptaradol Thailand Source Type: journals
Up And Down The Ladder… Job Changes
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Source: Pharmalot - February 29, 2008 Authors: Ed Silverman Tags: Uncategorized Akrimax Pharmaceuticals Cook Pharmica DSM Pharmaceuticals Encorium Group Genta Mylan Laboratories Pharmacopeia United BioSource Wyeth Source Type: journals
Medical Colleges And Universities Are Urged To Adopt New Guidelines On Conflicts Of Interest
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Source: Pharmalot - February 28, 2008 Authors: Ed Silverman Tags: Uncategorized Association of American Medical Colleges Association of American Universities Conflicts of Interest Source Type: journals
Judge Bars Roche From Selling Anemia Drug
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Source: Pharmalot - February 28, 2008 Authors: Ed Silverman Tags: Uncategorized Amgen Aransep Micera Patents Roche Source Type: journals
HHS Secretary Maneuvers To Avoid Contempt
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Source: Pharmalot - February 28, 2008 Authors: Ed Silverman Tags: Uncategorized Andrew von Eschenbach Ketek Michael Levitt Sanofi Aventis Source Type: journals
Headaches: An Aspirin A Day Won’t Help Bayer
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Source: Pharmalot - February 28, 2008 Authors: Ed Silverman Tags: Uncategorized Bayer Kogenate Nexavar Trasylol Source Type: journals
Throw Away Those Bibs! Help is at Hand for Infants with GERD
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Source: On Pharma - February 28, 2008 Authors: pharmamanufacturing Tags: cGxP's, FDA and Regulatory Issues The Pharma Industry Disease Mongering and E.D. AstraZeneca Source Type: journals
Those Marketing Dollars Get Spent Very Early
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Source: Pharmalot - February 28, 2008 Authors: Ed Silverman Tags: Uncategorized Clinical Trial Design Clinical Trials Marketing Source Type: journals
Pfizer’s Kindler Is Third Choice For Tufts Award
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Source: Pharmalot - February 28, 2008 Authors: Ed Silverman Tags: Uncategorized Jeff Kindler Pfizer Tufts University Source Type: journals
Lullabye & Good Night: FDA Rejects New Zyprexa
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Source: Pharmalot - February 28, 2008 Authors: Ed Silverman Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: journals
Lilly Faces First State Zyprexa Trial
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Source: Pharmalot - February 28, 2008 Authors: Ed Silverman Tags: Uncategorized Eli Lilly Off Label Marketing Zyprexa Source Type: journals
Pfizer Shifts Tests To South Korea From Japan
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Source: Pharmalot - February 28, 2008 Authors: Ed Silverman Tags: Uncategorized Clinical Trials GlaxoSmithKline Japan Novartis Pfizer South Korea Source Type: journals
A Place For McCain To Chat About Reimportation
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Source: Pharmalot - February 27, 2008 Authors: Ed Silverman Tags: Uncategorized Canada eDrugSearch John McCain Reimportation Source Type: journals
Biogen’s Tysabri Linked To Liver Damage
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Source: Pharmalot - February 27, 2008 Authors: Ed Silverman Tags: Uncategorized Biogen Idec Elan Tysabri Source Type: journals
Animal-Rights Groups Target Continental Europe
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Source: Pharmalot - February 27, 2008 Authors: Ed Silverman Tags: Uncategorized Animal Rights Novartis Source Type: journals
Congress: No Hearing On Lucentis Pricing
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Source: Pharmalot - February 27, 2008 Authors: Ed Silverman Tags: Uncategorized Avastin Genentech Lucentis Source Type: journals
Schering-Plough Slashes Jobs After Organon Deal
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Source: Pharmalot - February 27, 2008 Authors: Ed Silverman Tags: Uncategorized jobs Layoffs Organon Biosciences Schering Plough Source Type: journals
Will More DTC Ads Be Pulled? Bob Ehrlich Explains
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Source: Pharmalot - February 27, 2008 Authors: Ed Silverman Tags: Uncategorized Bob Ehrlich DTC Ads DTC Advertising DTC Perspectives Lipitor Merck Pfizer Robert Jarvik Schering Plough Vytorin Source Type: journals
Kiosks In A Doc’s Office Are Okay, Sometimes
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Source: Pharmalot - February 27, 2008 Authors: Ed Silverman Tags: Uncategorized Disease States Kickbacks Kiosks Source Type: journals
FDA’s Andy von Eschenbach: In His Own Words
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Source: Pharmalot - February 27, 2008 Authors: Ed Silverman Tags: Uncategorized Andrew von Eschenbach Drug Safety Source Type: journals
Forget Antidepressants: UK Trains More Therapists
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Source: Pharmalot - February 27, 2008 Authors: Ed Silverman Tags: Uncategorized Antidepressants NICE Psychological Counseling SSRIs Therapy Source Type: journals
AstraZeneca Drug Fails Lung Cancer Trial
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Source: Pharmalot - February 27, 2008 Authors: Ed Silverman Tags: Uncategorized AstraZeneca Lung Cancer Recentin Source Type: journals
Pharmalot… Pharmalittle… Good Morning
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Source: Pharmalot - February 27, 2008 Authors: Ed Silverman Tags: Uncategorized Lipitor Merck Novartis Pfizer Robert Jarvik Shasun Chemicals Vericore Source Type: journals
When It Comes To Meds, China Says Buyer Beware
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Source: Pharmalot - February 27, 2008 Authors: Ed Silverman Tags: Uncategorized Baxter International China Heparin Source Type: journals
Barr Pays $6M To States For Generic Payoff
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Source: Pharmalot - February 26, 2008 Authors: Ed Silverman Tags: Uncategorized Barr Laboratories Barr Pharmaceuticals Pay-To-Delay Warner-Chilcott Source Type: journals
Lawyer For Provenge Activists Sanctioned By Judge
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Source: Pharmalot - February 26, 2008 Authors: Ed Silverman Tags: Uncategorized Dendreon Kerry Donahue Prostate Cancer Provenge Richard Pazdur The Cancer Letter Source Type: journals
The New FDA Motto: Safety First
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Source: Pharmalot - February 26, 2008 Authors: Ed Silverman Tags: Uncategorized Andrew von Eschenbach FDA Source Type: journals
Thailand’s Chief Pharma Negotiator Is Silenced
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Source: Pharmalot - February 26, 2008 Authors: Ed Silverman Tags: Uncategorized Compulsory Licensing Patents Thailand Source Type: journals
BCA’s Brenner: Why Avastin Changes FDA Standards
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Source: Pharmalot - February 26, 2008 Authors: Ed Silverman Tags: Uncategorized Avastin Breast Cancer Action Genentech Source Type: journals
Cox-2 Drugs: Less CV Risk Than Other NSAIDs?
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Source: Pharmalot - February 26, 2008 Authors: Ed Silverman Tags: Uncategorized Bextra Celebrex Charles Hennekens Cox-2 Inhibitors Merck NSAIDs Pfizer Vioxx Source Type: journals
The Big Spenders: Tracking The Lobbying Dollars
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Source: Pharmalot - February 26, 2008 Authors: Ed Silverman Tags: Uncategorized Lobbying Roche Source Type: journals
US Patent Office Rejects Key Genentech Patent
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Source: Pharmalot - February 26, 2008 Authors: Ed Silverman Tags: Uncategorized Genentech MedImmune Patents Source Type: journals
Vasella To Shareholders: I’m A Cheap Date
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Source: Pharmalot - February 26, 2008 Authors: Ed Silverman Tags: Uncategorized CEO Dan Vasella Novartis Succession Source Type: journals
Annuale: For The Once-A-Year Period
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Source: Pharmalot - February 26, 2008 Authors: Ed Silverman Tags: Uncategorized Annuale Source Type: journals
Varied Genes Means Finely Tuned Drugs: Study
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Source: Pharmalot - February 26, 2008 Authors: Ed Silverman Tags: Uncategorized 454 Life Sciences Cancer DNA Genes Roche Source Type: journals
Pharmalot… Pharmalittle… Good Morning
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Source: Pharmalot - February 26, 2008 Authors: Ed Silverman Tags: Uncategorized Antidepressants AstraZeneca Bipolar Disorder GPC Biotech Ireland Theravance Walgreen's Source Type: journals
FDA’s Von Eschenbach to Meet the Press
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Source: On Pharma - February 25, 2008 Authors: pharmamanufacturing Tags: cGxP's, FDA and Regulatory Issues Source Type: journals
Lite Thru and A New Twist on Raman
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Source: On Pharma - February 25, 2008 Authors: pharmamanufacturing Tags: Pharmaceutical Process Analytical Technologies Source Type: journals
Josh Sommer, Hero
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Source: On Pharma - February 25, 2008 Authors: pharmamanufacturing Tags: New Drug Pipeline and R&D medical research Source Type: journals
Are Antidepressants Useless? Researchers Say Yes
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Source: Pharmalot - February 25, 2008 Authors: Ed Silverman Tags: Uncategorized Antidepressants Effexor Prozac Wyeth Source Type: journals
Wyeth & Pfizer Lose HRT Breast Cancer Case
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Source: Pharmalot - February 25, 2008 Authors: Ed Silverman Tags: Uncategorized Pfizer Pharmacia & Upjohn Premarin Prempro Provera Wyeth Source Type: journals
Polly Want A Prozac? Depressed Pets Get Meds
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Source: Pharmalot - February 25, 2008 Authors: Ed Silverman Tags: Uncategorized Dogs Eli Lilly Parrots Pets Prozac Reconcile Romain Pizzi Source Type: journals
NJ Legislator: Probe Antipsychotics, Kids & Medicaid
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Source: Pharmalot - February 25, 2008 Authors: Ed Silverman Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: journals
Pristiq Mystique: Will FDA Approve Wyeth Drug?
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Source: Pharmalot - February 25, 2008 Authors: Ed Silverman Tags: Uncategorized Effexor Pristiq Wyeth Source Type: journals
Supreme Court Will Hear Preemption Case Today
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Source: Pharmalot - February 25, 2008 Authors: Ed Silverman Tags: Uncategorized Diana Levine Medtronic Michigan Pfizer Phenergan Preemption Rezulin US Supreme Court Warner Lambert Wyeth Source Type: journals
FTC Commish Vows To Fight ‘Pay-For-Delay’ Deals
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Source: Pharmalot - February 25, 2008 Authors: Ed Silverman Tags: Uncategorized Cephalon Federal Trade Commission Generics Hatch-Waxman Act Patents Pay-For-Delay Provigil Source Type: journals
UK Watchdog To Probe Roche Over Xenical Sales
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Source: Pharmalot - February 25, 2008 Authors: Ed Silverman Tags: Uncategorized Roche Ryta Kuzel Xenical Source Type: journals
Pharmalot… Pharmalittle… Good Morning
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Source: Pharmalot - February 25, 2008 Authors: Ed Silverman Tags: Uncategorized Antipsychotics Chantix Diabetes Eli Lilly Eucreas European Union Galvus Massachusetts Merck Novartis Pfizer Schizophrenia Suicide Source Type: journals
FDA Approves Avastin For Breast Cancer
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Source: Pharmalot - February 22, 2008 Authors: Ed Silverman Tags: Uncategorized Avastin Breast Cancer Genentech Source Type: journals
Leavitt Tells Congress FDA Needs More Authority
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Source: Pharmalot - February 22, 2008 Authors: Ed Silverman Tags: Uncategorized China Michael Leavitt Source Type: journals
Generic Growth Slowed To 3.8 Percent In 2007
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Source: Pharmalot - February 22, 2008 Authors: Ed Silverman Tags: Uncategorized At Risk Launches Generics Source Type: journals
Medco’s CEO: I Like Those Democratic Proposals
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Source: Pharmalot - February 22, 2008 Authors: Ed Silverman Tags: Uncategorized Biogenerics David Snow Medco Health Solutions Medicare Part D Source Type: journals
Montana Sues Drugmakers Over Antipsychotic Meds
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Source: Pharmalot - February 22, 2008 Authors: Ed Silverman Tags: Uncategorized Arksansas AstraZeneca Janssen Johnson & Johnson Montana Risperdal Seroquel Source Type: journals
Pfizer Seeks Confidential Medical Journal Files
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Source: Pharmalot - February 22, 2008 Authors: Ed Silverman Tags: Uncategorized Bextra Celebrex Medical Journals New England Journal of Medicine Pfizer Science Source Type: journals
In Australia, Pharma Sponsors ‘Independent’ CME
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Source: Pharmalot - February 22, 2008 Authors: Ed Silverman Tags: Uncategorized Australia British Medical Journal CME Physician Education Source Type: journals
Up And Down The Ladder… Job Changes
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Source: Pharmalot - February 22, 2008 Authors: Ed Silverman Tags: Uncategorized AstraZeneca Eli Lilly Novo Nordisk Shasun Chemicals & Drugs WeissComm Partners Wyeth Source Type: journals
AstraZeneca To Pay Alabama $215M For Fraud
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Source: Pharmalot - February 21, 2008 Authors: Ed Silverman Tags: Uncategorized AstraZeneca Medicaid Source Type: journals
Congress Eyes Emergency Bill For FDA Inspections
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Source: Pharmalot - February 21, 2008 Authors: Ed Silverman Tags: Uncategorized China FDA Inspections Heparin Source Type: journals
Baxter Didn’t Know Heparin Plant Wasn’t Inspected
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Source: Pharmalot - February 21, 2008 Authors: Ed Silverman Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: journals
Pharma Spent $22M To Lobby Washington In ‘07
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Source: Pharmalot - February 21, 2008 Authors: Ed Silverman Tags: Uncategorized Lobbying Phrma Source Type: journals
India To Consider Issuing Compulsory Licenses
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Source: Pharmalot - February 21, 2008 Authors: Ed Silverman Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: journals
Preemption Aftermath: A Matter Of Trust
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Source: Pharmalot - February 21, 2008 Authors: Ed Silverman Tags: Uncategorized Medtronic Preemption Wyeth Source Type: journals
Drug Wholesale Prices Rose 7.82 Percent In ‘07
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Source: Pharmalot - February 21, 2008 Authors: Ed Silverman Tags: Uncategorized Drug Prices Inflation Medicare Part D Wholesale Prices Source Type: journals
Bayer’s Trayslol Raises Risk Of Death: Studies
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Source: Pharmalot - February 21, 2008 Authors: Ed Silverman Tags: Uncategorized Bayer Trasylol Source Type: journals
J&J Loses Bid To Dismiss Whistleblower Suit
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Source: Pharmalot - February 20, 2008 Authors: Ed Silverman Tags: Uncategorized Ed West Johnson & Johnson Levaquin Ortho Biotech Whistleblower Source Type: journals
Activists Deride Pharma For Threatening Thailand