This is a selection of articles from the March 2008 archive. Click here for this month's Pharma Commentators headlines.
Secret Vytorin E-Mails Show Kastelein’s Fury
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Source: Pharmalot - March 31, 2008 Authors: Ed Silverman Tags: Featured Uncategorized American College of Cardiology Enhance John Kastelein Merck Schering Plough Vytorin Zetia Zocor Source Type: journals
French Docs ‘Wasted’ $1.6B Under Rep Pressure
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Source: Pharmalot - March 31, 2008 Authors: Ed Silverman Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: journals
The Provenge Anniversary: Roses For Andy
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Source: Pharmalot - March 31, 2008 Authors: Ed Silverman Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: journals
Who Does The Best ePromotion To Docs?
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Source: Pharmalot - March 31, 2008 Authors: Ed Silverman Tags: Uncategorized ePromotion Internet Marketing Merck Verispan Source Type: journals
Psychiatrists Back Industry Sponsorship At Events
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Source: Pharmalot - March 31, 2008 Authors: Ed Silverman Tags: Uncategorized Australia Ethics New Zealand Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatris Source Type: journals
Merck’s New Cholesterol Pill Has Mixed Results
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Source: Pharmalot - March 31, 2008 Authors: Ed Silverman Tags: Uncategorized Cordaptive Merck Source Type: journals
Lilly’s New CEO Walks To Work And Blogs
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Source: Pharmalot - March 31, 2008 Authors: Ed Silverman Tags: Uncategorized Eli Lilly John Lechleiter Sidney Taurel Zyprexa Source Type: journals
AstraZeneca Halts Crestor Trial Due To…
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Source: Pharmalot - March 31, 2008 Authors: Ed Silverman Tags: Uncategorized AstraZeneca Crestor Enhance Lipitor Merck Pfizer Schering Plough Vytorin Zocor Source Type: journals
Cholesterol Guidelines Corrupted In Japan?
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Source: Pharmalot - March 31, 2008 Authors: Ed Silverman Tags: Uncategorized Cholesterol Japan Source Type: journals
Indian Non-Profit Wants To Break Cancer Patents
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Source: Pharmalot - March 31, 2008 Authors: Ed Silverman Tags: Uncategorized Cancer Patients Aids Association Compulsory Licensing India Patents Source Type: journals
A Psychiatrist’s Unethical Drug Testing
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Source: Pharmalot - March 31, 2008 Authors: Ed Silverman Tags: Uncategorized Antipsychotics Clinical Trials Ethics Novartis Sanofi Aventis Tonmoy Sharma Source Type: journals
Enhance Doesn’t Enhance Our Knowledge Much
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Source: Pharmalot - March 30, 2008 Authors: Dr. Mark Zucker Tags: Uncategorized Enhance Merck Schering Plough Vytorin Zetia Zocor Source Type: journals
Ladies & Gentlemen: The Enhance Study & Slides
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Source: Pharmalot - March 30, 2008 Authors: Ed Silverman Tags: Uncategorized John Kastelein Merck Schering Plough Vytorin Zetia Zocor Source Type: journals
Increased Cancer Risk Associated with Treatment for Diabetic Leg and Foot Ulcers
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Source: PharmaWatchDog - March 29, 2008 Source Type: journals
Pharmaceuticals found in Drinking Water
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Source: PharmaWatchDog - March 29, 2008 Source Type: journals
Biovail Settles with SEC. Three Executives Still under Investigation.
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Source: PharmaWatchDog - March 29, 2008 Source Type: journals
Kohl Hearing Seeks Alternative to Drug Industry’s Controversial Practice of Educating Doctors about New Drugs
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Source: PharmaWatchDog - March 29, 2008 Source Type: journals
Dietary Supplements with Dangerous Ingredients
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Source: PharmaWatchDog - March 29, 2008 Source Type: journals
Prescription Drug Sales Growth Slows To Lowest Rate Since 1961
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Source: PharmaWatchDog - March 29, 2008 Source Type: journals
Graft use Associated with Increase Risk of Death
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Source: PharmaWatchDog - March 29, 2008 Source Type: journals
Members Call on the Science Board to Assess Resources Needed to Remedy FDA’s Funding Crisis
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Source: PharmaWatchDog - March 29, 2008 Source Type: journals
FDA to Force Medical Device Manufacturer Pay for Violating Law
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Source: PharmaWatchDog - March 29, 2008 Source Type: journals
Spiriva HandiHaler Associated with Possible Increase in Stroke
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Source: PharmaWatchDog - March 29, 2008 Source Type: journals
Dietary Supplement Associated with Severe Adverse Reactions
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Source: PharmaWatchDog - March 29, 2008 Source Type: journals
Lautenberg, Boxer Announce Hearing To Investigate Traces of Pharmaceutical Drugs Found In Drinking Water
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Source: PharmaWatchDog - March 29, 2008 Source Type: journals
Internet Drugs Falsely Claim to Prevent, Treat STDs
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Source: PharmaWatchDog - March 29, 2008 Source Type: journals
Bush’s Legacy
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Source: PharmaWatchDog - March 29, 2008 Source Type: journals
Panel Calls For Leadership To Protect Children From Targeted Marketing, Canada
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Source: PharmaWatchDog - March 29, 2008 Source Type: journals
Tamiflu associated with Changes in Behavior
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Source: PharmaWatchDog - March 29, 2008 Source Type: journals
The Clot Thickens: Lilly’s Prasugrel Performs Well
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Source: Pharmalot - March 29, 2008 Authors: Ed Silverman Tags: Uncategorized Blood Clots Bristol Myers Squibb Eli Lilly Plavix Prasugrel Sanofi Aventis Source Type: journals
Vytorin Follow-Up Trial Delayed ‘Til 2012
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Source: Pharmalot - March 28, 2008 Authors: Ed Silverman Tags: Uncategorized Enhance Improve-It Merck Schering Plough Vytorin Zetia Zocor Source Type: journals
Pfizer Exec Charged With Child Pornography
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Source: Pharmalot - March 28, 2008 Authors: Ed Silverman Tags: Uncategorized Alan Hesketh Child Pornography Pfizer Source Type: journals
FDA Criticizes Study On User Fees & Approvals
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Source: Pharmalot - March 28, 2008 Authors: Ed Silverman Tags: Uncategorized Doug Throckmorton FDA PDUFA Prescription Drug Fee & User Act Source Type: journals
Big Pension Fund To Fight Lilly Over Directors
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Source: Pharmalot - March 28, 2008 Authors: Ed Silverman Tags: Uncategorized California Employees' Pension Retirement System CALPERS Corporate Governance Eli Lilly Shareholder Rights Source Type: journals
The Vytorin Data At The ACC: No Smoking Gun?
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Source: Pharmalot - March 28, 2008 Authors: Ed Silverman Tags: Uncategorized Enhance John Kastelein Merck Schering Plough Vytorin Zetia Zocor Source Type: journals
Drugmakers Spend Lavishly On Docs Down Under
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Source: Pharmalot - March 28, 2008 Authors: Ed Silverman Tags: Uncategorized Australia Ethics Freebies Marketing Medicines Australia PharmaFree Source Type: journals
New Antipsychotics No Better For First Episodes
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Source: Pharmalot - March 28, 2008 Authors: Ed Silverman Tags: Uncategorized Abilify Antipsychotics AstraZeneca Ayptical Antipsychotics Geodon Pfizer Risperdal Sanofi Aventis Seroquel Zyprexa Source Type: journals
Up And Down The Ladder… Job Changes
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Source: Pharmalot - March 28, 2008 Authors: Ed Silverman Tags: Uncategorized BioMarin Pharmaceuticals Biovitrium Cornerstone BioPharma Depomed EKR Therapeutics MPM Capital Regeneron Takeda Xencor Zelos Therapeutics Source Type: journals
Death Of A Sales Team? Wyeth Cuts 1,200 Reps
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Source: Pharmalot - March 27, 2008 Authors: Ed Silverman Tags: Uncategorized jobs Sales Reps Wyeth Source Type: journals
Doc Who Tied Vaccine To Autism Takes The Stand
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Source: Pharmalot - March 27, 2008 Authors: Ed Silverman Tags: Uncategorized Andrew Wakefield Austism MMR Vaccines Source Type: journals
King’s Promotional Material Is A ‘Serious’ Violation
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Source: Pharmalot - March 27, 2008 Authors: Ed Silverman Tags: Uncategorized Avinza King Pharmaceuticals Source Type: journals
FDA Commish: The Agency ‘May Fail…Peril Exists’
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Source: Pharmalot - March 27, 2008 Authors: Ed Silverman Tags: Uncategorized Andrew von Eschenbach Bart Stupak Source Type: journals
The CFO Must Do More Than Count Beans
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Source: Pharmalot - March 27, 2008 Authors: Ed Silverman Tags: Uncategorized Chief Financial Officer Ernsty & Young Source Type: journals
In India, Drugmakers, Gifts & ‘The Poor Patient’
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Source: Pharmalot - March 27, 2008 Authors: Ed Silverman Tags: Uncategorized Ethics Freebies India Sales Reps Source Type: journals
Med Students And Their Pharma-Free Guide
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Source: Pharmalot - March 27, 2008 Authors: Ed Silverman Tags: Uncategorized American Medical Student Association Freebies Grand Rounds PharmaFree PharmedOut Sales Reps Source Type: journals
User Fees Increase Recalls And Warnings: Study
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Source: Pharmalot - March 26, 2008 Authors: Ed Silverman Tags: Uncategorized Black Box Warnings Drug Safety PDUFA Prescription Drug User Fee Act Source Type: journals
A Pill For Compulsive-Impulsive Spectrum Disorder?
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Source: Pharmalot - March 26, 2008 Authors: Ed Silverman Tags: Uncategorized Compulsive-Impulsive Spectrum Disorder Internet Addiction Jerald Block Source Type: journals
Lawmaker Asks NJ AG To Probe Antipsychotics
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Source: Pharmalot - March 26, 2008 Authors: Ed Silverman Tags: Uncategorized Anne Milgram Antipsychotics AstraZeneca Eli Lilly Johnson & Johnson New Jersey Pat Diegnan Source Type: journals
Are We Living In ‘The Age Of Depression?’
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Source: Pharmalot - March 26, 2008 Authors: Ed Silverman Tags: Uncategorized Antidepressants Depression Major Depressive Disorder Source Type: journals
Dig Deep: Those Free Samples May Cost You
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Source: Pharmalot - March 26, 2008 Authors: Ed Silverman Tags: Uncategorized Samples Source Type: journals
FDA’s Woodcock: ‘We Must Learn From Henry Ford’
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Source: Pharmalot - March 26, 2008 Authors: Ed Silverman Tags: Uncategorized Clincal Trials FDA Heparin Janet Woodcock Source Type: journals
Lilly To Pay $15M To Settle Alaska Zyprexa Suit
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Source: Pharmalot - March 26, 2008 Authors: Ed Silverman Tags: Uncategorized Alaska Antipsychotics Eli Lilly Zyprexa Source Type: journals
Fidolin: Obedience Through Chemistry
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Source: Pharmalot - March 25, 2008 Authors: Ed Silverman Tags: Uncategorized Dogs Fidolin Source Type: journals
Baxter And Heparin Liability: Foreseeable Risk
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Source: Pharmalot - March 25, 2008 Authors: Ed Silverman Tags: Uncategorized Baxter International China Counterfeit Counterfeiting Eric Turkewitz Heparin Source Type: journals
Glaxo’s Chief Medical Officer Is Leaving
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Source: Pharmalot - March 25, 2008 Authors: Ed Silverman Tags: Uncategorized Avandia GlaxoSmithKline Ronald Krall Source Type: journals
Can’t Count? IMS And Millenium Argue Over Data
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Source: Pharmalot - March 25, 2008 Authors: Ed Silverman Tags: Uncategorized ImpactRx IMS Health Millenium Pharmaceuticals Velcade Source Type: journals
In Alaska, Zyprexa Goes On Trial Twice
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Source: Pharmalot - March 25, 2008 Authors: Ed Silverman Tags: Uncategorized Alaska Antipsychotics Eli Lilly William Bigley Zyprexa Source Type: journals
Pharma Balks At California Law To Track Drugs
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Source: Pharmalot - March 25, 2008 Authors: Ed Silverman Tags: Uncategorized California Counterfeit Counterfeiting Electronic Pedigree Source Type: journals
For Merck’s Clark, The Bloom Is Off The Rose
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Source: Pharmalot - March 25, 2008 Authors: Ed Silverman Tags: Uncategorized Cordaptive Dick Clark Enhance Merck Nexium Vytorin Source Type: journals
Wyeth Whistleblower Loses Retaliation Lawsuit
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Source: Pharmalot - March 24, 2008 Authors: Ed Silverman Tags: Uncategorized Mark Livingston Prevnar Whistleblower Wyeth Source Type: journals
McKesson Faces Big Damages Over AWP Lawsuit
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Source: Pharmalot - March 24, 2008 Authors: Ed Silverman Tags: Uncategorized Average Wholesale Price AWP First Databank McKesson Source Type: journals
Are Your Lean Projects Lame?
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Source: On Pharma - March 24, 2008 Authors: pharmamanufacturing Tags: Lean, Six Sigma and Quality Improvement Source Type: journals
More on Vytorin - Confusion will be my epitaph
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Source: Scientific Misconduct Blog - March 24, 2008 Tags: Schering-Plough Rigmarole Merck Ezetimibe Source Type: journals
Health Canada Issues Draft Guidance For Biologics
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Source: Pharmalot - March 24, 2008 Authors: Ed Silverman Tags: Uncategorized Biogenerics Biologics Biosimilars Health Canada Source Type: journals
Has The Medical Affairs Department Left Marketing?
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Source: Pharmalot - March 24, 2008 Authors: Ed Silverman Tags: Uncategorized Compliance Cutting Edge Medical Affairs Source Type: journals
Support For AIDS Vaccine Falters
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Source: Pharmalot - March 24, 2008 Authors: Ed Silverman Tags: Uncategorized AIDS AIDS Healthcare Foundation AIDS Vaccines HIV International AIDS Vaccine Initiative Source Type: journals
From Vytorin To Whytorin? The Enhance Saga
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Source: Pharmalot - March 24, 2008 Authors: Ed Silverman Tags: Uncategorized Enhance Merck Schering Plough Vytorn Zetia Zocor Source Type: journals
Zyprexa Judge: FDA Can’t Police Safety Problems
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Source: Pharmalot - March 22, 2008 Authors: Ed Silverman Tags: Uncategorized Alaska Eli Lilly Preemption Zyprexa Source Type: journals
Pfizer On The Hook For Off-Label Generic Use
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Source: Pharmalot - March 22, 2008 Authors: Ed Silverman Tags: Uncategorized Gabapentin Neurontin Off Label Marketing Off Label Promotion Pfizer Warner Lambert Source Type: journals
Jere Beasley Made Alabama A ‘Judicial Hellhole’
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Source: Pharmalot - March 21, 2008 Authors: Ed Silverman Tags: Uncategorized AstraZeneca GlaxoSmithKline Jere Beasley Merck Novartis Tort Reform Vioxx Source Type: journals
Sticking Point: Vaccine Exemptions Stir Concern
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Source: Pharmalot - March 21, 2008 Authors: Ed Silverman Tags: Uncategorized Autism Vaccines Source Type: journals
Up And Down The Ladder… Job Changes
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Source: Pharmalot - March 21, 2008 Authors: Ed Silverman Tags: Uncategorized Bionovo Catalyst Forest Laboratories Maxygen Parexel Stenopsys Sygnis Pharma Zimmer Source Type: journals
Pharmalot… Pharmalittle… G’Morning, Everyone
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Source: Pharmalot - March 21, 2008 Authors: Ed Silverman Tags: Uncategorized Actis Pharmaceuticals AmerisourceBergen Heparin Lipitor Pfizer Roche UCB Source Type: journals
Pharmalot… Pharmalittle… Nosh Time
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