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News and discussion on topics affecting the world's drug manufacturing community

We’ve MovedApril 10 2007

This is the last post on this site. This blog has now officially migrated to our parent web site, so you’ll now find it, and all new postings, on http://www.pharmamanufacturing.com/onpharma/

CRADA Targets Drug Development Bottlenecks, Welcomes ParticipantsApril 10 2007

FDA and the California-based IT company, Conformia, have been at work for the past few years on a cooperative research and development agreement (CRADA) designed to analyze knowledge management within the drug industry and FDA, to pinpoint what is making drug development so costly.  Initial findings from the first phase of the CRADA, a blinded research study [...]

Pharma Sales Reps Suing for Overtime: $1 Billion Potentially at StakeApril 10 2007

Pharmaceutical Executive’s Beth Herskovits has just reported that tens of thousands of pharma sales reps across the country are suing their current and former employees for overtime and the equivalent of “time and a half. ” $1 billion in settlements could be at stake.  The old days immortalized by Jamie Reidy are apparently over, with reps saying [...]

One in Four Diagnoses of Depression is WrongApril 9 2007

The New York Times recently reported on research from a journal of psychiatry that one in four people who are diagnosed with “depression” are simply struggling with a very real “life problem,” rather than an organic mental condition.  I’d bet the numbers could even be higher. Here’s the article.

Are Drugs Contaminating Our Water Supplies?April 9 2007

The New York Times recently published an update on an important emerging risk that should be on more drug companies’ radar screens: evaluating the cumulative impacts of trace levels of pharmaceuticals in the municipal water supply. Click here to read.