May/05/2007 08:29 Filed in:
Pharma
Business
I had a chance
this week to go back into the New York Times
archives and research the complete stories on
Lilly's Zyprexa. Since I worked at Lilly and was
aware of the stringent regulatory environment I
was trying to understand how this could happen,
but after listening to a number of people within
the industry the question became "I am surprised
this doesn't happen a lot more". It's only a
matter of time before another product gets called
under the microscope only to find that mistakes
were made along the way....mistakes that could
endanger patients health.
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May/01/2007 09:40 Filed in:
Pharma
Business
It was
disturbing to learn this week, according to John
Mack's survey, that BLOGS critical of the
pharmaceutical industry are viewed more credible
than BLOGS supportive of the industry. There's a
lot wrong with the pharmaceutical industry from
DTC marketing to CEO's who are so anxious to
please Wall Street that the lose site of what we
should be all about but unless you have worked in
the pharma industry there is no way that you can
sit on the fence and point fingers at people
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Mar/31/2007 08:14 Filed in:
Pharma
Business
There is a very
interesting article in this months
Wired
Magazine. The cover
story is "Get Naked and Rule The World" and it
makes some really great points about corporate
transparency in today's wired world where
secrets are more increasingly coming out into
the open. Should pharma embrace this
philosophy and what are the potential
ramifications for the industry and patients.
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