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Treating the Indonesian Diabetes Pandemic: A Case Study from Novo Nordisk
Health: Danish pharmaceutical company Novo Nordisk has released a new case study that examines the challenges for diabetes care in Indonesia. The study refle
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Big Pharma Improves Access to Medicine in Developing World
Health: The Access to Medicine Foundation has released its 2012 Access to Medic Index (ATM Index). The ATM Index is designed to provide independent, unbiased
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Novo Nordisk Wins Best Sustainability Performance at 2012 Social Innovation Awards
Sustainable Finance: The Danish healthcare firm continues its march to sustainability, collecting another honor along the way Justmeans hosted the 2012 Social Innovation
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Pharmaceutical Data-Mining, Health Care Privacy and "Free" Speech: Sorrell vs. IMS Health
Health: Today the US Supreme Court is due to hear arguments in Sorrell vs. IMS Health, a pharmaceutical data-mining case that has potentially far reaching im
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Modern Drug Marketing: An Unsustainable Model
Health: Cymbalta. Abilify. Lunesta, Chantix and that drug for "when the time might be right." As a consumer and especially as a psychologist, it unsettles me
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Walmart's $4 Generic Drug Pricing: Rx for $6 Billion in Savings?
Health: Wal-Mart triggered an industry "race to the bottom" in terms of generic drug pricing when it introduced its program to charge $4 for a 30-day supply
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After More Than 50 Years, A New Lupus Drug
Health: The FDA has approved a new drug for lupus called Benylsta. The drug is the first drug ever approved developed by Human Genome Sciences, and it will b
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Danger from Dietary Supplements: The Strange Tale of Hydroxycut
Health: Two years ago the then-best selling weight loss supplement Hydroxycut was pulled from the market after being linked to 23 cases of liver damage and o
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Comedy of Social Media Errors: Pharma's Lame Take on Glee
Health: With nearly 600 million people on Facebook, 175 million on Twitter, and 75 percent of the worlds 2 billion internet users accessing social media of s
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Pharma Cash Cows Out to Pasture
Health: This year, the patents of several popular drugs will end, allowing a cheaper, generic version to be available to the public. That is fantastic news f
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Drug Development Cost: Does the $1 Billion Pill Actually Cost $50 Million?
Health: While surveys find that the public generally holds pharmaceutical manufacturers in low esteem--trusting them about as much as the oil and tobacco ind
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Use Mhealth and Personal Health Records to Reduce Adverse Drug Events, Harms, and Costs
Health: New research from Vancouver, published this month in the Annals of Emergency Medicine, underscores the complexities, costs and harms of managing pres
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Is Data Secrecy a Prescription for Health, Wealth and Innovation?
Health: In the US Pharmaceutical manufacturers currently receive a five-year exclusivity period for the clinical trial data they submit for a successful new
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Twitter, Facebook & Pharma: heeding health buzz is better business
Health: We recently wrote that "Pharma tweets but lacks social media values," then proposed the idea that Twitter might actually provide better post-market s
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Twitter vs. FDA for health and patient safety
Health: Governments general inability to adequately regulate drug safety raises the need for private and perhaps crowdsourced solutions to monitor drug-and p
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Pharma tweets, but lacks social media values
Health: As a general statement its probably fair to say that people value health care. And that they trust that access to medications is an important part of
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Smart health care=Innovation
Health: Basic sciences are increasingly being applied in innovative ways to address some fundamental health care problems. Applied chemistry has combined par
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Health funding to support drug innovation
Health: As health care struggles with the growing problem of antibiotic resistant infections, public health officials worry about the lack of innovation on t
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Social media and the "black box" of health industry relations
Health: If its true in our social media age that "your brand is now the sum of conversations about it," as Marcel Labrun of Radian6 asserts, then pharmaceuti
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Social value of health marketing: CSR opportunity or pitfall?
Health: A new review in the open access health publication PLoS Medicine has concluded what many folks have long taken fro granted, but many doctors have esc
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