Ensuring a Change for the Better Posts
Globally, commercial goods, pharmaceutical, biomedical/biologics including commercial and military aerospace industries all experience product infiltration with unknown, non-genuine, stylish imitation, countless after-market knock-offs. Within t...
Fighting the Battle against Drug Counterfeiting; How Document Automation Can Assist
Published: 2012-08-29
Published: 2012-08-29
Today’s supply chain companies demand a near perfect order record to reduce the cost of labor, transportation and errors within their distribution centers. We interviewed Tom Napier from PSI Engineering, which provides tailored products to...
It is pretty amazing how, with only one strike, the pharmacy logistics of an entire country knocked out all the reimbursement schemes and it took two years to understand the problem and try to fix it to some extent. I was so fascinated by this m...
The Portuguese university degrees are among the best in the world and the pharmaceutical sciences one is probably the best; upon graduating we are ready to work in the industry, pharmacy, hospital, labs, and so on, and that is why recruiters com...
In times of global recession pharma industry was not immune to the direct and indirect effects of the economic crisis.
It is not just about dry pipelines and skyrocketing R&D costs; it is also about the profound changes in glo...
A paradigm is the conceptual framework upon which we build our world; it is built upon past experiences; if we are not willing to make shifts in our paradigms, we will remain stagnate in our growth; a paradigm shift is a change from one way of t...
In spite of all the scientific and technology advances, the 21st century generation may be the first generation to not outlive their parents.
Obesity has reached epidemic proportions globally, with...
Medical device growth is outpacing pharma industry. Europe accounts for about 30% of world revenues for medical equipment, the regulations for translation of medical devices in the EU affect a large portion of global device distribution; there a...
There is a time and the time is now and is right for me… (1)
Welcome to the age of personalized medicine. With the mapping of the entire human genome, completed in 2003, many doors were unlocked and one of them was personal...
Economies of scale come in many flavors. Including the oddity flavor where the number of manufactured products decreases and the size of markets shrink.
Orphan drugs are economies of scale’ oddity flavor – a smaller ma...
Marketing exclusivity in EU and U.S.A provided a monopolistic market for orphan drugs without “me-too”/generics competitors, to pharma companies.
Orphan drug laws and the pharma industry made great contributions toward...
"I do believe Marsellus Wallace, my husband, your boss, told you to take ME out and do WHATEVER I WANTED. Now I wanna dance, I wanna win. I want that trophy, so dance good". Mia Wallace, Pulp Fiction (1994)
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What were the odds that the drug makers would roll the dice and have not only a financial mega hit but in Mergers & Acquisitions and Offshore-Production two “star is born “stories in a single show? The whole world is movi...
Globalisation’s growth and prevalence of the pharmaceutical market, calls for proactive approaches to manage its risks, namely the size and complexity of value chains and the increased labour market competition. In the networked econo...
While Change Control (CC) is applied to the entire chain of events in any pharma industry, from R&D to batch release, it is the core function of any pharmaceutical plant.
“Even when a change is made to improve product or...
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The world’s most highly regulated industry seems doomed to “forward retreat” tiptoeing into Social media. Why? The reason lies on social media’s...
