WHO: Jeffrey Dierks, Senior Product Director, Endo Pharmaceuticals WHAT: “Adherence as part of a commercial strategy: How to create value through communication and co-ordination, leading to better relationships with patients” This presentation will include information that demonstrates how the analysis of real-life, in-office dialogue between patients and physicians is critical to revealing concrete and specific recommendations…

Do you know what your cancer drug is up to? Answering that question is not as simple as for medicines taken by well-defined patient groups, or principally for one disease. Yet among drug classes oncology treatments hold a unique position: A frightening disease of immense scientific interest, hundreds of pipeline drugs and nearly as many…

Generalized fears about taking medications are common among patients, according to a new study issued by Verilogue exploring the actual fears and concerns patients most frequently discuss in their doctors’ offices and how doctors respond to them. The review of 23,923 naturally occurring patient-doctor interactions across 14 specialties during the course of 18 months found…

The pharmaceutical sales force is undergoing a dra-matic evolution as the pharmaceutical industry shifts from pri-mary-care drugs to biotechnology and specialist medicines. To effectively promote this changing product mix, marketers must adapt their sales and marketing models. In particular, marketers need sales representatives with more clinical knowledge, patient focus, managed-care fluency, and understanding of territories.…

FDA is under new management. Margaret Hamburg, M.D., was sworn in to her position as FDA commissioner May 22, 2009, by Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius. Dr. Hamburg is an authority on global health,public health systems, infectious disease, bioterrorism, and emergency preparedness. She served as the Nuclear Threat Initiative’s founding VP for the…