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Twitter at 10: Prodigy or Problem Child?

A New Order in Healthcare Business Models

Making the Most of Management Consulting
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Biotech Financial and M&A Trends: Two Steps Forward, One Step Back
Peter Young examines the positive and negative drivers affecting the biotech industry — what happened on the M&A, IPO and financial fronts in 2015, and what can we expect this year?
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Armada's Annual Specialty Pharmacy Summit
The 2016 Armada Specialty Pharmacy Summit will return to Wynn & Encore Las Vegas on May 2-6, 2016. This annual event is the largest U.S. healthcare conference for specialty pharmacy. It welcomes thousands of attendees from pharmacy providers, pharma/biotech manufacturers, payers, drug wholesalers and many other specialty pharmacy stakeholder organizations. Attendees will gain an in-depth understanding of the many facets of specialty pharmacy from more than 125 renowned industry speakers.
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Patents
Is the UN Declaring War on Biopharmaceutical Patents?
Deep in the massive bureaucracy of the United Nations is an undertaking that appears to have been conceived and designed to be combative — and biopharma may be the target. Stephen Tepp reports
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How On-Dose Technologies are Changing Pharmaceutical Product Intelligence and Security
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Marketing
Meeting the Multi-Channel Marketing Challenge
Pharma is no stranger to multi-channel marketing, but, according to Panos Papakonstantinou, Novartis's Head, Digital Commercial, Europe, the industry still needs to perfect its approach to it
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Emerging Pharma Leaders
Pharm Exec’s Emerging Pharma Leaders 2016 — Nominate Now
Pharm Exec is looking for the fresh faces of pharma leadership. And we'd like your input. Tell us who you think should be included as one of our 2016 Emerging Pharma Leaders. These leaders are vital to the future of the industry, and you can help ensure they get the recognition they deserve. Fill out your nomination today
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Europe
Compassion and Calculation: The EU and Neglected Diseases
The failures in developing treatments for neglected diseases is perceived as a demonstration of the failure of the development model that richer countries have depended on, and which may also prove deficient in the face of evolving challenges. Reflector reports
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Calendar
/ June 6–9: BIO International Convention /
San Francisco, CA.
/ June 21–22: Patient Engagement Solutions Summit /
Philadelphia, PA.
/ June 22–23: Global Medical Information and Communications Summit /
Barcelona, Spain.
/ August 15–17: 10th Annual Forum on Transparency and Aggregate Spend /
Washington, DC.
/ December 13–14: Life Sciences Trade and Channel Strategies /
Philadelphia, PA
 
Industry update
//Bioclinica (Doylestown, PA) announced two additions to its eHealth business segment leadership team.Steven Herne was named Chief Commercial Officer and Francois Audibert joined as Vice President for Global Consulting.//James Dentzer joined Curis (Lexington, MA) as Chief Financial and Chief Administrative Officer, wbile the company also promoted David Tuck, M.D. to Chief Medical Officer and Mani Mohindru, Ph.D. to Chief Strategy Officer.//AcelRx Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Redwood City, CA) announced the appointment of Howard B. Rosen as Chief Executive Officer, effective April 1, 2016.//
 
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