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April 24, 2014 | ISSUE NUMBER 348 VOL 4

Deals
The Dawn of a New Age of Megamerger?
The big news this week of the GSK–Novartis asset swap and rumors of a Pfizer bid for AstraZeneca prompted many a commentator to speculate that reports of the megamerger’s death may have been greatly exaggerated ...Read more

Marketing to Professionals
Are Drug Ads in Print Journals Still Effective?
If the American public could shed girth as quickly as many medical journals have in recent years, we’d all be a lot healthier. Collectively, medical journals dropped over 4,200 pages in 2013. But marketers should think twice about cutting off print journal plays ...Read more

Adam Smith Conferences’ Russian Pharmaceutical Forum

Fresh and innovative programme offers plenty of topics and themes to stimulate lively and constructive discussions. HEARover 100 expert speakers (Novartis, AstraZeneca, Pfizer, Teva, Stada, Takeda, Dr.Reddys), EXPERIENCE sessions sharing the best pharmaceutical practices (Generics vs Brands, Biogeneric Producers vs Biological Innovators, Patient Advocacy), LISTEN to special guest addresses (Multichannel Marketing Strategy) and GATHER inspirational ideas from executive debates (Distribution Strategy).

Date: June 17 - 19, 2014
Location: St.Petersburg, Russia
Venue: Corinthia St.Petersburg Hotel
Contact: Lyudmyla Durneva +44 (0) 207 551 9065 Lyudmyla@adamsmithconferences.com
Website:www.adamsmithconferences.com/as2279PHEX

Patient Information
Will Pharma Help to Fix Wikipedia?
Will Pharma join a growing effort to make the world's leading online health information resource more relevant to providers and safer for patients? Peter Houston reports
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Pricing
Medicare Data Raises Questions about Drug Costs
The recently released Medicare data on payments to individual doctors doesn’t provide specifics on prescription drug outlays, but opens the door to scrutiny of Medicare reimbursement for medicines delivered in physician offices, writes Jill Wechsler
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White Paper – Reprints at the Dawn of the 'Sunshine Act'

Medical journal article reprints provide health care professionals credible clinical evidence that a product works. Read about the new reprint regulations emerging from the Physician Payment Sunshine Act. Learn about newer ePrint formats and discover new distribution channels to get the right article to the right prescriber at the right time.Read more

Pricing
Is Gilead’s $1000 Pill Worth It?
The Department of Veterans Affairs and other California panels’ solution to the new and extremely costly hepatitis (Hep) C drugs (Sovaldi and Olysio) is to reserve them for the patients with advanced liver diseases, including those awaiting transplants. What should patients with “milder” cases do then?
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Global
Market Access in Latin American: Specialty Products
Andrea Sobrio and Dr Sandra Schoenes examine the market access challenges and opportunities specifically for premium, specialty inpatient drugs in the Latin American region
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Leadership
Pharm Exec’s Emerging Pharma Leaders 2014 — Nominate Now
It's time for you to tell us who you think should receive Pharm Exec's 2014 Emerging Pharma Leadership Award. Read more for details of how to nominate a colleague — or yourself.
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//AMAG Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Waltham, MA) announced that Gino Santini, has been elected as the new Chairman of the Board and James R. Sulat will serve as a new board member.//FORUM Pharmaceuticals appointed Todd Shegog as Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer.//Lupin Pharmaceuticals (Baltimore, MD and Mumbai, India) appointed Theresa Stevens as Chief Corporate Development Officer for its global operations.//Ken Keller was named President, U.S. Commercial, of Daiichi Sankyo (Parsippany, NJ).//Spectrum Pharmaceuticals (Irvine, CA) promoted two of its executives.  Joseph Turgeon became Chief Operating Officer and Thomas Riga was named Senior Vice President, Chief Commercial Officer.//

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June 17–18: PAAS 2014 Patient Adherence and Access Summit
Philadelphia, PA


August 18–20: Transparency and Aggregate Spend
Washington, DC


 
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