Not Swedish – here’s why

Last week, another blogger implied that perhaps I was Swedish, a notion which I quickly sought to dismiss. Now I can reveal the reason why. I bring you: Swedish Bands of the 70′s. With apologies to Peter Rost, this page should be enough to convince anyone to renounce Swedish citizenship and catch the first boat [...]

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Impact Interview – The Recommender

Impactiviti interviews Steve Woodruff, President and Founder of…Impactiviti. Steve consults with pharmaceutical clients on training, marketing, and communications initiatives, with a particular focus on strategic planning, project definition, and vendor recommendations. Previously, Steve held Sales/Marketing/Business development positions with Pedagogue Solutions, and with a medical device company in the radiation medicine field. Steve actively blogs at [...]

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After Hours 8_30

You think your commute is wild? I used to think driving over an hour each way (thankfully, that’s in the past) was an adventure…until I saw this. A rusty cable, a hook, a stick…and an amazing ride 1,200 feet up. Is your Help Desk a bit short of friendly? Check out this approach. A couple [...]

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Pharma News 8_30

On the Oncology front… Bayer‘s Nexavar shows encouraging results: Bayer and Onyx Pharmaceuticals said they were stopping a late clinical liver cancer trial with Nexavar in the Asia-Pacific region so patients can get the drug sooner after encouraging results…more Vaccinating against other cancers? Should boys get the vaccine that prevents cervical cancer in women? Maybe, [...]

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Big Pharma Outsources all “Bad Stuff” to Sri Lanka

In a surprise move today, the heads of the Top Twenty Big Pharma companies announced that all mistakes, scandals, negative side effects, approval delays, and “other bad staff” would all be outsourced to the tiny country of Sri Lanka. “Frankly, we’re sick of dealing with it all,” said Hank McSpinnell, President and CEO of the [...]

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Upping the Statin Quo

Two news releases this morning on good effects of statins: Continued Statin use Boosts Post-Stroke Outcomes – Hospitalized stroke patients who stop taking their cholesterol-lowering statin drugs — even for a short time — may increase their long-term risk of death and disability, researchers report… (more, from Forbes.com) How Statins can help to protect from [...]

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After Hours 8_24

After Hours is a weekly collection of random interesting stuff I’ve found during my voyages hither and yon. Enjoy! Is Steve Woodruff actually a Swedish policeman toting an AK-47 to work? I wish I’d know about this sooner. Kids are now being diagnosed with Youthful Tendency Disorder. Time Magazine’s 50 best websites of 2007. Google [...]

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Pharma News 8_24

Novartis gets approval for Reclast, a once-per-year osteoporosis treatment. That’s a game-changer – very cool advance that should lead to far better patient compliance. A long-ish article on Wyeth‘s efforts to find Alzheimer’s treatments. It’s a risky R&D commitment, but nobody questions that desirability of finding new advances here. Also, MedAd News has a brief [...]

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Portal Update

Pageflakes has recently updated their portal software, and the interface is cleaner and slicker now. If you haven’t visited lately, take a fresh look at the portals we created to give you fingertip access to leading blogs, all in one place: Pharmacentral (over 30 pharma bloggers, including news, training/marketing, gossip, and more) Training Bloggers (over [...]

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So you want to have an eLearning Platform…

Maybe you don’t actually WANT to! Maybe you HAVE to (really, it’s not all that bad. It can even be fun, in a root-canal kind of way)! And, if you’re in a smaller and mid-sized pharma company, you may be facing this for the first time. I feel bad putting the hair-pulling picture in, because [...]

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