Posted in Medicine, Pharmaceutical, tagged dose-alert, searchmedica, wakerupper on November 29, 2007 | 1 Comment »
From BusinessWeek - 101 Best Web Freebies. Interesting collection of web sites where you can get free stuff. From this page, I found Silver Jewelry Club, where you can order some nice-looking jewelry for free (only pay shipping) - we’ll see what my wife thinks at Christmas!
Wakerupper - put in the time, and this site [...]
Posted in Pharma, Pharmaceutical, Sales, Sales training, Wyeth, tagged counter-detailing, dan carlat, effexor XR, jane chin on November 29, 2007 | No Comments »
From PharmaVoice - free download of an article from a number of thought leaders on needed changes in the field sales model for pharma.
RepReview2007 - you can get this free article forwarded to you. Much of it is a keen grasp of the obvious, but for those needing to make a case for specific training [...]
Posted in Abbott, Biotech, Celgene, GSK, Glaxosmithkline, Healthcare, J&J, Johnson and Johnson, Medical Devices, Novartis, Oncology, Pharma, Pharma News, Pharmaceutical, tagged natrecor, par-4, resveratrol, revlimid, sirtris, Tasigna, xience on November 29, 2007 | No Comments »
Glaxo buying Reliant - GlaxoSmithKline Plc has agreed to buy privately held heart drug specialist Reliant Pharmaceuticals for $1.65 billion in cash, in a move to boost its flagging drug sales in the United States…more
J&J says good-bye to $440 mil - Johnson & Johnson said on Thursday its fourth-quarter results would include a special after-tax, [...]
Posted in Medicine, Pharma, Pharmaceutical, tagged carlat, Effexor, pharmaceuticals, physician speaker, ssri, Wyeth on November 26, 2007 | 2 Comments »
A long and interesting article from NY Times magazine, about the process a doctor went through as a “recruit” to be a paid spokesperson for a drug company.
Excerpt:
How many doctors speak for drug companies? We don’t know for sure, but one recent study indicates that at least 25 percent of all doctors in the [...]
Posted in Allergan, tagged Age Intervention Eyelash Conditioner, bimatoprost, eyelash, Lumigan on November 19, 2007 | No Comments »
From the WSJ today…
Drug That Lengthens Eyelashes Sets Off Flutter
By RHONDA L. RUNDLE
November 19, 2007; Page B1
In the latest blurring of the line between cosmetics and drugs, new products that promise to make eyelashes look longer are causing a stir among physicians and regulators because they contain ingredients that are the same or similar to those in [...]
Posted in Biotech, Celgene, Schering, Wyeth, tagged Bayer, liver cancer, Nexavar, Organon, Pharmion on November 19, 2007 | No Comments »
Looks, on the surface, like a good match of products and market presence - Celgene buys Pharmion. And, in other important oncology news, Nexavar (from Bayer) gets expedited approval for liver cancer.
Also, Schering cleared to take over Organon - by divesting bird vaccines to Wyeth.
Posted in Fun, tagged boonton nj, november, snow on November 19, 2007 | No Comments »
A mid-November surprise, before many of the leaves have come down.
Sure is beautiful, if ultimately ephemeral - probably won’t last through the day.
Posted in Avandia, GSK, Glaxosmithkline, J&J, Lilly, Medicine, Pharma, Pharma News, Pharmaceutical, Roche, Sanofi-Aventis, Takeda, tagged acomplia, actos, forteo, fosamax, nektar, Pfizer, selling power on November 15, 2007 | No Comments »
As is becoming a more common event, this week’s news posting is being composed from an airport hotel room. My NJ ASTD colleagues are networking at the Annual Technology Training Showcase in Bridgewater; I’m in Chicago watching UConn stomp Gardner-Webb in basketball - oh, well.
It’s been another noisy week in pharma, mainly with the blacker [...]
Posted in Sales training, Training, tagged coaching, mentoring, role play on November 14, 2007 | 2 Comments »
How role play is being used effectively in another industry (real estate) for sales training.
Truly buying in to this perspective should shape/re-shape the entire approach to initial sales training, as is the case with at least one of my clients. You may wish to consider how to strategically push more of the didactic learning into [...]
Posted in Healthcare, Medicine, tagged diabetes, insulin, islet cells, pancreas on November 14, 2007 | No Comments »
Very interesting article in today’s USA Today newspaper, about the use of transplanted islet cells to re-awaken pancreatic function for producing insulin.
If this works out, it could certainly revolutionize some aspects of diabetes treatment in the future.
