Recent Articles
July 14, 2008
The initials CEO, CFO and COO have become so ubiquitous that it's no longer necessary to spell out what they stand for. (I hope.)
July 14, 2008
Pfizer's recent decision to pull the plug on direct funding of CME through independent commercial providers follows months of public criticism of pharma support. Lew Miller and Warren Ross explore how the rest of the industry is coping with the assault
June 01, 2008
One of the most useful skills I learned in high school was how to write book reports without reading the whole book.
May 01, 2008
The pioneers of biotech began their journey with an endless level of optimism and promise. So, why has the goal of redefining the landscape and achieving the blockbuster success the likes of Big Pharma proven so elusive?
April 01, 2008
It's become part of received wisdom that today's patient is an active partner in his or her medical care. Since we all accept this as fact, we don't think it's worth questioning.
February 01, 2008
Success! When Congress was debating the new Medicare drug benefit, the pharmaceutical industry's top priority was to make sure the government could not negotiate prescription drug prices.
February 01, 2008
What, if anything, is wrong with FDA? And who's to blame: the agency's leadership or its massed ranks of critics? These are just some of the questions Warren Ross posed to an opinionated panel of agency alumni and observers in the know
December 01, 2007
Pardon my French, but there's no better cliché to describe a special issue of Harper's magazine dated October 1960, starting with the cover headline: "The Crisis in American Medicine."
December 01, 2007
Few analysts have proved as prescient over the years as Morgan Stanley's Jami Rubin, recently ranked third among industry analysts by Institutional Investor.
September 01, 2007
When the members of the FDA advisory committee voted 22 to 1 to keep Avandia on the market, they had concluded that the epidemiologic data showed that the benefits of the drug outweighed the risks.