Healthpoint has named Jay Speelhoffer VP of sales for the pharmaceutical company’s tissue management division.
AstraZeneca, Biovail enter into agreement for Zoladex
June 1, 2006
4:28 pm
AstraZeneca and Biovail have entered into an agreement in which Biovail’s specialty sales force will promote AstraZeneca’s Zoladex (goserelin acetate implant) to obstetricians and gynecologists for the treatment of endometriosis in the US and Puerto Rico.
There’s “a certain amount of hypocrisy” in Sen. Chuck Grassley’s current probe of drug company involvement in CME programs, writes industry attorney Jeffrey N. Gibbs (Hyman, Phelps & McNamara) in a Washington Legal Foundation legal backgrounder.
Mariani joins Interlink as medical director
June 1, 2006
3:15 pm
Interlink Healthcare Communications, a unit of Lowe Healthcare Worldwide, has hired Sara Mariani, MD, PhD, as medical director.
New disclosures show that former FDA commissioner Lester Crawford took the unprecedented step of assuming all decision-making authority on the OTC Plan B emergency contraceptive, the issue that continues to block Senate consideration of his nominated successor, acting commissioner Andrew von Eschenbach.
Women wept in the streets when the FDA’s first commissioner left office in 1912.
Harvard Medical School to provide content for Pri-med
June 1, 2006
3:03 pm
M|C Communications says Harvard Medical School will provide content for Pri-Med Patient Education Center, a venture introducing multimedia education systems into physicians’ waiting rooms.
Medline journal adds to its editorial team
June 1, 2006
3:01 pm
Diabetes Technology & Therapeutics, a Medline journal published by Mary Ann Liebert, named Satish K. Garg, MD, editor in chief.