Drug firms try to bribe doctors with cars
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Â· Developing world 'easy target' for multinationals Â· Gifts and pampering now norm, says report
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Consumer Reports' effort to rate drugs offers a lesson to pharmaceutical companies.
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There's nothing wrong with drug reps schmooze with doctors.
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The American Medical Association is working with a startup company that encourages doctors to swap ideas online and charges investment firms to view postings that could serve as tip-offs to drug side effects and other market-moving medical trends.
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Pharmacy's mail-order policy spurs the automaker's cost-containment decision.
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Pfizer, GlaxoSmithKline and Purdue Pharma are the first drugmakers willing to take the plunge and use radio frequency identification technology to protect their US drug supply chains from counterfeiters.
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British drugmakers are launching a legal  challenge to moves by the state-run National Health Service to  switch large numbers of patients onto cheap generic  prescription medicines.
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Drug companies are fighting most of the state initiatives, which they say will deny patients access to valuable treatments.
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A month after a new U.S. law encouraging the development of medicines to counter bioterrorism, some drugmakers are lobbying for more incentives to make products that may never be used.
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Many people will soon be required to receive their drugs by mail order so their employers can get lucrative rebates and deep discounts.
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The billions that drug companies  spend on personal visits to promote new drugs and hand out free  samples to doctors have little effect on how doctors prescribe  drugs, according to a study published on Wednesday.
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A survey of hospital review boards that watchdog experiments on patients shows that one in three members takes money from companies that make drugs and medical devices that come under study.
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The Food and Drug Administration (FDA), in conjunction with several major drug companies, is working on an initiative that would involve fitting medicine bottles with tiny antennas to prevent fraud and counterfeiting, the New York Times reported Nov. 15.
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The initiative is part of an effort to ferret out unpublished research consucted by pharmaceutical companies that finds medications to be ineffective or dangerous.
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Faced with weak development pipelines that are putting a drag on stock prices, drug manufacturers are retooling the decades-old system of clinical trials to make it faster and cheaper.
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Critics charge conflict of interest in a system where pharmaceutical giants fund the regulatory process.
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The audacious takeover bid that could lead to lower drug prices for consumers.