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Are pharmaceutical mega-mergers in the public interest?
The main reason for governments around the world to encourage the pharmaceutical industry is to support Research and Development – R&D – with a view to the discovery of new drugs of future benefit to mankind. Commercial pharmaceutical companies have played … Continue reading
Posted in Business, competition, Drugs, Innovation, International, Pharma, Policy, Research, Technology
Tagged 2020health, AstraZeneca, Beecham, Boots, competition, David Jack, Drugs, Glaxo, innovation, Keith Mansford, medicine, merger, Pfizer, pharmaceutical, R&D, Research, Sir David Jack, SmithKline, Smithkline Beecham, Tagamet, takeover
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Pharmaceutical companies must be free to determine their own research priorities: Lessons from Alzheimer’s Disease
Guest blog post from Barbara Arzymanow, Independent Healthcare Consultant Sir David Jack (1924-2011), one of history’s greatest pharmaceutical R&D directors under whom many important drugs were discovered, once told me that neither governments nor companies should overrule senior R&D management. … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Drugs, Innovation
Tagged acetylcholine, acetylcholinesterase, Alzheimer's, block-buster, British Biotech, C1-inh, cholinesterase, David Jack, glutamate, hub, innovation, marimastat, medicine, mental health, Neurochem, NICE, NMDA, pharmaceutical, R&D, Research, Sir David Jack
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Guest Blogspot: Pharmaceutical R & D – the value of radical innovation versus incremental progress
What we really want is affordable products that benefit patients, whether or not they are “innovative” in the usual sense of the word. Scientific innovation is not a medical end in itself. The ultimate aim of pharmaceutical R&D is to … Continue reading
Posted in Business, competition, Department of Health, Drugs, Emerging technologies, Finance, Healthcare, Innovation, NHS, Patients, Pharma, Policy, Research, Technology, Uncategorized
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Guest Blogspot- Dept. of Health Consultation on Drug Pricing: “A new value-based approach to the pricing of branded medicines”
The Department of Health deadline for public submissions on pharmaceutical pricing is this Thursday. Many pitfalls must be avoided if the Government’s proposals are to form the basis of a successful drug pricing policy. Some problems are not easy to … Continue reading
Posted in Andrew Lansley, Business, competition, Department of Health, Drugs, NHS, Pharma, Policy, Research, Uncategorized
Tagged 2020health, Andrew lansley, competition, David Jack, Department of Health, Drugs, health, innovation, innovative, medicine, National Health Service, NHS, parallel export, parallel import, patent box, pharmaceutical, PPRS, pricing, R&D, R&D tax credit, Research, unmet, unmet clinical need, unmet healthcare need, unmet medical need, value-based, value-based pricing, winner takes all
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