Whew! The back-to-back conference marathon is now over, and we can get back to our regular pharma news reporting. Here’s what’s up today…
TODAY’S NEWS
Everyone’s talking about the Zetia/Niaspan study – its results, its significance, its limitations. Bottom line – I can’t see how this can be good for Merck. More here. And Jim Edwards analyzes the damage control spin effort here.
Always a headline topic: female sexual desire treatments. The more you read about this drug (experimental ‘flibanserin’ from Boehringer-Ingelheim), however, the more you wonder if the purported effect will be worth the expense and the side effects.
BMS pushing Mead-Johnson out of the nest. It is amazing to me how drug companies cycle through periods where they diversify, then spin divisions off…
Novartis: half a dose of H1N1 vaccine may be enough. Now that’s how to increase vaccine supply!
If you’re going to blow the whistle, I guess it’s important to get on to the field of play! Whistleblower lawsuit against J&J dismissed.
RECOMMENDED
Leadership – talent selection. How is your organization choosing leaders? Impactiviti’s provider network has proven, best-in-class talent selection/management solutions. Contact us (stevew at impactiviti dot com, or phone at 973-947-7429) for recommendations.
PLUS
Is this drug a frog, or a prince? I dunno, but I like the picture…!
JUST FOR FUN
———-
Subscribe to the Impactiviti blog via e-mail (which will bring you Impactiviti Daily – a brief of the day’s top pharma news)
Sign up for the Impactiviti Connection twice-monthly e-newsletter (see sample)
Connect with Steve Woodruff
Leave a Reply