Bonuses For GSK Pharma Sales Reps Won’t Be Tied to Sales This story really had me scratching my head.  GSK has gone from 9,000+ reps to only 2,000+ reps in three years...

In yet another legislative bid to tackle pay-to-delay deals, the US Senate Appropriations Committee voted yesterday to pass the Preserve Access to Affordable Generic Drugs Act, which was included in the...

In early 2009, Merck disclosed that manufacturing issues would disrupt supplies of its Recombivax hepatitis B vaccine for adults. Supplies of other vaccines have also been constrained. For instance, orders placed...

Craig Venter has never been a person to keep a lot of things bottled up inside him. But check out this interview with Der Speigel for even more candor than usual. For...

Fierce Biotech has it right - the management at Sanofi-Aventis is "leaking like an old wooden ship". That's why we're seeing so many reports from highly placed sources, and people familiar with...

I just received an email from MM&M announcing that the Finalists for its 2010 Awards have been chosen. When I clicked on the link in the email, I was taken to a...

When last we heard about the takeover of OSI by Astellas, everyone was standing around wondering what was going to happen. Some of that uncertainly seems, unfortunately, to be vanishing. A source...

According to today’s Wall Street Journal: Insured Americans are using fewer medical services, raising questions about whether patients are consuming less health care as they pick up a greater share of...

Here’s a radical idea: Congress should amend the Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to allow Americans to use new meds once these are approved by the European Medicines Authority. Why? “Congress’s...

Last week, several public interest groups filed a complaint with the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights alleging the Obama Administration’s US trade policy violates international human rights obligations. Specifically,...