GETTING A PHARMA JOB

Getting organized in your job.

The benefits of being organized when starting one's career are countless and worth the time and effort in developing an effective and efficient practice. Established protocols, good habits, and methodical communication that include all members of the team will help create a system that keeps all components of one's practice organized. Adhering to these strategies requires self-discipline. Apply...

Suboxone pharma foibles/FDA does its job well.

Of the 37,485 americans who lost their lives in 2009 to illicit drug use, prescription pain medications caused more deaths than heroin and cocaine combined. Opiates are misused more than any other class of prescription medications. Opiate dependence affects an estimated 1.9 million Americans. Reckitt Benckiser, a British-based company, brought Suboxone (buprenorphine/naloxone) to market in 2002...

Getting the Job Done in a Hostile Environment

In nature animals going about their daily routine need to avoid predators in order to survive. Many animals have evolved some kind of startle response, which enables them to escape from dangerous situations. As robots are required to operate in more hostile environments, mechanisms analogous to startle responses may be critical to building robust systems. This paper presents some preliminary wo...

What is the right profile for getting a job?

We study the recruitment behavior of Swedish employers using data from a stated choice experiment. In the experiment, the employers are first asked to describe an employee who recently and voluntarily left the firm, and then to choose between two hypothetical applicants to invite to a job interview or to hire as a replacement for their previous employee. The two applicants differ with respect t...

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