BACKGROUND Local pharmaceutical production has been endorsed by the WHO as a means of addressing health priorities of developing countries. However, local producers of essential medicines must comply with international pharmaceutical standards in order to be eligible to compete in donor tenders. These standards determine production rights for on-patent and off-patent medicines, and guide intern...

OBJECTIVE Early contact of medical students with pharmaceutical promotion has been shown in many international studies. We assessed the frequency and places of contact of German medical students to pharmaceutical promotion and examined their attitudes toward pharmaceutical promotional activities. METHODS This cross-sectional survey was based on a self-developed questionnaire. It was distribut...

1. The medical profession represented by the Standing Committee of European Doctors (CPME), and the pharmaceutical industry represented by the European Federation of Pharmaceutical Industries and Associations (EFPIA), aware of their responsibilities vis-à-vis patients and society, consider it essential to establish a framework that can serve as guidelines at a European level as well as at a nat...

information will be of particular interest to engineers , risk assessors and safety professionals in the chemical industry who have to deal with water reactive chemicals. A new revised and expanded 4th edition of Pharma-zeutische Wirksto¡e by A. Kleemann and J. Engel has been published in English as Pharmaceutical Substances: Bibliography. It contains information on over 2200 pharmaceutical com...

This project examines the use of SAS, which is both a statistical programming platform and a programming language, in the pharmaceutical industry for the purpose of analyzing clinical trial data used to gain approval of new drugs and medical devices. This material has been used to teach computer information students about statistical programming techniques, as well as to acquaint them with the ...

BACKGROUND Pharmaceutical industry is a sensitive and profitable industry. If this industry wants to survive, it should be able to compete well in international markets. So, study of Iran's intra-industry trade (IIT) in pharmaceuticals is essential in order to identify competitiveness potential of country and boost export capability in the global arena. METHODS This study assessed the factors...

BACKGROUND The relationship between health professionals and the pharmaceutical industry has become a source of controversy. Physicians' attitudes towards the industry can form early in their careers, but little is known about this key stage of development. METHODS AND FINDINGS We performed a systematic review reported according to PRISMA guidelines to determine the frequency and nature of me...

The pharmaceutical industry suffers from increasing counterfeit rates. Federal law restrictions force manufacturers to guarantee authenticity of their products. RFID technology can be used as foundation for an integer and counterfeit-resistant pharmaceutical supply chain. In the given paper, we introduce an architecture optimized for storing and searching of RFID data. It is specifically design...

Piero Iamartino coordinates the new AFI’s Pharmaceutical Technology working group, together with professor Andrea Gazzaniga of the University of Milan. He summarizes for Pharma World the history and final goals of the MCS initiative, originally proposed in 2014 by a British university-industry mixed working group led by representatives of three big pharma, Bristol-Myers Squibb, GlaxoSmithKline ...