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Pharmaceutical Manufacturing and Packing Sourcer
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The last 12 months have been something of a roller-coaster ride, with some big 'downs' and a few small 'ups'. Just now, we are in a tunnel waiting to find out what lies ahead. Overshadowing the economic climate post September 11th, there have been spectacular crashes like that of Enron Corp., largely due to voodoo accounting practices. Events such as these are a healthy reminder that leveraging earnings to achieve growth also increases risk. So far, the pharmaceutical industry has seemed immune from similar troubles, while the big merger of Pharmacia and Pfizer looks set to create the first mega-pharma company. M&A deals are pharma's attempt to regain shareholder value. However, the news is grim for employment prospects as the industry braces itself for yet more job losses in the wake of post-merger restructuring.
Earlier in the year, analysts predicted improved prospects for manufacturing which could have helped the production sector in pharma and biotech. Outsourced pharmaceutical manufacturing has proved remarkably resilient. It's as well that the industry has the support of a robust infrastructure enabling it to deliver quality products at costs that are lower than that of in-house manufacturing - as long as similar accounting standards are used to compare them. Is this golden scenario about to change to base metal, to match the leaden skies?
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Industry Events |
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4th Annual Patient Recruitment and Retention in Clinical Trials
13-15 October 2008, Amsterdam
Patient recruitment
is now consuming thirty percent of clinical trial time - more time than any
other clinical trial activity - and almost half of all trial delays result from
patient recruitment problems.
As the
recruiting culture becomes more sophisticated and the forces affecting patient
enrollment grow more numerous and complex, pharmaceutical companies are
striving to discover new strategies to facilitate enrollment in clinical
trials.
With
increasing industry pressure to develop, test and market greater numbers of new
drugs faster, pharmaceutical companies need to perform clinical trials as
quickly as possible. Inefficient patient recruitment processes is a formidable
barrier to pharmaceutical companies' success in launching new products.
Improving the patient recruitment process is imperative to avoid wasted
investments and eliminate costly delays in bringing new drugs to market --
today and even more so in the not-so-distant future. Improved patient
recruitment presents one of the largest opportunities for pharmaceutical
companies to eliminate delays in clinical trials, thereby making it possible to
reduce time to market. With patent time limits and large overheads
meaning that any delays in the development timeline can be disastrous, a good
understanding of how to successfully recruit patients for trials is vital for
any company looking to succeed.
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