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Dealmaking and Industry Outlook: Neurological Disease
Table of Contents Published: 2009/11
The plethora of recent reports of new genes and pathways linked to neurological diseases shows that the underlying causes of these diseases are far from certain; as a result, therapeutic strategies in effect today may soon be superseded by new approaches. ...

Drug Price/Cost Debate: Coping with Escalating Pricing Pressures
Table of Contents Published: 2009/11
The U.K. public' s suspicion of pharmaceutical profi teering in the H1N1 vaccine arena is just the tip of the iceberg in the ongoing and acrimonious battle over the prices that pharmaceutical companies charge for drugs and the costs that payers must cover ...

Biomarker and Diagnostic Opportunities in Clinical Research for Neurological Diseases
Table of Contents Published: 2009/10
Biomarkers and imaging tools are enabling technologies in today' s clinical research efforts for neurological diseases. Whether to improve upon existing methods for monitoring disease progression or to discover validated measures to detect diseases earlie ...

Market Access, Pricing, and Reimbursement News in the Third Quarter of 2009
Table of Contents Published: 2009/10
The third quarter of 2009 saw a heated debate in the United States over healthcare reform, the publication of a report on a European investigation of the pharmaceutical industry, the election of new governments in Japan and Germany, and new initiatives by ...

SPECIAL REPORT: The Pandemic Paradigm: Balancing Commercial Opportunities with Public Health Concerns in the Face of A/H1N1 2009
Table of Contents Published: 2009/10
WHO and the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) are advising countries to prepare for a more severe second wave of A/H1N1 2009 in the winter of 2009-2010. This advisement could be warranted, given that no infectious disease has kille ...

A Global Recession Drives New Business Strategies and Evolving Business Models in the Biopharma Industry
Table of Contents Published: 2009/09
The biotechnology and pharmaceutical sectors as we know them will soon cease to exist. Companies in these sectors have come face-to-face with the harrowing ordeals of a global recession. Four stresses on the industry are rapidly depleting cash reserves, c ...

Biopharma Quarter: Key Trends and Events of the Second Quarter of 2009
Table of Contents Published: 2009/09
The first Phase 0 trial results, the first fruits of Japan' s biosimilar pathway, the first straightforward use of the social marketing tool Twitter to advance a drug franchise, the first moves of the EU to regulate third-party mentions of pharmaceuticals ...

Disruption or Advantage? Update on Companion Diagnostics
Table of Contents Published: 2009/09
Some naysayers disagree, but we regard companion diagnostics as a win-win scenario for all stakeholders. Companion diagnostics combines drug and diagnostic test development. The potential for effi cient drug development is huge because companion diagnosti ...

Innovation, Health Technology Assessment, and Comparative Effectiveness Research: The Obstacle Course to Market Access
Table of Contents Published: 2009/09
The use of health technology assessment (HTA) is growing steadily in Europe, and the U.S. government has recently announced $1.1 billion in funding for comparative effectiveness research (CER) as part of its planned overhaul of the U.S. healthcare system. ...

Pharmaceutical Pricing and Reimbursement in India
Table of Contents Published: 2009/09
Faced with a dramatic slowdown in sales in mature pharmaceutical markets, multinational pharmaceutical companies are looking to substantially increase their sales in India and other emerging markets. The Indian market is growing by more than 10% per year, ...

Rethinking Pharmaceutical R&D: Will New Strategies Yield a Pipeline Payoff?
Table of Contents Published: 2009/09
Can radical changes to the structures and strategies of pharmaceutical R&D operations - such as creating more entrepreneurial environments modeled upon biotech companies - increase their productivity? Many major companies are reorganizing the research bra ...

SPECIAL REPORT: Can Innovation Supplant Convention in Sarcoidosis Treatment?
Table of Contents Published: 2009/09
I' d love there to be a better agent, says a thought leader on the current state of sarcoidosis treatment. Many sarcoidosis patients require little or no treatment, but patients with chronic disease need a therapy that is safer than the corticosteroids th ...

The 111th U.S. Congress Tackles Healthcare Reform and the Pharmaceutical Industry
Table of Contents Published: 2009/09
The stakes have never been higher or more serious for the pharmaceutical industry - a perfect storm of legislation is moving through Washington, D.C., to address patent reform, healthcare reform, drug importation, authorized generics, biosimilars, and muc ...

Chronic Myelogenous Leukemia: New Targeted Therapies Take Aim at Gleevec
Table of Contents Published: 2009/08
Chronic myelogenous leukemia (CML) is a rare blood cancer; nonetheless, CML treatments garner substantial revenues. Despite recent advances in the treatment of this disease (most notably, targeted therapeutics such as Novartis' s Gleevec/Glivec [imatinib] ...

Market Access, Pricing, and Reimbursement News in the Second Quarter of 2009
Table of Contents Published: 2009/08
The second quarter of 2009 saw steady progress toward healthcare reform in the United States and action in several of the world' s other major pharmaceutical markets to curb pharmaceutical expenditures. ...

Monitoring Health Through Novel Technologies: Where Are We with Point-of-Care Diagnostics?
Table of Contents Published: 2009/08
The point-of-care (POC) diagnostics segment of the in vitro diagnostics fi eld once largely consisted of glucosemonitoring devices. With billions of dollars generated in revenue in the United States alone, POC testing has blossomed into a market that inco ...

Neurological Disease: Early-Stage R&D and Dealmaking
Table of Contents Published: 2009/08
How can early-stage R&D efforts be positioned to tap the remaining opportunity in the neurology drug market? Although brimming with potential, neurology drug development is also rife with unique challenges that many companies and agents have been unable t ...

Special Report - The Autism Spectrum Disorders Market: Substantial Opportunity and Unique Challenges
Table of Contents Published: 2009/08
An increase in public funding for research and a heightened interest among drug developers suggest that a breakthrough in autism spectrum disorder (ASD) treatment may be imminent. ...

The Neurology Pipeline: A Strategic Review
Table of Contents Published: 2009/08
Mega-blockbuster status would be quick and sure for any safe, effective agent that prevents the death and damage of neurons associated with neurodegenerative diseases. The potential of such a neuroprotectant is one of the motivations for the 188 companies ...

The Pricing and Reimbursement Environment for Neurology Drugs
Table of Contents Published: 2009/08
Neurological disorders will impose a growing social and fi nancial burden on the major pharmaceutical markets as the elderly population in these countries increases steadily. Governments and other payers recognize the pressing need to tackle these disease ...

Uncovering Biomarker and Diagnostic Opportunities in Immune and Inflammatory Diseases
Table of Contents Published: 2009/08
Despite the robust drug market for immune and infl ammatory diseases and their high prevalence, diagnostics associated with these diseases do not constitute a large marketplace. ...

Dealmaking and Industry Outlook: Autoimmune and Inflammatory Diseases
Table of Contents Published: 2009/07
Better diagnostics, the means to treat earlier stage-disease, disease-modifying therapies, and disease prevention are the holy grails of autoimmune and infl ammatory disease drug development. However, basic science and redundant biological pathways are ho ...

Strategies for Building Early-Stage Pipelines Through External Sources
Table of Contents Published: 2009/07
Under tremendous pressure to refuel dwindling development pipelines and improve R&D productivity, pharmaceutical companies are seeking external sources of products and innovation. Biotech companies offer valuable technologies, targets, and compounds. Phar ...

The Psychiatric Disease Pipeline: A Strategic Review
Table of Contents Published: 2009/07
Numbers tell the story in psychiatric disease drug development: almost 300 recognized indications, 28% 12-month prevalence that yields large patient populations, strong 7.5% annual sales growth in recent years, sustained franchise sales, tolerance for use ...

Biopharma Quarter: Key Trends and Events of the First Quarter of 2009
Table of Contents Published: 2009/06
No Bear Stearns, no Lehman Brothers, no Chrysler, no humiliating hat-in-hand audiences with Congress. The biopharma industry has not seen one of its leaders tumble in the way that the financial and automotive industries have. Certainly, though, many small ...

Brands & Strategies: Alzheimer's Disease
Table of Contents Published: 2009/06
In 2007, the Alzheimer' s disease (AD) market, valued at more than $3 billion in the United States, Europe, and Japan, was led by sales of Eisai/Pfizer' s Aricept. The growth of all the currently available agents will decline by the end of our forecast, a ...

Key Trends Fueling the Boom in Genetic Testing
Table of Contents Published: 2009/06
Progress aptly describes the expanding field of genetic testing. The field is more than finding linkages of genes with diseases: it encompasses technologies that have made it easier to quickly and more efficiently discover genetic markers that predict dis ...

Mega-Mergers: Executing Change in the Pharma Industry
Table of Contents Published: 2009/06
If consolidation is so advantageous for boosting a pharma company to a new level of productivity, why has Pfizer engaged in not just one but three mega-mergers in the past ten years: $92.3 billion for Warner-Lambert in 2000, $60 billion for Pharmacia in 2 ...

New Strategies in Academic-Industry Collaborations
Table of Contents Published: 2009/06
Major pharmaceutical companies are showing increased interest in directly sponsoring academic research to access innovation and fill dwindling pipelines. Recent agreements involve higher levels of collaboration and funding, are broader in scope, and focus ...

Opportunities in Menopausal Treatments: Will New Therapies Overtake Hormone Replacement?
Table of Contents Published: 2009/06
For decades, the effi cacy of hormone replacement therapy (HRT) for some of menopause' s most troublesome symptoms eliminated any incentive to develop new approaches to treatment. However, data questioning the safety of estrogen-containing therapies have ...

Pharmaceutical Pricing and Reimbursement in China
Table of Contents Published: 2009/06
With a growth rate of more than 20% per year, the Chinese pharmaceutical market is set to become the third largest in the world in 2011. A radical healthcare reform package recently unveiled by the government will more than double public healthcare expend ...

SPECIAL REPORT: 2009 Chartbook of International Pharmaceutical Prices
Table of Contents Published: 2009/06
Payers in all countries are increasing their pressure on manufacturers to cut prices. But prescription drug pricing and reimbursement policies vary markedly among the leading pharmaceutical markets, so, to best determine pricing, pharmaceutical companies ...

SPECIAL REPORT: Understanding Treatment Dynamics and Needs in Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis
Table of Contents Published: 2009/06
Although interviewed thought leaders acknowledge that available biological therapies have greatly improved treatment of juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA) - the most common rheumatic disease in children - they do not hesitate to point out unmet needs and ...

The Pricing and Reimbursement Environment for Immune Disease Therapies
Table of Contents Published: 2009/06
Drug therapies for immune disorders span an enormous price range from a few cents per day to tens of thousands of dollars per year. Not surprisingly, payers impose restrictions on the use of the most expensive agents, especially biologics. These restrict ...

Dealmaking and Industry Outlook: Antivirals
Table of Contents Published: 2009/05
The infamous mutability of viruses has long challenged antiviral drug developers, but complete genome sequences are now known for thousands of viruses, and the viral proteins encoded in these sequences are being used as targets for novel antiviral develop ...

Dealmaking and Industry Outlook: Geriatric Diseases
Table of Contents Published: 2009/05
Rising Medicare costs driven by the aging baby boomers will, within the next few years, propel public national health expenditures in the United States above private national health expenditures for the first time ever. Increasing expenditures are just on ...

Immune/Inflammatory Disease: Early-Stage R&D Technologies and Dealmaking
Table of Contents Published: 2009/05
Today' s leading autoimmune/infl ammatory disease drugs are blockbusters, but what are the remaining unmet needs and next opportunities? Dealmaking patterns indicate that Big Pharma continues to look to small technology companies to tap opportunities to t ...

SPECIAL REPORT: Riding the Biotech Economic Tsunami - Surfing to Safety or Wipeout?
Table of Contents Published: 2009/05
In 2008, the global financial crisis radically altered the dynamics of the biotech industry; many weaker companies will fail. However, private investment in biotech continued, and pharmaceutical companies invested significant sums in acquiring and partner ...

The Immune/Inflammatory Pipeline: A Strategic Review
Table of Contents Published: 2009/05
The current immune/inflammatory pipeline is over 375 drugs strong, with approximately 250 companies involved in these agents' development. Yet, despite this robust pipeline size, Decision Resources analysts do not believe that any one agent in development ...

Dealmaking and Industry Outlook: Therapeutic Antibodies and Vaccines for Cancer
Table of Contents Published: 2009/04
Targeted cancer therapies have achieved phenomenal growth, and many MAb-based immunotherapies are blockbusters or mega-blockbusters. This market success is due not only to these MAbs' ability to treat unmet need in many cancers but also to the high cost o ...

Market Access, Pricing, and Reimbursement News in the First Quarter of 2009
Table of Contents Published: 2009/04
The fourth quarter of 2009 was characterized by a wide range of new pricing and reimbursement initiatives in the United States but more focused measures in most of the world' s other leading pharmaceutical markets. In the short term, payers are exerting p ...

Nucleic Acid Testing: A Vehicle for Advancing Personalized Medicine
Table of Contents Published: 2009/04
One of the fastest-growing segments of molecular diagnostics is nucleic acid testing (NAT). NAT is central to the life sciences industry, to improved healthcare, and to personalized medicine. Tools based on NAT are used to discover new biomarkers and deve ...

Strategic Overview of Spondyloarthropathies: Tapping the Market Opportunity of Niche Immune Diseases
Table of Contents Published: 2009/04
A trio of niche immune diseases have gained drug developers' attention after a period of strong sales growth. Treatment of these diseases, the spondyloarthropathies (SpAs), was revolutionized by the availability of TNF-alpha inhibitors and in turn these d ...

The Cardiovascular Disease Pipeline: A Strategic Review
Table of Contents Published: 2009/04
The robust and diverse cardiovascular disease (CVD) R&D pipeline is evidence of companies' awareness that these diseases remain leading causes of death worldwide, and that the chronic nature of many CVDs offers signifi cant commercial opportunity. ...

Ankylosing Spondylitis: How Have Biological Therapies Affected the Market?
Table of Contents Published: 2009/03
The availability of TNF-ƒ¿ inhibitors fueled a tremendous year-on-year increase in the ankylosing spondylitis (AS) market from 2006 to 2007, and we expect significant growth to continue over the next ten years. Although these agents may establish themselv ...

Biopharma Quarter: Key Trends and Events of the Fourth Quarter of 2008
Table of Contents Published: 2009/03
2008 came to a close amid political transition in the world' s largest pharmaceutical market and economic upheaval in all of the world' s markets. Our review of key events that occurred in the fourth quarter and prominent trends at play in that time frame ...

Dealmaking and Business Strategies in the Age of Personalized Medicine
Table of Contents Published: 2009/03
The promise of personalized medicine is having a profound impact on the healthcare industry. It promises to change the way healthcare is delivered and how drugs and diagnostics are developed. Pharma companies are still worried. ...

Drug Benefit Trends in the United States
Table of Contents Published: 2009/03
After many years of vigorous growth, the world' s dominant pharmaceutical market faces unprecedented challenges in the near future. This report, which features 27 fi gures and tables, analyzes recent drug benefi t trends and assesses the outlook and impli ...

Formulary Decision Making in the United States
Table of Contents Published: 2009/03
The U.S. pharmaceutical industry is facing the worst combination of pressures in memory - the most severe recession in decades, a dramatic slowdown in pharmaceutical sales, a new U.S. administration intent on slashing healthcare costs, and a host of block ...

Insights into Platform Technology and Early-Stage Pipeline Mergers and Acquisitions
Table of Contents Published: 2009/03
The continuing activity in mergers and acquisitions (M&As) involving biotechnology companies refl ects the industry' s growth and maturity. Biotech companies are increasingly merging for strategic reasons that include business, clinical, and technological ...

Know the Other "Omics": Exploring Drug and Diagnostics Development Through Proteomics
Table of Contents Published: 2009/03
Genomics has paved the way for its cousin, proteomics, to secure its share of the omics hype. Researchers look to proteomics to deliver on the promise to assess the viability of drug targets for monitoring disease progression, optimizing disease managemen ...

The Drug Class Impact of Major Patent Expirations
Table of Contents Published: 2009/03
The increasing pressure on physicians to prescribe generics rather than other patent-protected agents within the same drug class presents a signifi cant threat to the pharmaceutical industry. ...

Will Emerging Agents Disrupt the Psoriatic Arthritis Market?
Table of Contents Published: 2009/03
Surveyed rheumatologists are open to prescribing emerging agents for psoriatic arthritis (PsA) patients upon approval. That is good news for the PsA patients who fail to respond to TNF-ƒ¿ inhibitors; treatment options are limited for these patients. ...

Narrowing the Innovation Gap with Fragment-Based Drug Discovery and Design
Table of Contents Published: 2009/02
Fragment-based drug discovery and design technology could dramatically improve the prospects of identifying suitable development compounds and feed withering clinical pipelines. These technologies have already generated several interesting compounds. If s ...

SPECIAL REPORT: State of the Pharmaceutical Industry, 2009
Table of Contents Published: 2009/02
Change will be the only certainty in 2009 as economic reality dictates hard decisions and new approaches for the pharma industry. Disruptive change - the kind that happens once in a couple of decades or longer - can be healthy. ...

Strategic Overview of Pricing and Reimbursement in the Major Markets
Table of Contents Published: 2009/02
Around the world, the market success of branded drugs is influenced by changes in healthcare systems and the growing role of payers - and at this point in time, economic concerns are prompting waves of change, and payers are increasingly balking at health ...

Are There Changes Ahead for the Generalized Anxiety Disorder Market?
Table of Contents Published: 2009/01
Generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) is a prevalent psychiatric disorder in the major pharmaceutical markets, and drug therapy is considered the most effective treatment. The therapy market for GAD is crowded and includes many generic players, creating a di ...

It's All About the Biomarkers: How 2008's Biomarker-Based Partnering Is Driving Personalized Medicine
Table of Contents Published: 2009/01
Biomarkers - physical characteristics that are objectively evaluated as indicators of normal biological processes, pathogenic processes, or pharmacological responses to therapeutic intervention - are high-valueadded commodities in drug and diagnostics dis ...

Market Access, Pricing, and Reimbursement News in the Fourth Quarter of 2008
Table of Contents Published: 2009/01
In an increasingly hostile economic climate, governments and other payers are redoubling their efforts to curb their pharmaceutical expenditures. In addition to measures to maximize the use of inexpensive generics, payers are seeking new ways to contain t ...

AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE SERIES: Strategies for Success in the Challenging Sjogren's Syndrome Market
Table of Contents Published: 2008/12
Sjogren' s syndrome (SS) is one of the most prevalent autoimmune diseases. SS has no cure, and most rheumatologists rely on polypharmacy to suffi ciently control patients' symptoms. New agents in development for SS offer novel mechanisms of action for the ...

Autoimmune Disease Series: Will Biologics Emerge as New Treatments for Reactive Arthritis?
Table of Contents Published: 2008/12
Reactive arthritis (ReA), a seronegative spondyloarthropathy that is believed to be partially autoimmune and triggered by the presence of a bacterial infection, is rare. For that reason, along with the availability of generic agents and the relatively ben ...

Brands & Strategies: Chemotherapy-Induced Nausea and Vomiting
Table of Contents Published: 2008/12
The branded chemotherapy-induced nausea and vomiting (CINV) market will grow at a compound annual rate of 6.9%, from $610.3 million in 2007 to $853.1 million in 2012. Sales of the serotonin receptor antagonists will decline sharply because of generic comp ...

Brands & Strategies: Non-Insulin Antidiabetics
Table of Contents Published: 2008/12
The type 2 diabetes branded drug market was worth $7.7 billion in 2007 and is set to undergo robust annualized growth of 5.7% over 2007-2012, reaching sales of $10.1 billion in 2012. ...

Brands & Strategies: Rheumatoid Arthritis
Table of Contents Published: 2008/12
The RA market will see significant growth over our five-year forecast period, reaching $11 billion in 2012. Five new biological agents will join the six currently marketed biological therapies, heightening competition in an increasingly crowded market. ...

Emerging Blockbusters: 2009's Most Promising Drugs and the Future of the Blockbuster Model
Table of Contents Published: 2008/12
In 2007, 93 blockbuster drugs (drugs with more than $1 billion in annual sales) were on the market and generated more than $220 billion in revenue. These high-value products are fundamental to the success and growth of the pharmaceutical industry, and the ...

Enabling Oncology Diagnostics: Predictive Biomarkers Based on Genes, Proteins, and Pathways
Table of Contents Published: 2008/12
In efforts to fi nd new ways to transform the drug development paradigm and the clinical management of cancer, scientists are increasingly turning to discovering cancer biomarkers and developing targeted therapies. The infusion of novel methods, technolog ...

Pharmaceutical Pricing and Reimbursement in the United Kingdom, 2008
Table of Contents Published: 2008/12
The pharmaceutical industry has long criticized the slow uptake of new medicines in the United Kingdom. Beginning January 1, 2009, the U.K. government plans to implement measures to accelerate and widen access to innovative drugs. However, the pharmaceuti ...

Pricing and Reimbursement of Fixed-Dose Combination Drugs in the United States
Table of Contents Published: 2008/12
Fixed-dose combinations (FDCs) of prescription drugs can prove clinically useful where polypharmacy is required - for example, in the management of HIV, asthma, and cardiometabolic disorders such as diabetes, dyslipidemia, and hypertension. ...

Special Report: Lessons Learned in the Pharma Industry, 2008
Table of Contents Published: 2008/12
2008 will come to be known as the year when real change started to take hold across the pharmaceutical industry. While some company leaderships may have been reluctant to alter the status quo in past years, 2009 looms as a new beginning to invest in those ...

U.S. Pharma Pricing Strategies: Case Studies and Future Considerations
Table of Contents Published: 2008/12
How should a company price its drug when generic competition is about to impact a drug class? How signifi cant a role does price play in distinguishing drugs in a crowded marketplace? In this report, we examine three common small-molecule drug classes and ...

What Is the Future Role of Predictive Safety Biomarkers in Drug Development?
Table of Contents Published: 2008/12
Predictive safety biomarkers are categorized by their target action - predicting drug toxicity, selecting patients for treatment, or predicting treatment effi cacy. Increasingly, diagnostics developers and pharmaceutical companies are collaborating on bio ...

What to Do When the R&D Pipeline Runs Dry
Table of Contents Published: 2008/12
The pharmaceutical industry has been coping with declining R&D productivity for more than two decades and is under signifi cant pressure to improve its bottom line and growth prospects. Industry stakeholders are seriously discussing whether companies shou ...

Brands & Strategies: Lipid-Modifying Agents
Table of Contents Published: 2008/11
The lipid-modifying drug market is highly competitive, currently comprising at least 14 brands in seven major drug classes, and extremely lucrative, with major-market sales surpassing $24 billion in 2007. However, we forecast sales to decline by 4% annual ...

Fulfilling the Promise of Personalized Medicine Through Next-Generation Sequencing
Table of Contents Published: 2008/11
The pharmaceutical industry has long criticized the slow uptake of new medicines in the United Kingdom. Beginning January 1, 2009, the U.K. government plans to implement measures to accelerate and widen access to innovative drugs. However, the pharmaceuti ...

Meeting the Challenges of Manufacturing Biosimilars
Table of Contents Published: 2008/11
Branded biologics have, until recently, been immune to generics competition; however, the approval of biosimilars in Europe heralds a changing landscape. Legislation enabling the approval of biosimilars is stalled in the U.S. Congress but could pass in 20 ...

Tropical Diseases: Treatment, Prevention, and Market Opportunities
Table of Contents Published: 2008/11
Increased travel and environmental changes are likely to accelerate the spread of tropical infectious diseases such as malaria, dengue fever, yellow fever, and Japanese encephalitis. To stop this advance, more-effective treatments and vaccines are urgentl ...

Value-Added Pharma: How to Accomplish the Impossible
Table of Contents Published: 2008/11
The pharma industry is constantly being told that it needs to improve its bottom line and the way it does business. ...

AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE SERIES: Systemic Sclerosis--Novel Treatment Approaches on the Horizon
Table of Contents Published: 2008/10
Treatment of systemic sclerosis is complex because it involves multiple organs and its cause remains elusive. Current therapy options treat symptoms, and many patients are required to take multiple therapies. ...

Brands & Strategies: Asthma
Table of Contents Published: 2008/10
The asthma market is saturated with numerous drugs that effectively treat the majority of patients. In 2007, asthma sales in the seven major markets under study (United States, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, United Kingdom, and Japan) totaled $10.9 billio ...

Developments in Early-Stage Toxicity Prediction
Table of Contents Published: 2008/10
Drug toxicity is a major cause of costly late-stage development failures and devastating market withdrawals. ...

Pharmaceutical Pricing, Reimbursement, and Prescribing News in the Third Quarter of 2008
Table of Contents Published: 2008/10
Governments in Europe and Japan have long exercised strict control over prices in their national pharmaceutical markets, and they give every indication of tightening their grip on drug manufacturers. ...

Pharma's Changing Business Strategies: Five Deadly Pharma Sins
Table of Contents Published: 2008/10
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SPECIAL REPORT: Patterns of Generic Erosion: An International Chartbook, 2008
Table of Contents Published: 2008/10
Healthcare payers around the world are desperate to fi nd ways to contain pharmaceutical expenditures without compromising the quality of the services they provide ...

Effective Drug Life Cycle Management: The Crucial Interaction Between Brand Life Span and Market Life Cycle
Table of Contents Published: 2008/09
Pharmaceutical companies recognize the importance of life cycle management but often focus on their own brands without taking note of the all-important market life cycle. Companies need to understand how the three stages of the brand life span relate to t ...

How to Integrate Personalized Medicine into Business Strategies
Table of Contents Published: 2008/09
A growing awareness is taking hold across the pharmaceutical industry: what was once impossible - tailoring treatment to specifi c groups of patients rather than to the population as a whole - is becoming possible. ...

Pharma and the Feds: Key Government Activities and How They Affect the Biopharmaceutical Industry
Table of Contents Published: 2008/09
This is a critical time in U.S. history for examination of the delivery of healthcare services. Some 47 million people in the United States lack healthcare coverage; the country spends $2.2 trillion annually on healthcare; the United States ranks 37th in ...

Women's Health Series: Endometriosis--How Will New Therapies Compare with Current Market Leaders?
Table of Contents Published: 2008/09
Endometriosis is the cause of chronic pain and potential infertility for many women. However, no new agent to treat the disease has emerged in more than ten years, and the most common treatments employ mechanisms of action that have been available for sev ...

Women's Health Series: How Have New Oral Contraceptives Changed the Market?
Table of Contents Published: 2008/09
The oral contraceptive market is mature, with a high level of competition and a stable patient population. Dozens of oral contraceptives are available worldwide; most are comparable in terms of effi cacy in their primary indication (preventing pregnancy) ...

Evolving Trends in Licensing: Strategies for Building and Retaining Value in Biotechnology Alliances
Table of Contents Published: 2008/08
As the biotechnology industry continues to evolve and mature, many biotech companies are gaining more leverage in negotiating alliances. We analyzed recent deals and interviewed industry executives and experts to gain insight into current alliances and li ...

Key Markets in Medicare Part D
Table of Contents Published: 2008/08
Medicare Part D, the outpatient prescription drug benefit introduced in January 2006, had an immediate impact on the U.S. pharmaceutical market and now accounts for almost one-fifth of prescription drug sales. Cardiovascular diseases, metabolic disorders, ...

Lessons Learned from the Current Crop of Biotech Startups
Table of Contents Published: 2008/08
The initial public offering (IPO) market for biotech and specialty pharma companies has been nearly lifeless in 2008. Investment bankers are unimpressed by the performance of these companies, and money managers are reluctant to support a negative trend. T ...

Pharmaceutical Pricing and Reimbursement in Spain, 2008
Table of Contents Published: 2008/08
In recent years, Spain has rapidly increased its spending on healthcare, and pharmaceuticals account for a larger share of healthcare expenditures in Spain than in most other European countries. However, Spanish drug prices are among the lowest in Europe ...

Women's Health Series: Is There Change Ahead for the Female Infertility Market?
Table of Contents Published: 2008/08
Mounting evidence that a growing number of women are choosing to delay childbirth into their mid-tolate thirties highlights a significant opportunity for new and efficacious infertility treatments. Despite the increasing level of need, the treatment of in ...

Dealmaking and Financing: Mergers and Acquisitions in Key Markets
Table of Contents Published: 2008/07
Billion-dollar deals. Hostile takeovers. Reverse mergers. Bidding wars. All of these are signs that Big Pharma is hungry for deals and is aggressively seeking, assessing, and consummating alliances on several fronts. ...

Key Issues to Consider When Bringing Biologics to Market in Europe and Japan
Table of Contents Published: 2008/07
In the past 25 years, more than 100 recombinant proteins and MAbs have reached the global market. ...

Noninvasive Approaches Offer Substantial Market Potential in Liver Disease Diagnostics
Table of Contents Published: 2008/07
Novel noninvasive liver diagnostics are poised to revolutionize the diagnosis of liver disease and increase drug-treatment rates in this indication. ...

Pharmaceutical Pricing and Reimbursement News in the Second Quarter of 2008
Table of Contents Published: 2008/07
The United States stands in stark contrast to Europe and Japan in terms of the freedom that manufacturers have to set-and increase-the prices of branded drugs in the U.S. market. ...

R&D Update: What's on the Horizon for the Panic Disorder Market?
Table of Contents Published: 2008/07
Panic disorder (PD) affects a large number of people and has a large diagnosed and drug-treated population. ...

SPECIAL REPORT: Key Pricing and Reimbursement Trends for CNS Drugs
Table of Contents Published: 2008/07
Drugs for disorders of the central nervous system (CNS) form the second-ranked therapeutic area in terms of global pharmaceutical sales, reaching total retail sales in 2006 of $73.4 billion-equivalent to 19% of total pharmaceutical sales. ...

Target Product Profiles: Physician Insights on Key Attributes - Multiple Sclerosis, A drug for the treatment of multiple sclerosis (chronic progressive) that reduces by 50% the proportion of patients who become wheelchair-bound over 36 months.
Table of Contents Published: 2008/07
Our Target Product Profi les qualitatively predict the market potential of a drug fulfi lling a key unmet need. ...

How Have Safety Concerns and New Warnings Affected the Anemia Market?
Table of Contents Published: 2008/06
The recombinant erythropoietin-stimulating agents (ESAs) revolutionized treatment of severe anemias, and the anemia market prospered-until accumulating data indicated that ESA treatment may be detrimental to patient survival. ...

Improving Return on Investment in Pharmaceutical Marketing
Table of Contents Published: 2008/06
Pharmaceutical marketing is in trouble-campaigns are not as effective as they should be, and costs have spiraled out of control. Marketing expenditures are the single largest corporate investment at most pharmaceutical companies and are running at almost ...

ORPHAN DISEASE SERIES - Cystic Fibrosis: Will New Agents Emerge as First-Line Therapies
Table of Contents Published: 2008/06
The cystic fi brosis (CF) market is poised for signifi cant change. The next generation of CF treatments all target the central mechanism responsible for organ damage in CF. ...

ORPHAN DISEASE SERIES - Glaucoma: Can Orphan-Drug Status Offer an Entry into a Mature Market?
Table of Contents Published: 2008/06
The glaucoma market has not seen any new mechanisms for treatment since the launch of prostaglandin analogues in the mid 1990s. ...

Pharmaceutical Pricing and Reimbursement in France, 2008
Table of Contents Published: 2008/06
France invests heavily in maintaining its outstanding universal healthcare system. However, drug prices in France-already among the lowest in Europe-are declining as a result of tough cost-containment measures targeted primarily at pharmaceutical companie ...

Product Life Spans: Trends in the Quality and Staying Power of New Products
Table of Contents Published: 2008/06
The commercial potential of products in development is vitally import to the pharmaceutical industry, which is now beset with productivity concerns, looming patent expiries, and declining growth rates. ...

SPECIAL REPORT - Fueling the Drug Discovery Engine: Biotech Investment and Business Trends
Table of Contents Published: 2008/06
Promising new therapies and drug discovery approaches are within reach, but the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries face unprecedented scientifi c, business, and regulatory challenges. ...

SPECIAL REPORT: 2008 Chartbook of International Pharmaceutical Prices
Table of Contents Published: 2008/06
In an increasingly globalized pharmaceutical market, drug pricing and reimbursement policies differ markedly among countries. Payers jealously guard their authority to set prices, and both they and government authorities exert growing pressure on manufact ...

The Landscape of Companion Diagnostics: Challenges, Opportunities, and Future Trends
Table of Contents Published: 2008/06
Diagnostics can be used to identify subgroups of patients who may or may not benefi t from a companion drug, who may have adverse reactions to that drug, or who may require different doses of that drug because of their particular metabolic activity. ...

Asia: Threat or Opportunity?
Table of Contents Published: 2008/05
Asian economic might is growing, and the Asian pharmaceutical markets and industry are growing along with it. ...

Blood Biomarkers and Beyond: Biomarker and Diagnostic Opportunities in Cardiovascular Disease
Table of Contents Published: 2008/05
Demographic and cost data provide clear reasons for pharmaceutical industry investment in CVD biomarkers and diagnostics. ...

Emerging Diagnostic Technologies for Use in Psychiatric Indications
Table of Contents Published: 2008/05
In this report, we discuss the treatment challenges that confront physicians and patients and review current and emerging diagnostic tests that are expected to change the way in which psychiatric diseases are diagnosed. ...

Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder: Strategies to Maximize Opportunities in a Small Market
Table of Contents Published: 2008/05
Although the obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) market is small and OCD diagnosis rates are low, this market is characterized by substantial unmet need and commercial opportunity. ...

ORPHAN DISEASE SERIES - Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis: Strategies for Drug Developers
Table of Contents Published: 2008/05
Only one drug is approved for the treatment of ALS, and its only benefi t is a modest increase in survival time. ...

Pharmaceutical Pricing and Reimbursement in Italy, 2008
Table of Contents Published: 2008/05
The country' s leading pharmaceutical-industry association has warned the Italian government that without a radical change in Italian pharmaceutical policy, the industry' s competitiveness in the global market will be severely compromised, and Italy will ...

Pharmaceutical Pricing and Reimbursement in Japan, 2008
Table of Contents Published: 2008/05
The pharmaceutical industry faces challenging times in the Japanese market. The government has expressed its desire to reward the development of innovative medicines and has promised more-generous price premiums for innovative drugs. ...

Biologics Pipelines: Who Has the Next Promising Recombinant Proteins?
Table of Contents Published: 2008/04
Therapeutic recombinant protein development has added a broad range of new products to the pharmaceutical armamentarium and led to a burgeoning biotechnology industry that is growing much faster than the smallmolecule- based pharmaceutical industry. New m ...

Harnessing Biomarker Research in Academic Institutions for Use in Industry
Table of Contents Published: 2008/04
Academic research institutions are a rich source of technology for commercial biomarker development. Some of today' s most dynamic biomarker discoveries originated from academic-industrial relationships, resulting in millions of dollars for universities a ...

Pharmaceutical Pricing, Reimbursement, and Prescribing News in the First Quarter of 2008
Table of Contents Published: 2008/04
This report provides Pharmaceutical Pricing, Reimbursement, and Prescribing News in the First Quarter of 2008. ...

Target Product Profiles: Physician Insights on Key Attributes - Pulmonary Hypertension, A therapy that improves 6-minute walking distance from baseline by a greater percentage than bosentan at 16 weeks.
Table of Contents Published: 2008/04
Our Target Product Profiles qualitatively predict the market potential of a drug fulfilling a key unmet need. This information is critical for evaluating the impact of clinical attributes on physician prescribing of emerging agents, whether the emerging d ...

Targeting Kinases for Drug Discovery
Table of Contents Published: 2008/04
Protein kinases - intracellular enzymes that modulate cellular functions - play a pivotal role in the signal transduction processes that regulate many key biological processes. Abnormalities in these signal transduction pathways are implicated in the etio ...

Biologics Pipelines: Who Has the Next Promising Monoclonal Antibodies?
Table of Contents Published: 2008/03
Monoclonal antibodies (MAbs) are very hot commodities in today' s pharmaceutical marketplace, and in recent years, the growth in the number of MAbs under development has far outpaced the growth of other types of drugs. ...

Can a New Antidepressant Establish Itself in a Highly Competitive Market?
Table of Contents Published: 2008/03
With the antidepressant market approaching its saturation point, emerging agents face increasing diffi culty capturing market share from the multitude of already available branded and generic drugs. ...

Chronic Organ Transplant Rejection: Opportunities Await Improved Therapies
Table of Contents Published: 2008/03
The organ transplant market, though growing only slowly in recent years, offers substantial opportunities for drug developers. ...

Dealmaking and Financing: Buying in Innovation
Table of Contents Published: 2008/03
Pharmaceutical companies are on the hunt for new product and technology opportunities to augment their product development pipelines. ...

How to Get Ahead with Pharmacogenomics
Table of Contents Published: 2008/03
The blockbuster business model is, of course, still relevant to the pharmaceutical industry, but at the same time, companies must adopt technologies that will enable them to develop better drugs-value-added drugs that can command the prices capable of pro ...

Key Trends in the Political and Reimbursement Environment for Cancer Drugs
Table of Contents Published: 2008/03
Cancer therapies make up one of the fastest-growing therapeutic areas in the global pharmaceutical market. IMS Health expects global sales of cancer therapies to more than double in just four years, exceeding $65 billion in 2010. ...

Navigating the Drug Discovery Landscape: A Strategic Overview of Pharmaceutical R&D
Table of Contents Published: 2008/03
Pharmaceutical companies must fi nd successful strategies for future drug discovery. Increased market pressures, looming drug patent expirations, and dramatically increasing drug development costs have caused pharmaceutical companies to search for new way ...

SPECIAL REPORT: Pharmaceutical Pricing and Reimbursement in Germany, 2008
Table of Contents Published: 2008/03
Over the past two decades, the German pharmaceutical market has undergone a greater number of radical reforms than any other major drug market. ...

Target Product Profiles: Physician Insights on Key Attributes - Acute Ischemic Stroke, IV reperfusion agent approved for use within six hours of acute ischemic stroke.
Table of Contents Published: 2008/03
The second section, Target Product Profile Summary, begins with an overview of the drug development landscape and the attributes on which investigators are focusing. Based on this analysis, as well as the clinical end points that practicing physicians say ...

Target Product Profiles: Physician Insights on Key Attributes - Alzheimer's Disease
Table of Contents Published: 2008/03
Our Target Product Profi les qualitatively predict the market potential of a drug fulfi lling a key unmet need. ...

Target Product Profiles: Physician Insights on Key Attributes - Asthma, An inhaled drug with a novel mechanism of action for the treatment of persistent asthma
Table of Contents Published: 2008/03
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Target Product Profiles: Physician Insights on Key Attributes - Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia, A drug with lower incidence of sexual side effects than tamsulosin for the treatment of benign prostatic hyperplasia.
Table of Contents Published: 2008/03
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Target Product Profiles: Physician Insights on Key Attributes - Bipolar Disorder, A therapy that carries a lower risk of weight gain than quetiapine and has both antimanic and antidepressant effects for the treatment of bipolar disorder.
Table of Contents Published: 2008/03
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Target Product Profiles: Physician Insights on Key Attributes - Chemotherapy-Induced Nausea and Vomiting
Table of Contents Published: 2008/03
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Target Product Profiles: Physician Insights on Key Attributes - Colon Cancer (Stage III), A therapy that improves disease-free survival over FOLFOX4 at three years for the treatment of stage III colon cancer
Table of Contents Published: 2008/03
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Target Product Profiles: Physician Insights on Key Attributes - Colorectal Cancer (Stage IV), A therapy that improves median overall survival better than the IFL plus bevacizumab regimen for the first-line treatment of stage IV colorectal cancer
Table of Contents Published: 2008/03
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Target Product Profiles: Physician Insights on Key Attributes - Community-Acquired Pneumonia, An antibiotic with targeted activity against respiratory pathogens that does not affect bowel flora for the treatment of community-acquired pneumonia.
Table of Contents Published: 2008/03
Our Target Product Profi les qualitatively predict the market potential of a drug fulfi lling a key unmet need. ...

Target Product Profiles: Physician Insights on Key Attributes - Crohn's Disease, A parenterally dosed therapy that induces closure and healing of fistulas in a greater percentage of Crohn's disease patients than infliximab does.
Table of Contents Published: 2008/03
Our Target Product Profi les qualitatively predict the market potential of a drug fulfi lling a key unmet need. ...

Target Product Profiles: Physician Insights on Key Attributes - Diabetic Nephropathy, A therapy that is more effective than irbesartan in inducing regression from microalbuminuria to normoalbuminuria for the treatment of diabetic nephropathy
Table of Contents Published: 2008/03
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Target Product Profiles: Physician Insights on Key Attributes - Diabetic Neuropathy, An agent offering pain relief superior to that of pregabalin
Table of Contents Published: 2008/03
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Target Product Profiles: Physician Insights on Key Attributes - Diabetic Retinopathy
Table of Contents Published: 2008/03
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Target Product Profiles: Physician Insights on Key Attributes - Dyslipidemia, An HDL-raising drug that has a lower discontinuation rate than extended-release (ER) niacin for the treatment of dyslipidemia.
Table of Contents Published: 2008/03
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Target Product Profiles: Physician Insights on Key Attributes - Fibromyalgia
Table of Contents Published: 2008/03
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Target Product Profiles: Physician Insights on Key Attributes - Hepatitis C Virus
Table of Contents Published: 2008/03
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Target Product Profiles: Physician Insights on Key Attributes - Insomnia, A hypnotic that is free of next-day residual effects for the treatment of insomnia
Table of Contents Published: 2008/03
Our Target Product Profi les qualitatively predict the market potential of a drug fulfi lling a key unmet need. ...

Target Product Profiles: Physician Insights on Key Attributes - Major Depressive Disorder, A therapy that can prevent recurrence of major depressive disorder in a greater percentage of patients than venlafaxine XR does at one year.
Table of Contents Published: 2008/03
Our Target Product Profi les qualitatively predict the market potential of a drug fulfi lling a key unmet need. ...

Target Product Profiles: Physician Insights on Key Attributes - Mild Cognitive Impairment, A therapy that improves ADAS-cog score from baseline at 12 months for the treatment of mild cognitive impairment.
Table of Contents Published: 2008/03
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Target Product Profiles: Physician Insights on Key Attributes - Multiple Myeloma
Table of Contents Published: 2008/03
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Target Product Profiles: Physician Insights on Key Attributes - Non-Small-Cell Lung Cancer (Advanced)
Table of Contents Published: 2008/03
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Target Product Profiles: Physician Insights on Key Attributes - Non-Small-Cell Lung Cancer (Locoregionally Advanced)
Table of Contents Published: 2008/03
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Target Product Profiles: Physician Insights on Key Attributes - Obesity, A therapy that is more effective than orlistat at inducing weight loss for the treatment of obesity
Table of Contents Published: 2008/03
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Target Product Profiles: Physician Insights on Key Attributes - Ovarian Cancer (Advanced), An agent or regimen that offers increased median overall survival compared with paclitaxel/carboplatin for the treatment of advanced ovarian cancer
Table of Contents Published: 2008/03
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Target Product Profiles: Physician Insights on Key Attributes - Pancreatic Cancer (Advanced), An emerging therapy that improves median overall survival better than the gemcitabine plus erlotinib regimen for the treatment of advanced pancreatic cancer
Table of Contents Published: 2008/03
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Target Product Profiles: Physician Insights on Key Attributes - Peripheral Arterial Disease - A therapy that reduces the need for revascularization by more than 20% for the treatment of peripheral arterial disease (intermittent claudication).
Table of Contents Published: 2008/03
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Target Product Profiles: Physician Insights on Key Attributes - Post-Myocardial Infarction, A therapy that, combined with aspirin, causes less major bleeding than the combination of clopidogrel and aspirin for the treatment of postmyocardial infarction.
Table of Contents Published: 2008/03
Our Target Product Profi les qualitatively predict the market potential of a drug fulfi lling a key unmet need. ...

Target Product Profiles: Physician Insights on Key Attributes - Psoriasis, A systemic agent that induces 75% improvement in PASI scores at 12 weeks in at least 30% more patients than etanercept for the treatment of psoriasis.
Table of Contents Published: 2008/03
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Target Product Profiles: Physician Insights on Key Attributes - Rheumatoid Arthritis
Table of Contents Published: 2008/03
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Target Product Profiles: Physician Insights on Key Attributes - Type 2 Diabetes, A weight-neutral oral antidiabetic drug for the treatment of type 2 diabetes
Table of Contents Published: 2008/03
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Target Product Profiles: Physician Insights on Key Attributes - Urge Urinary Incontinence
Table of Contents Published: 2008/03
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Target Product Profiles: Physician Insights on Key Attributes: Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease
Table of Contents Published: 2008/03
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Target Product Profiles: Physician Insights on Key Attributes: Hypertension - An oral drug that reduces left ventricular mass index significantly more than valsartan
Table of Contents Published: 2008/03
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Treating COPD Comorbidities: A Market Opportunity for Systemic Anti-Inflammatory Agents?
Table of Contents Published: 2008/03
Research data on COPD increasingly point to systemic infl ammation as the cause of many of the severe comorbidities associated with the disease. ...

What Strategies Will Yield Novel Treatments for Autoimmune Disease?
Table of Contents Published: 2008/03
More than 80 autoimmune disorders have been identifi ed, all involving aberrant immune responses to self-antigens. ...

Brands & Strategies: Atypical Antipsychotics
Table of Contents Published: 2008/02
The atypical antipsychotics market in the United States, Europe, and Japan, valued at an estimated $15.9 billion in sales at ex-manufacturer level in 2007, is expected to expand to over $17.8 billion by 2011, before shrinking to $13.5 billion in 2012. ...

Diagnostic Imaging Market: Recent Advances and Future Trends
Table of Contents Published: 2008/02
Scientific and technological developments are making the fi eld of diagnostic imaging a growth industry. In 2007, the U.S. market for diagnostic imaging technologies was valued at more than $7 billion, and it is expected to exceed $8 billion by 2011. ...

How Overcoming the Challenge of Biomarker Validation Can Pay Off for Drug and Diagnostic Developers
Table of Contents Published: 2008/02
This report presents How Overcoming the Challenge of Biomarker Validation Can Pay Off for Drug and Diagnostic Developers. ...

Pharmaceutical Pricing and Reimbursement in the United States, 2008
Table of Contents Published: 2008/02
The United States dominates the world' s pharmaceutical markets, not least because it offers pharmaceutical companies a speedy, effi cient drug registration process and unrivaled freedom to negotiate drug prices and reimbursement-but a rising chorus of co ...

Type 2 Diabetes Market Dynamics: Impact of Januvia and Other DPP-IV Inhibitors
Table of Contents Published: 2008/02
Despite the variety of effi cacious oral antidiabetics available to treat type 2 diabetes-many of them available generically-the unmet need in this disease remains high. ...

Pharmaceutical Pricing, Reimbursement, and Prescribing News in the Fourth Quarter of 2007
Table of Contents Published: 2008/01
The fourth quarter of 2007 was fairly quiet in the pricing and reimbursement arena. In the United States, the presidential election, legislation in California, and a new initiative from health plans focused attention on the uninsured and universal coverag ...

Realizing the Promise of Therapeutic RNAi: Emerging Strategies for RNAi Delivery
Table of Contents Published: 2008/01
The discovery of RNA interference (RNAi) has renewed interest in developing nucleic acid drugs based on targeting messenger RNAs (mRNAs). This fi eld of research offers the potential to produce low-dose, nontoxic RNAi agents to treat important diseases. ...

SPECIAL REPORT: State of the Pharmaceutical Industry, 2008
Table of Contents Published: 2008/01
This report provides SPECIAL REPORT: State of the Pharmaceutical Industry, 2008. ...

Beyond Disease Management: Strategies for Improving Patient Care and Cutting Costs
Table of Contents Published: 2007/12
Disease management has become a common term in the U.S. health care system. Yet, the more widely the term has been adopted, the more diffuse the defi nition of this health care strategy has become. ...

Brands & Strategies: Colorectal Cancer
Table of Contents Published: 2007/12
In 2006, the CRC market, valued at over $7 billion in the US, Europe, and Japan, was led by the chemotherapeutic platinum agent, Sanofi-Aventis' Eloxatin. Five existing drug classes, including the recently introduced targeted EGFR and VEGFR inhibitors, ma ...

Brands & Strategies: Non-Small-Cell Lung Cancer
Table of Contents Published: 2007/12
In 2006, the NSCLC market, valued at over $3 billion in the US, Europe, and Japan, was led by the chemotherapeutic taxane, Sanofi-Aventis' Taxotere. Five existing drug classes, including the recently introduced targeted EGFR and VEGFR inhibitors, make for ...

Emerging Drug Targets in Alzheimer's Disease
Table of Contents Published: 2007/12
The lack of effective treatments for Alzheimer' s disease (AD) and an aging population create an enormous opportunity for disease-modifying drugs. Competition to develop new drugs for AD is in fact fi erce, and the effi cacy bar for current AD therapies i ...

HIV Vaccine Update: R&D Innovation Critical in the Wake of Recent Setbacks
Table of Contents Published: 2007/12
Despite 25 years of extensive research, an HIV vaccine remains an elusive target. More-innovative approaches to vaccine development are urgently needed. ...

International Trends in the Use of Health Technology Assessment
Table of Contents Published: 2007/12
This report provides International Trends in the Use of Health Technology Assessment. ...

Licensing Strategies for Accessing Biomarker Technologies
Table of Contents Published: 2007/12
Biomarkers play an increasingly important role in drug discovery and development. A large number of companies have emerged that provide various biomarker-related tools and services. ...

Managed Care Industry in the United States: Healthy and Hungry for Continued Growth
Table of Contents Published: 2007/12
This report provides Managed Care Industry in the United States: Healthy and Hungry for Continued Growth. ...

Next-Generation Biologics: Improving on Monoclonal Antibodies
Table of Contents Published: 2007/12
Monoclonal antibodies (MAbs) have become the most successful platform for targeted biotherapeutics, demonstrating high affi nity and specifi city for their target and considerably lower toxicity than small-molecule drugs. ...

Pharmaceutical Pricing, Reimbursement, and Prescribing News in the Third Quarter of 2007
Table of Contents Published: 2007/12
In this report, we focus on Q3 measures that health care payers are using to curb their drug expenditures and to improve patient access to medications. ...

Preventing Cardiovascular Events: Will HDL Therapeutics Change the Treatment Paradigm?
Table of Contents Published: 2007/12
The notion that raising HDL cholesterol levels can reduce the risk of coronary heart disease is not a new one, yet drug developers have been continually foiled in their attempts to capitalize on this fi nding-as illustrated by Pfi zer' s discontinuation o ...

Pricing and Reimbursement of Next Generation Diagnostics in the United States
Table of Contents Published: 2007/12
Next-generation diagnostics promise to offer an enhanced ability to diagnose disease and to provide moretargeted drug therapy to patients. ...

R&D Update: How Can Companies Improve on Existing Antiangiogenesis Agents?
Table of Contents Published: 2007/12
Antiangiogenic drugs represent a new class of antitumor therapeutics that will be used along with cytotoxic agents, targeted agents, and immunomodulatory agents to fi ght cancer. ...

SPECIAL REPORT: 2007 Industry Dynamics - Lessons Learned
Table of Contents Published: 2007/12
In this year-end retrospective report, we contemplate the importance of key events and achievements in the industry. ...

SPECIAL REPORT: Blockbusters Then and Now--Trends for Billion-Dollar Drugs
Table of Contents Published: 2007/12
Small-molecule pharmaceutical manufacturers have had a rough year: 2007 saw the abrupt ending of the development of many highly anticipated blockbuster compounds. ...

Success Principles: Making Pharmaceutical Business Development Fit for Purpose
Table of Contents Published: 2007/12
In today' s competitive and evolving pharmaceutical landscape, Business Development is a strategic lifeline for all companies. The more successful Business Development departments share factors that clearly distinguish them from the pack. ...

The Avastin Juggernaut: Transformation of the Age-Related Macular Degeneration Market
Table of Contents Published: 2007/12
The AMD market is witnessing an unusual scenario in which two agents from the same company are competing for the market-leading position. Although Genentech' s Lucentis is an effi cacious therapy approved for AMD, Genentech' s Avastin is receiving signifi ...

Brands & Strategies: Insomnia
Table of Contents Published: 2007/11
The insomnia market, valued at almost $3.9 billion in 2006 in the United States, Europe, and Japan, is expected to expand to over $5.2 billion by 2011. ...

Business Strategies for Different Types of Biogenerics
Table of Contents Published: 2007/11
The rush to develop and market biogenerics has begun. While the United States dragged its feet drafting legislation to codify issues surrounding biogenerics, biogenerics companies have successfully brought products to several other markets around the worl ...

Challenges and Opportunities in Developing Chemopreventive Agents
Table of Contents Published: 2007/11
During the past 30 years, researchers' understanding of cancer progression has increased tremendously. This critical development has allowed for the possibility of developing cancer chemopreventive agents. ...

Influencing the Development of NICE Technology Appraisals and Guidelines: Lessons for the Pharmaceutical Industry
Table of Contents Published: 2007/11
The U.K. National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) is increasingly influencing the fate of drugs, other health care technologies, and general clinical practice in many countries. Pharmaceutical and device manufacturers will greatly bene ...

Nicotinic Receptor Agonists for Treating Diseases of Cognitive Dysfunction
Table of Contents Published: 2007/11
Nicotine has long been known to improve cognitive function, but its adverse effects make it problematic as a treatment for diseases of cognitive dysfunction. Recent research has revealed that certain subtypes of nicotinic acetylcholinesterase receptors (n ...

Outsourcing Drug Discovery: China and India
Table of Contents Published: 2007/11
Driven by the need to improve R&D productivity and effi ciency and the desire to access untapped markets, global pharmaceutical companies have increasingly offshored and outsourced operations to CROs in China and India. A wide array of factors, however, c ...

Brands & Strategies: Osteoporosis
Table of Contents Published: 2007/10
The osteoporosis market has traditionally been dominated by the bisphosphonate drug class, championed by Merck' s once-weekly Fosamax (alendronate) and Procter & Gamble[P&G]/Sanofi-Aventis' Actonel (risedronate). This will change dramatically over the for ...

Brands & Strategies: Type 2 Diabetes
Table of Contents Published: 2007/10
In 2006, the type 2 diabetes market, valued at over $12 billion in the US, Europe, and Japan, was dominated by the two blockbuster PPAR-gamma agonists, ...

Can the Use of Biomarkers as Surrogate End Points Stimulate the Drug-Development Lull
Table of Contents Published: 2007/10
In this report, we examine the ways in which biomarkers and innovative trial designs that optimize the use of biomarkers promise to provide biopharmaceutical developers with a competitive advantage. ...

How Insulin Resistance Diagnostics Can Expand the Market for Insulin-Sensitizing Agents
Table of Contents Published: 2007/10
Insulin resistance is a highly prevalent metabolic condition fraught with unmet need. Although several diagnostics are in use, not one is ideal; a standardized, simple tool for measuring IR in clinical practice is needed. ...

How to Avoid Health Care Rationing: Don't Restrict Supply, Manage Demand
Table of Contents Published: 2007/10
Health care reform that is aimed at managing demand-as opposed to rationing supply-is a much more compelling answer to today' s seemingly intractable problem of fi nding the necessary resources to meet the growing demands of health care. ...

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