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Patient Recruitment Demographics Help Drive 72 Percent of Companies' Clinical Strategies

"Know the Patient" Strategies Lay the Groundwork for Clinical Recruitment and Retention Success, Says Cutting Edge Information

Research Triangle Park, NC - August 30, 2010 - Patient recruitment is not the first step in a clinical ...

Disclosure of Physician Payments Highlights Need for Fair-Market Value Strategy

FMV Compensation Trends Point Way to Strengthen Endangered Thought Leader Relationships, Cutting Edge Information Finds

Research Triangle Park, NC - August 16, 2010 - Johnson & Johnson is the latest drug development company to pub...

New Boston Office Offers Rapid Consulting Support for Biopharmaceutical Companies

Cutting Edge Information Opens New Office for Life Science Clients

Durham, NC and Boston, MA - August 9, 2010 - Cutting Edge Information, a specialized business intelligence provider serving the Life Science industry, announced th...

Counter-Generics Strategies to Defend Patents Require Flexibility

Brand Teams Protect Their Products with an Average of Five Distinct Strategies

Research Triangle Park, NC - 8/4/10 - Successful pharmaceutical and biotechnology product teams are finding that spreading their bets across multiple s...

Health Economics Spending Increases 45 percent in Emerging Markets, 8 percent in the US

Organizational Buy-in Still a Challenge Despite Growing Figures

Research Triangle Park - August 4, 2010 - Pharmacoeconomics spending is increasing by eight percent this year in the United States, but winning company buy-in remains...

MSL Leaders Factor Number of Thought Leader Relationships and Brands Heavily

New Study Provides Benchmarks and Best Practices to Build Medical Science Liaison Teams from the Ground Up

Research Triangle Park, NC - July 14, 2010 - The two most important factors that biopharmaceutical companies consider as th...

Outsourcing of Medical Information Call Centers Varies Depending on Brand Size

Time since launch also correlates to choice between internal or outsourced call center

RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, NC - 7/6/10 - Pharmaceutical companies vary in their decision to stay in-house versus outsourcing medical information c...

Drug Companies Need Counter-Generics Strategies 10 Years Before Patent Expiration

New Study Provides Defense Recommendations

Research Triangle Park, NC, 6/23/10 - Drug research companies are strengthening their task forces to protect the patents for their products, but planning far enough in advance of patent e...

Measuring Drug Safety ROI is Difficult, but Feasible

Drug Safety and Pharmacovigilance teams rarely, if ever, fully communicate their value to the larger organization

RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, NC - 6/17/10 - Communicating return on investment (ROI) is a low priority for many drug safe...

Health Economics in Emerging Markets: Shifting Focus From Haggling to Health Outcomes

RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, NC - 6/14/10 - Life science companies that hope to succeed in Emerging Markets must change the dialogue of negotiations to focus on positive health outcomes ROI rather than getting mired in short-term pricing wars, accordin...

MSL Performance Measurement an Ongoing Challenge

Evaluating KOL Relationships Helps Quantify Program Goals

RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, NC - 6/10/10 - Biopharmaceutical companies often struggle to measure the performance of their medical science liaisons (MSLs), reports business inte...

Drug Safety Teams Opening Lines of Communication with FDA

Previously Taboo, the Need for Greater Communication Is Now Seen by Both Regulators and Industry

RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, NC - 5/26/10 - A growing number of Drug Safety teams are seeking greater communication with the Food and Drug...

Drug Safety Outsourcing Requires Careful Scrutiny of Pros and Cons

New Study Analyzes Data to Identify Factors Driving Decision-Making for Drug Safety and Pharmacovigilance Functions

RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, NC - May 25, 2010 - A new research study shows that the decision to outsource pharmacovigi...

Drug Safety Budgets Must be Defended, ROI Measured

New Study Sees Drug Safety and Pharmacovigilance Team Resources Stabilize Around Emerging Benchmarks

RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK - 5/19/10 - Drug safety and pharmacovigilance teams play a critical role before, during and after a produc...

Increase KOL Communication to Lessen Impact from Sunshine Act, Research Finds

RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, NC - 5/6/10 - With the passage of the Physician Payment Sunshine Act, shrinking pools of key opinion leaders (KOLs) are likely to continue drying up, says business intelligence firm Cutting Edge Information (

Antidiabetic Market to Grow 70 Percent by 2015

Cutting Edge Information Launches Research Package to Strengthen Diabetes Portfolios

RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, NC - 5/3/10 - The market for diabetes drugs will expand about 70% by 2015, according to forecasting research from consult...

New Study Identifies Opportunities for Drug Companies to Measure MSL Performance

Research Recommends Surveying KOLs

RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, NC - 4/29/10 - Medical science liaison teams have an opportunity to measure and improve their performance by surveying thought leaders on their performance, according to a...

What is the Real Definition of KOL Fair-Market Value?

RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, NC - 4/15/10 - "Fair-market value" is a term used to describe compensation paid to key opinion leaders (KOL) by drug makers. Defining what's fair, however, is often a challenging exercise.

The 2003 guidelines set ...

Drug Companies Embrace Proactive Approach to Transparency

Cutting Edge Information Declares Series of New Disclosure Laws Not Yet Over

RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, NC - 4/12/10 - The wave of pharmaceutical transparency laws has not yet crested, according to research from Cutting Edge Informat...

Patient Communication ROI is Major Opportunity for Life Science Brand Teams

Study Explores Performance Measurement in Patient Education

RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, NC - 4/6/10 - Patient outreach and education has become one of the most important channels for drug and device companies to communicate product va...

Despite Patent Challenges, Emerging Markets Offer Pharma Growth Opportunities

RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, NC - 4/5/10 - US and European drug companies are increasingly turning to emerging markets to stimulate growth. The transition is a challenging one, though, and one of the most frustrating obstacles involves protection of pa...

For Pharma, Early Communication Between Clinical and Marketing Teams Crucial to Portfolio Planning

Study Highlights Strategies that Bridge the R&D and Marketing Gap

RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, NC, 3/22/10 - For drug companies, integrating early-stage clinical work with long-term marketing goals is a tough task. When significant gap...

Drug Companies Increase Interactions Between Speaker Program Attendees and Company Reps

Study Showcases Strategies for Driving Attendance at Promotional Events

RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, NC, 3/16/10 - According to a recent study by Cutting Edge Information, pharma companies have shifted the focus of their promotional sp...

Pharma Market Research Managers Reevaluate Vendor Relationships

Study Investigates Vendor Management

RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, NC - 3/8/10 - Relationships may be everything in business - and regular reviews of those relationships shouldn't be ignored.

In the life sciences industry, mar...

75 Percent of Drug Companies Formally Manage Investigator-Initiated Trials

Data Identifies Key Principles for IIT Success

RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, NC - 3/2/10 - Investigator-initiated trials (IITs) provide companies with clinical data to expand scientific understanding of their drugs and reap a number of ...