Pharmalot... Pharmalittle... Good Morning

Top of the morning to you. A brilliant sun is shining over the Pharmalot corporate campus this morning as we scurry about to begin another busy day. And there is much to do now that we have tended to the short people and the official mascots - phone calls, meetings, R&D and those never-ending deadlines. We trust you relate. So please join us for that mandatory cup of stimulation and a look at some interesting items. Hope your day goes well and do stay in touch. We are all ears when it comes to fascinating developments...

Teva In Talks To Buy South Korea's Handok Pharma (Globes)

EU OKs Bristol And Astra Diabetes Drug (Reuters)

Inflammation Gene Defect Linked To Alzheimer's In Study (Bloomberg News)

Promising HCV Combo Drug May Not See Light Of Day (MedPage Today)

Row Flares At WHO Over Fight Against Counterfeit Medicines (Reuters)

Teva And AstraZeneca Eye Amarin For Takeover (Calcalist)

Generic Legislation Heads To Canadian Parliament (Globe and Mail)

For Pfizer, Xeljanz Was About Luck, Money And Endurance (The Day)

Glaxo and Pfizer HIV Drug Helped Hard-To-Treat Patients In Study (Bloomberg News)

EDITOR'S NOTE: Please check this post for updates

morning coffee pic thx to chichacha on flickr

9 Comments

Nov 15, 2012 - 11:40am
Openly admitting to making *innocent* people suffer at Aetna:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/11/15/aetna-ceo-mark-bertolini-fiscal-cliff-layoffs-negative-tax-rate_n_2136246.html?utm_hp_ref=business

Nov 15, 2012 - 12:21pm
Repeal of Obamacare would have prevented layoffs. Millions of small business employers are dropping laying off people to gey below the 50 employee level fir the insurance mandate. Large companies will pay the fine gor not insuring workers since it is cheaper than insurance. Massive layoffs to continue all around until Barry has 100% of us on Medicaid.
Nov 15, 2012 - 6:33pm
@oii - give it a rest - like Big Pharma ever did anything other than tell the President what to do...as I said before, I don't whip the slaves when I'm in a bad mood...
Nov 15, 2012 - 6:38pm
Large corporations are first to the trough, as we all know. Too bad they want to have their cake and eat it, too - squeezing instead of valuing their workers. Talk about image problems - how about all the CEOs openly threatening layoffs if their employees didn't vote for Romney.
Nov 15, 2012 - 8:12pm
It's a mental disorder - Ideologically Induced Insanity.

Or "III".

Hard to deliver the diagnosis FTF, though...

ay ay ay Spanish paralinguistic feature of communication. Employed when no words are capable of conveying the frustration, anger or general absurdity of the situation.

Nov 15, 2012 - 8:28pm
dz, personally I don't give a damn. I have a gold plated health plan and my concierge doctor is on speed dial 24/7. Let the proletariat in the Medicaid mills suffer at the hands of the poorly trained FMGS who will work for pennies on the dollar, while Doc and I swap stories at his club or mine. As Vonnegut said, you get what you pay for in this world.
Nov 15, 2012 - 9:01pm
Jim,-it it wasn't a threat- It was a self-fulfilling prophecy, to be played out in living color on your TV sets over the next four years. Start lining up for your SNAP cards. Welcome to Food Stamp Nation.
Nov 16, 2012 - 12:18pm
@oii - not giving a damn about anyone else means you are deficient in the management skills necessary to lead the multi-billion $$$$, global biz of "health care" for the human species into the 21st century and beyond. There is a set number of humans to be left alive to service the 1%, isn't there? Granted, this epic of *disposable* is easy to manage to get down to the theoretical one billion, eventually, as the Monty Python skit showed...

Look at it this way - instead of needing to convince everyone of the benefits of a Tuskagee Experiment - ie. can't learn any way other than to let the disease run its course without treatment - you could realize the scientific value in stalking the uninsured to observe how their diabetes and addictions and viral infections and TB run their course without treatment. So a secret collection of that occult-like, or is it cult-like?, data at those Medicaid centers is snap crackle pop easypeasy to do with the billion $$$$ spy infrastructure. Everyone with a CHase-bank issued food assistance card will be observed for the scientific value (study the untreated disease).

See, you lost your touch for the *biz* by not giving a damn about anyone else...

Nov 16, 2012 - 6:41pm
Dz, I am a graduate of the Glengarry Glen Ross School of Management. Alec Baldwin was my major professor. I have inculcated the lessons he taught me in my dealings with my subordinates. Here are a couple of video lessons that have served me well over my career:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=fvwp&NR=1&v=r6Lf8GtMe4M

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AO_t7GtXO6w&feature=fvwrel