It’s that time of year, when some thoughts turn to sugar plum fairies and others to the J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference – or JPM#13 as it’s now widely known. Before you pop the cork on another New Year, however, it’s…
Category Archives: Biotechnology
FDA’s Confusing Action Against Burzynski – What Does it Really Mean?
November 6, 2012 – 4:07 pm
Last month the FDA’s Office of Prescription Drug Promotion (OPDP) issued a warning letter to the Burzynski Research Institute Inc. and the Burzynski Clinic regarding claims made for its antineoplastons A10 and AS2-1 injections that violate the Federal Food, Drug,…
The Times They Are A-Changin’
October 15, 2012 – 1:15 pm
Kudos to the folks at Biotechnology Industry Organization (BIO) for selecting the industry’s “hot button” issues for panel discussions at the annual BIO Investor Forum (BIF) just concluded in San Francisco. In years past it has been my experience that…
What Global Financial Crisis? Capital Markets Back Biotechs
October 3, 2012 – 11:19 am
It is that time of year again when we take the pulse of the industry at the close of the third quarter. Overall we find that it is performing well, more so for public biotechs than private ones. Despite the…
Life Isn’t as Sweet as it May Seem in Biotech’s C-Suites
September 18, 2012 – 5:12 pm
Biotechnology is an idiosyncratic industry in which some executives can stake their careers on the pursuit of orphan drugs that, at best, will offer only limited opportunity for corporate profits and investors returns, while addressing the usually unmet needs of…
Where’s Rube Goldberg When You Need Him?
August 8, 2012 – 10:36 am
What’s the difference between Congress and a Rube Goldberg contraption?
Is it Better to Forgive and Pharm-merge?
August 6, 2012 – 4:26 pm
Aug. 5 was International Forgiveness Day, and the founding organization of this annual effort, Worldwide Forgiveness Alliance (WFA), says in its mission statement that a goal is to promote and publicize the research findings that show forgiveness creates better health,…
The Pharm-eleon is Shedding its Pharma-saurus Skin Again
July 30, 2012 – 2:38 pm
If the big pharmas are indeed dinosaurs, they have learned to do what their predecessors could not: survive!
Venter, Watson Warm Up for Clash of the Titans
July 10, 2012 – 8:27 am
DUBLIN ‑ Europe’s biggest scientific carnival is pitching its tent beside the River Liffey this week. Dublin is playing host to the Euroscience Open Forum (ESOF) 2012 meeting and, thereby, assumes the mantle of Europe’s City of Science for the…
BioWorld’s Biotech Summer Reading List Plumbs the Classics, BioEthics & Life’s Simple Pleasures
July 6, 2012 – 11:42 am
With the 2012 BIO International Convention behind us and the Fourth of July signaling summer vacation season in earnest, thoughts turn to visions of sun, sand and afternoons lounging in a deck chair. Again this year, BioWorld polled biotech execs,…
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