Pharmaceutical & Biotechnology

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Considering a career in pharma, biotech or medical-devices sales? Here’s what to know before targeting one of these areas as a prospective sales rep.

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Vitae Pharmaceuticals links up with Boehringer Ingelheim for 2nd R&D area: Often, what is billed as a $300 million strategic partnership between Big Pharma and a small drug developer winds up in an amicable split years down the road with substantially less cash having changed hands.
That’s what makes yesterday’s announcement by Fort Washington’s Vitae Pharmaceuticals Inc. and Germany’s Boehringer Ingelheim so interesting. The two agreed to team up on new treatments for Alzheimer’s disease.
The deal comes 20 months after the same two companies agreed to collaborate on diabetes medicines.
Wyeth accused of overcharging for drug: WASHINGTON - The Justice Department yesterday accused Wyeth, one of the nation's biggest drugmakers, of cheating Medicaid programs out of hundreds of millions of dollars by overcharging for a stomach-acid drug.

Mammogram guidelines spark debate over health bill: Lawmakers broke along party lines on a new aspect of the health care debate Sunday as a former National Institutes of Health chief urged women to ignore guidelines that delay the start of breast cancer screenings.
Former NIH chief: Ignore new mammogram guideline: The former director of the National Institutes of Health is advising women to ignore new guidelines that delay the start of routine mammogram testing for breast cancer.
Tamiflu-resistant swine flu cluster reported in NC: Four North Carolina patients at a single hospital tested positive for a type of swine flu that is resistant to Tamiflu, health officials said Friday.
CDC: Swine flu cases seem to be dropping in US: Health officials say swine flu cases appear to declining throughout most of the U.S., but the specter of Thanksgiving gatherings makes it hard to predict what will happen next.