Relsys, Hesperion, Avandia

News Briefs

May 23, 2007

By info@clinpage.com

Life sciences firm AAIPharma is expanding in South America, purchasing the contract research organization (CRO) Instituto de Pesquisa Clinica in Sao Paulo, Brazil. AAIPharma already has CRO operations in Argentina and Peru. “Expanding AAIPharma’s presence in Brazil is important for…

OmniComm, online courses

News Briefs

May 21, 2007

By info@clinpage.com

Pfizer’s Jeffrey Kindler has begun spring cleaning. The company announced the search for a replacement for a 30-year insider, John LaMattina, head of R&D, and the company’s CFO, Alan Levin. Insiders are being considered. But the Wall Street Journal speculates…

Electronic Health Records at DIA

Miners? Scientists? You Decide

April 03, 2007

By Mark Uehling

There are great hopes but more than a little uncertainty around whether the pharmaceutical industry will ever have the technical means or the political latitude to mine troves of data in electronic health records. Some people point to pilot projects…