Pharma Versus Farmer

Good pharma? Bad pharma? Better pharma.

Pharma Workgroup

A. People: Project Leader: Ana Belén Elgoyhen, Ph.D., Instituto de Investigaciones en Ingeniería Genética y Biología Molecular, Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas, Buenos Aires, Argentina. Principal Investigators: Clinical Trials • Otosul-Otorrinolaringología, Volta Redonda, Brazil, Andreia Azevedo, M.D. • Otosul-Otorrinolaringología, Volta Redonda, Brazil, Ricardo Figui...

Farmer Ted Goes Natural

We’ve all been given a problem in a calculus class remarkably similar to the following one: Farmer Ted is building a chicken coop. He decides he can spare 190 square feet of his land for the coop, which will be built in the shape of a rectangle. Being a practical man, Farmer Ted wants to spend as little as possible on the chicken wire for the fence. What dimensions should he make the chicken co...

Big Pharma (The Play)

A nyone who has experienced the assault of the pharmaceutical industry's marketing campaigns would appreciate Jennifer Berry's one-person play Big Pharma: The Rise of the Anti-Depressant Drug Industry and the Loss of a Generation. Since the mid-1990s, spending on drug promotion has grown steadily, reaching $21 billion in 2002. Berry explores the fallout of this expanded marketing blitz through ...

The Pharma Innovation

Mouth dissolving tablets (MDTs) have received ever-increasing demand during the last decade, and the field has become a rapidly growing area in the pharmaceutical industry. Upon introduction into the mouth, these tablets dissolve or disintegrate in the mouth in the absence of additional water for easy administration of active pharmaceutical ingredients. The popularity and usefulness of the form...