The pharmaceutical subsidy scheme in Australia works in the public interest by keeping prices low while assuring access to drugs across most of the drug classes. By separating the approval to market drugs from the decision to subsidise them, the Commonwealth is able to take advantage of its position--to 'free-ride' on research and development expenditure in other countries. The first part of th...

1 Department of Cellular Biology and Anatomy, LSU Health Sciences Center Shreveport, LA 71103, USA 2Department of Pathology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, AL 35233, USA 3 Immunology and Inflammation, Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals, Inc., Ridgefield, CT 06877, USA 4Environmental Health and Disease Laboratory, University of South Carolina, Columbia, NC 27709, USA 5National Primate Re...

The current regulation of new pharmaceuticals is inefficient because it demands arbitrary amounts of information, the type of information demanded is not relevant to decision-makers and the same standards of evidence are applied across different technologies. Bayesian decision theory and an analysis of the value of both perfect and sample information is used to consider the efficient regulation...

Production of recombinant proteins generates a variety of process-related impurities. The multistep manufacturing processes may introduce many potential contaminants into the final pharmaceutical products. These residual impurities and contaminants can potentially impact the protein stability significantly. In this short review, the authors intend to discuss major sources and types of residual ...

Non-traditional teaching approaches are not recent innovations in the field of continuing medical and professional development; however, there is a lack of employing such methods in our context. The reasons could include lack of awareness, recognition and overlapping and adoption of these approaches, peculiarly academic detailing, by the pharmaceuticals. Nevertheless these methods have proven t...