Interesting article on PharmaExec.com:  
Earlier this month, Pfizer announced that Kathryn Metcalfe would take on the position of vice president of corporate reputation and policy communications—locking up the final position of its new communications triumvirate.
Reporting to Chief Communications Officer Sally Susman (who, in turn, reports directly to CEO Jeffrey Kindler), Metcalfe faces the daunting task of [...]

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Keith Ferrazzi, author of Never Eat Alone: And Other Secrets to Success, One Relationship at a Time, publishes a email newsletter periodically that includes helpful business tips.  His most recent edition is particulary poignant to the current employment environment:

Did you know that in 1777, there was an effort to force George Washington [...]

“Life is a tragedy for those who feel and a comedy for those who think.”

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Almost two-thirds of US doctors either ban drug reps or require them to make appointments. The bad news comes from the twice-a-year survey of doctors conducted by SK&A and reported by PharmaExec.com.
Between June and December 2008, the percentage of docs who require appointments rose from 31.4 percent to 38.5 percent. The number that [...]

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Pharma outsourcing lowers costs but has significant downsides, according to the New England Journal of Medicine (and reported by the New York Times).
According to the NY Times, an article about the globalization of clinical trials published in The New England Journal of Medicine ”raises questions about the ethics and the science of increasingly conducting studies outside [...]