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Decision Resources
For almost three decades, Decision Resources has provided in-depth research on the trends, emerging developments, and market potential of the drug industry. Large pharmaceutical companies as well as startup biotechs turn to Decision Resources for the information they need to license, market, and compete. The privately owned company offers research publications, advisory services, and consulting designed to help clients shape strategy, allocate resources, and master their chosen markets. Using both primary and secondary resources, their highly credentialed in-house staff studies surveys and data, and conduct interviews with physicians to determine the status of a variety of diseases and drugs. By more...
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The Pricing and Reimbursement Environment for Immune Disease Therapies
By: Decision Resources
Introduction
Drug therapies for immune disorders span an enormous price range—from a few cents per day to tens of thousands
of dollars per year. Not surprisingly, payers impose restrictions on the use of the most
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6/25/2009
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Special Report: 2009 Chartbook of International Pharmaceutical Prices
By: Decision Resources
Introduction
Payers in all countries are increasing their pressure on manufacturers to cut prices. But prescription drug pricing
and reimbursement policies vary markedly among the leading pharmaceutical markets, so, to best determine
pricing, pharmaceutical companies
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6/23/2009
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Opportunities in Menopausal Treatments: Will New Therapies Overtake Hormone Replacement?
By: Decision Resources
Introduction
For decades, the efficacy of hormone replacement therapy (HRT) for some of menopause’s most
troublesome symptoms eliminated any incentive to develop new approaches to treatment. However,
data questioning the safety of estrogen-containing therapies have
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6/20/2009
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Key Trends Fueling the Boom in Genetic Testing
By: Decision Resources
Introduction
“Progress” aptly describes the expanding field of genetic testing. The field is more than finding linkages of
genes with diseases: it encompasses technologies that have made it easier to quickly and more efficiently discover
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6/15/2009
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SPECIAL REPORT: Understanding Treatment Dynamics and Needs in Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis
By: Decision Resources
Introduction
Although interviewed thought leaders acknowledge that available biological therapies have greatly
improved treatment of juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA)—the most common rheumatic disease
in children—they do not hesitate to point out unmet needs and remaining
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6/12/2009
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New Strategies in Academic-Industry Collaborations
By: Decision Resources
Introduction
Major pharmaceutical companies are showing increased interest in directly sponsoring academic
research to access innovation and fill dwindling pipelines. Recent agreements involve higher levels
of collaboration and funding, are broader in scope, and focus
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6/11/2009
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Mega-Mergers: Executing Change in the Pharma Industry
By: Decision Resources
Introduction
If consolidation is so advantageous for boosting a pharma company to a new level of productivity, why has
Pfizer engaged in not just one but three mega-mergers in the past ten years: $92.3 billion
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6/5/2009
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Biopharma Quarter: Key Trends and Events of the First Quarter of 2009
By: Decision Resources
Introduction
No Bear Stearns, no Lehman Brothers, no Chrysler, no humiliating hat-in-hand audiences with Congress. The
biopharma industry has not seen one of its leaders tumble in the way that the financial and automotive industries
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6/4/2009
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The Immune/Inflammatory Pipeline: A Strategic Review
By: Decision Resources
Introduction
The current immune/inflammatory pipeline is over 375 drugs strong, with approximately 250 companies involved in these agents’ development. Yet, despite this robust pipeline size, Decision Resources analysts do not believe that any one agent
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5/28/2009
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Dealmaking and Industry Outlook: Geriatric Diseases
By: Decision Resources
Introduction
Rising Medicare costs driven by the aging baby boomers will, within the next few years, propel public national health expenditures in the United States above private national health expenditures for the first time ever.
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5/21/2009
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SPECIAL REPORT: Riding the Biotech Economic Tsunami - Surfing to Safety or Wipeout?
By: Decision Resources
Introduction
In 2008, the global financial crisis radically altered the dynamics of the biotech industry; many weaker companies will fail. However, private investment in biotech continued, and pharmaceutical companies invested significant sums in acquiring and
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5/20/2009
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Dealmaking and Industry Outlook: Antivirals
By: Decision Resources
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The infamous mutability of viruses has long challenged antiviral drug developers, but complete genome sequences are now known for thousands of viruses, and the viral proteins encoded in these sequences are being used as
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5/7/2009
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Immune/Inflammatory Disease: Early-Stage R&D Technologies and Dealmaking
By: Decision Resources
Introduction
Today’s leading autoimmune/inflammatory disease drugs are blockbusters, but what are the remaining unmet needs and next opportunities? Dealmaking patterns indicate that Big Pharma continues to look to small technology companies to tap opportunities
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5/6/2009
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Strategic Overview of Spondyloarthropathies: Tapping the Market Opportunity of Niche Immune Diseases
By: Decision Resources
Introduction
A trio of niche immune diseases have gained drug developers’ attention after a period of strong sales
growth. Treatment of these diseases, the spondyloarthropathies (SpAs), was revolutionized by the
availability of TNF-alpha inhibitors and
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4/30/2009
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Market Access, Pricing, and Reimbursement News in the First Quarter of 2009
By: Decision Resources
Introduction
The fourth quarter of 2009 was characterized by a wide range of new pricing and reimbursement initiatives in the United States but more focused measures in most of the world’s other leading pharmaceutical markets.
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4/30/2009
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The Cardiovascular Disease Pipeline: A Strategic Review
By: Decision Resources
Introduction
The robust and diverse cardiovascular disease (CVD) R&D pipeline is evidence of companies’awareness that these diseases remain leading causes of death worldwide, and that the chronic nature of many CVDs offers significant commercial opportunity.
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4/27/2009
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Nucleic Acid Testing: A Vehicle for Advancing Personalized Medicine
By: Decision Resources
Introduction
One of the fastest-growing segments of molecular diagnostics is nucleic acid testing (NAT). NAT is central to
the life sciences industry, to improved healthcare, and to personalized medicine. Tools based on NAT are used
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4/17/2009
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Dealmaking and Industry Outlook: Therapeutic Antibodies and Vaccines for Cancer
By: Decision Resources
Introduction
Targeted cancer therapies have achieved phenomenal growth, and many MAb-based immunotherapies are blockbusters
or mega-blockbusters. This market success is due not only to these MAbs’ ability to treat unmet need in
many cancers but
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4/9/2009
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Formulary Decision Making in the United States
By: Decision Resources
Introduction
The U.S. pharmaceutical industry is facing the worst combination of pressures in memory—the most severe
recession in decades, a dramatic slowdown in pharmaceutical sales, a new U.S. administration intent on slashing
healthcare costs, and
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3/31/2009
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Insights into Platform Technology and Early-Stage Pipeline Mergers and Acquisitions
By: Decision Resources
Introduction
The continuing activity in mergers and acquisitions (M&As) involving biotechnology companies
refl ects the industry’s growth and maturity. Biotech companies are increasingly merging for strategic
reasons that include business, clinical, and technological considerations. In
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3/30/2009
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Drug Benefit Trends in the United States
By: Decision Resources
Introduction
After many years of vigorous growth, the world’s dominant pharmaceutical market faces unprecedented challenges
in the near future. This report, which features 27 fi gures and tables, analyzes recent drug benefi t trends
and
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3/30/2009
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Know the Other "Omics": Exploring Drug and Diagnostics Development Through Proteomics
By: Decision Resources
Introduction
Genomics has paved the way for its cousin, proteomics, to secure its share of the “omics” hype. Researchers
look to proteomics to deliver on the promise to assess the viability of drug targets for
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3/30/2009
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Biopharma Quarter: Key Trends and Events of the Fourth Quarter of 2008
By: Decision Resources
Introduction
2008 came to a close amid political transition in the world’s largest pharmaceutical market and economic upheaval
in all of the world’s markets. Our review of key events that occurred in the fourth quarter
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3/30/2009
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Will Emerging Agents Disrupt the Psoriatic Arthritis Market?
By: Decision Resources
Introduction
Surveyed rheumatologists are open to prescribing emerging agents for psoriatic arthritis (PsA)
patients upon approval. That is good news for the PsA patients who fail to respond to TNF-á
inhibitors; treatment options are limited
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3/27/2009
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Dealmaking and Business Strategies in the Age of Personalized Medicine
By: Decision Resources
Introduction
The promise of personalized medicine is having a profound impact on the healthcare industry. It promises to
change the way healthcare is delivered and how drugs and diagnostics are developed. Pharma companies are
still
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3/26/2009
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